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International genetic evaluations for feed intake in dairy cattle through the collation of data from multiple sources
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Coffey, M. P., Løvendahl, P., Wang, Z., de Haas, Y., Krattenmacher, N., Berry, D. P., Crowley, J. J., Pryce, J. E., Veerkamp, R. F., Weigel, K., Macdonald, K., Spurlock, D.
Feed represents a large proportion of the variable costs in dairy production systems. The omission of feed intake measures explicitly from national dairy cow breeding objectives is predominantly due to a lack of information from which to make selection decisions. However, individual cow feed...
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Fall 2014
Confinement is known to suppress order in condensed matter. This is well exemplified in phase transitions such as freezing, as well as the superfluid transition in liquid helium, which occur at lower temperatures in confinement than in the bulk. We provide in this thesis a demonstration of a...