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Energy allocation and behaviour in the growing broiler chicken
Broiler chickens are increasingly at the forefront of global meat production but the consequences of fast growth and selection for an increase in body mass on bird health are an ongoing concern for industry and consumers. To better understand the implications of selection we evaluated energetics and behaviour over the 6-week hatch-to-slaughter developmental period in a commercial broiler. The effect of posture on resting metabolic rate becomes increasingly significant as broilers grow, as standing became more energetically expensive than sitting. The proportion of overall metabolic rate accounted for by locomotor behaviour decreased over development, corresponding to declining activity levels, mean and peak walking speeds. These data are consistent with the inference that broilers allocate energy to activity within a constrained metabolic budget and that there is a reducing metabolic scope for exercise throughout their development. Comparison with similarly sized galliforms reveals that locomotion is relatively energetically expensive in broilers
Water quality and communities associated with macrophytes in a shallow water-supply reservoir on an aquaculture farm
Spectral entropy of early-life distress calls as an iceberg indicator of chicken welfare
The local iron age pottery from selected strata at Tel Yin'am, eastern lower Galilee, Israel
Tel Yin’am and nearby Khirbet Beit Gan are the only excavated sites in the
Yavne’el Valley, which constituted part of an ancient international highway that
connected the hinterland of the Hauran (modern-day Syria) with the Mediterranean
coast. As one of the few multi-occupational, small rural sites excavated in the Eastern
Lower Galilee, Tel Yin’am, which was occupied intermittently from the Neolithic
period to the Roman period (6500 BCE-325 CE), provides a critical link in the
occupation history and material culture of northern (modern-day) Israel.
Concentrating on critical selected Iron Age strata (1200-732 BC), this study
focuses on the mostly unpublished domestic pottery assemblages, subjecting the
various ceramic forms to classification and development analysis, and comparing
them to contemporary pottery assemblages from proximate and distant, rural and
urban sites in Cisjordan and Transjordan. Through diachronic and synchronic
analyses, I succeeded in: 1) developing a picture of the ceramic history of domestic
types at Tel Yin’am during the Iron Age; 2) providing both relative and absolute dates
for this ceramic assemblage; 3) placing the assemblage into the broader ceramic
context of the Iron Age in northern Cisjordan and Transjordan; 4) highlighting the
important role of roads and ancient highways and how they impacted on the history of
Tel Yin’am and its material culture in the Iron Age, thereby closing a gap in the
knowledge of the history of rural life and culture in the Yavne’el Valley in the Iron Age; and 5) gaining an understanding of the approximately 500-year history of
consistent and changing points of contact between Tel Yin’am and other sites that lay
along the highways traversing the northern Lower Galilee.Middle Eastern Studie
Ferromagnetic Kitaev interaction and the origin of large magnetic anisotropy in α-RuCl3
-RuCl is drawing much attention as a promising candidate Kitaev
quantum spin liquid. However, despite intensive research efforts, controversy
remains about the form of the basic interactions governing the physics of this
material. Even the sign of the Kitaev interaction (the bond-dependent
anisotropic interaction responsible for Kitaev physics) is still under debate,
with conflicting results from theoretical and experimental studies. The
significance of the symmetric off-diagonal exchange interaction (referred to as
the term) is another contentious question. Here, we present resonant
elastic x-ray scattering data that provides unambiguous experimental
constraints to the two leading terms in the magnetic interaction Hamiltonian.
We show that the Kitaev interaction () is ferromagnetic, and that the
term is antiferromagnetic and comparable in size to the Kitaev
interaction. Our findings also provide a natural explanation for the large
anisotropy of the magnetic susceptibility in -RuCl as arising from
the large term. We therefore provide a crucial foundation for
understanding the interactions underpinning the exotic magnetic behaviours
observed in -RuCl.Comment: 5 pages, two-column, 3 figure