Diurnal variation in water-soluble carbohydrate contents of pasture affects milk production of dairy cattle: a simulation approach.

The model allowed integration of actual grazing behaviour and diurnal variation in pasture nutrient content to understand and predict differences in MP between grazing treatments. The integration between grazing behaviour and sward characteristics can generate opportunities to achieve greater efficiency in the use of nutrients throughout a grazing dairy syste

The Reliability of Hebb Repetition Learning and its Association with Language and Reading in Adolescents with Intellectual Disabilities

Hebb repetition learning (HRL) refers to neurodevelopmental processes characterised by repeated stimulus exposure without feedback, which result in changes in behaviour and/or responses, e.g., long-term learning of serial order. Here, we investigate effects of HRL on serial order memory. The present research aimed to assess the reliability of new HRL measures and investigate their relationships with language and reading skills (vocabulary, grammar, word reading) in adolescents with intellectual disabilities (ID). A comparison group of children of similar mental age with typical development (TD) was also assessed. ID and TD participants were tested on HRL tasks, evaluating test-retest and split-half reliability. The relationship between HRL and language and reading was analysed after accounting for the influence of mental age and verbal short-term memory. The HRL tasks displayed moderate test-retest (and split-half) reliability, HRL tasks with different stimuli (verbal, visual) were related, and we identified issues with one method of HRL scoring. The planned regression analyses failed to show relationships between HRL and language/reading skills in both groups when mental age, a very strong predictor, was included. However, further exploratory regression analyses without mental age revealed HRL's predictive capabilities for vocabulary in the ID group and reading in the TD group, results which need further investigation and replication. HRL displays promise as a moderately reliable metric and exhibits varied and interpretable predictive capabilities for language and reading skills across groups