| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
Wallingford, UK ; ; Cambridge, MA, : CABI, c2006
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (343 p.)
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| Disciplina |
636.40015118
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| Altri autori (Persone) |
GousR
MorrisT. R (Trevor Raymond)
FisherC
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| Soggetto topico |
Swine - Mathematical models
Poultry industry - Mathematical models
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| ISBN |
1-280-73625-9
9786610736256
1-84593-108-4
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 An Introduction to Modelling in the Animal Sciences; 2 Scientific Progress and Mathematical Modelling: Different Approaches to Modelling Animal Systems; 3 Basic Concepts Describing Animal Growth and Feed Intake; 4 The Effects of Social Stressors on the Performance of Growing Pigs; 5 Modelling Populations for Purposes of Optimization; 6 Advancements in Empirical Models for Prediction and Prescription; 7 The Problem of Predicting the Partitioning of Scarce Resources during Sickness and Health in Pigs
8 Nutrient Flow Models, Energy Transactions and Energy Feed Systems9 Evaluating Animal Genotypes through Model Inversion; 10 Considerations for Representing Micro-environmental Conditions in Simulation Models for Broiler Chickens; 11 Using Physiological Models to Define Environmental Control Strategies; 12 Modelling Egg Production in Laying Hens; 13 Comparison of Pig Growth Models-the Genetic Point of View; 14 Mechanistic Modelling at the Metabolic Level: a Model of Metabolism in the Sow as an Example; 15 The Place of Models in the New Technologies of Production Systems; Index; A; B; C; D; E
FG; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y
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| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910446339203321 |
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Mechanistic modelling in pig and poultry production [Risorsa elettronica] / edited by R. Gous, T. Morris and C. Fisher
