MODELLING GROWTH CURVES IN A NONDESCRIPT ITALIAN CHICKEN BREED: AN OPPORTUNITY TO IMPROVE GENETIC AND FEEDING STRATEGIES

Modelling Growth Curves in a Nondescript Italian Chicken Breed: an Opportunity to Improve Genetic and Feeding Strategies

Growth, known as the relation between liveweight and age, is explained mathematically by functions that have parameters with biological meaning.These parameters are used to describe growth pattern over time and to estimate the expected weight of animals at specific ages.Animal growth generally follows a sigmoidal pattern and several nonlinear funct

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OPINION GIVING SERVICES AS A SOURCE OF CONSUMER INFORMATION

The goal of the article is to determine the place and role of opinion giving services in consumer behaviours.The discussion is conducted around the thesis saying that in the information society, opinion giving services constitute an important source of information for Sleep Support consumers in the process of selecting and purchasing both products

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Peering into peer-review at GigaScience

Abstract Fostering and promoting more open and transparent science is one of the goals of GigaScience.One of the ways we have been doing this is by throwing light Shipping-Fee on the peer-review process and carrying out open peer-review as standard.In this editorial, we provide our rationale for undertaking this policy, give examples of our positiv

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