Litterbox size preference in domestic cats (Felis catus)     

《Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research》2014,9(2):78-82

The objective of this study was to evaluate the response of healthy housebound domestic cats to the simultaneous provision of 2 litterboxes of differing sizes by recording the average daily frequency of urination and defecation in each box. Forty-three households with 74 privately owned cats were each provided with 2 different-sized plastic containers, with the larger box being 86 cm in length, exceeding the size of commercially available litterboxes. Owners were also provided with an unlimited supply of clumping cat litter and a logbook to record daily urine and fecal deposits in the boxes as they were scooped over a 4-week period. The 2 litterboxes were initially placed at opposite sides of the same room in the owner's home. After 2 weeks, the boxes were emptied completely, refilled with clean clumping litter, and replaced in the opposite location. Results were recorded as simple counts of urine and fecal deposits for each day and each household. Over the 28-day period, there were a total of 5031 urine and fecal deposits in the larger boxes and 3239 urine and fecal deposits in the regular boxes. The effects of phase (days 1-14 vs. 15-28) and box size (regular vs. large) on the number of deposits per cat were evaluated using a linear mixed model. In addition to evaluating phase and box size, the effects of number of cats in the house, their average age, and gender were also evaluated. Urine deposits were significantly more frequent than fecal deposits. Large boxes were preferentially selected over regular boxes in both phases, but this difference was greater in phase 1 than phase 2. Further analysis indicated that there was a location preference during the first 2 days in phase 2, and this effect decreased as the study progressed. Results indicate that most cats show a definite preference for a larger litterbox than is typically available to them in homes and that other factors such as box cleanliness and location may have a compounding influence on this choice.  相似文献   

A MIMD PARALLEL ALGORITHM TO SOLVE TRIDIAGONAL TOEPLITZ LINEAR EQUATIONS     

Chen Siqing Chen Tinghuai Zhou Liuding 《保鲜与加工》1992,(4):21-25

The rank one updating formula and the parallel eliminating algorithm for linear recurrence systems ane combined fo form a MTMD parallel algorithm fo solve tridiagonal Toeplitz Cinear equations. This algorithm has a simple strictire and requires onlty a few storages as well as in-terprocessor communications. There is no special demand on the number of processors in the parallel system. The speedup can come dose to p12 comparing with the LU decomposition method (p is the number of processors). It is worth pointing out that it is proposed algcmthn that considels and organizes the parallel arithmetic in the first order linear ricurrence systems with constant coefficients.  相似文献   

广东省森林土壤养分异质性析因   总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1  

刘晓彤  李海奎  曹磊  张逸如 《北京林业大学学报》2021,43(2):90-101

[目的]分析不同环境因子对森林土壤养分的影响,探讨造成森林土壤养分异质性的原因,为森林经营和森林立地质量评价提供依据.[方法]基于广东省全国森林资源清查土壤调查数据,以有机质(OM)、碱解氮(AN)、有效磷(AP)和速效钾(AK)为因变量,以地理因子、地形因子、土壤因子和林分因子四大类20个变量(10个定性因子,10个...  相似文献   

西伯利亚百合脱毒技术研究     

李巧峡  赵庆芳  马平霞 《北方园艺》2009,(4)

运用茎尖培养、热处理结合茎尖培养、病毒唑结合茎尖培养、热处理加病毒唑结合茎尖培养4种方法,脱除西伯利亚百合品种CMV、LSV和LMoV病毒,分析了4种处理后的成苗率和脱毒率。结果表明：以热处理加病毒唑结合茎尖培养法效果最为明显。  相似文献   

Application of ELISA-based kit for detecting AOZ and determining its clearance in eel tissues     

Laddawan Krongpong  Kunihiko Futami  Takayuki Katagiri  Makoto Endo  Masashi Maita 《Fisheries Science》2008,74(5):1055-1061

Furazolidone, an antibacterial drug that was once widely used in the livestock industry and aquaculture, is now prohibited in numerous countries. It is difficult to detect residual furazolidone because it is readily metabolized in animal tissues but, by using and liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry, its metabolite, 3-amino-2-oxazolidinone (AOZ) can be detected. Here we describe the validity of an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) kit to detect AOZ in Japanese eel Anguilla japonica tissue. ELISA is capable of detecting AOZ at 1.0 μg/kg in an eel sample with excellent accuracy and precision. Our results show that ELISA is suitable for regulatory purposes and for studying the fate of AOZ residues in eel treated with furazolidone. To measure the persistence of AOZ in eel tissues, eels (1.4–6.5g) were immersed in tanks containing 2 and 10 mg furazolidone/L for 3 h, and then maintained in a tank supplying well water for the next 160 days. The half-lives of AOZ, calculated from the linear terminal part of the excretion curve, were 25.0 days in muscle and 21.6 days in liver from fish exposed to 2 mg/L furazolidone. In the eels treated with 10 mg/L furazolidone, by contrast, high levels of AOZ were detected in liver and muscle, but the half-lives of AOZ were similar to those in fish treated with 2 mg/L furazolidone. The half-lives of AOZ in eel tissues were prolonged by the condition of low water temperature.  相似文献   

电子鼻鉴别白酒信号小波去漂移方法     

殷勇  白玉  于慧春  郝银凤  王润博 《农业机械学报》2016,47(11):219-223

为提高电子鼻长期鉴别的稳健性,提出了一种基于小波分析的电子鼻信号去漂移方法。对含漂移信号的电子鼻数据进行小波分解,获得分解系数;构造一种相对偏差阈值滤波函数对小波逼近系数进行阈值处理,获得修正的小波系数;运用小波逆变换对修正后的小波系数进行重构,得到去除漂移或少漂移的电子鼻信号。对6种白酒样本随机生成的5组样本训练集与对应的测试集进行去漂移处理与信号重构,提取去漂移处理前后的电子鼻信号积分值特征,并运用Fisher判别分析(FDA)和BP神经网络分别对5组数据集进行鉴别分析。FDA鉴别结果显示,无论是训练集还是测试集,5组样本的鉴别正确率由去漂移前的最高值45%提升至去漂移后的100%。BP神经网络鉴别结果显示,5组样本的鉴别正确率由去漂移前的最高值31.7%提升至去漂移后的98.3%。这说明所给出的去漂移方法在白酒电子鼻的鉴别中是稳健有效的。同时,也为电子鼻鉴别其他物品提供了一种可借鉴的去漂移方法。  相似文献   

猪排泄地点选择及其对圈栏污染程度的影响     

李以翠  李保明  施正香  周道雷 《农业工程学报》2006,(Z2)

该文论述了影响猪排泄地点的选择和圈栏内污染程度的各种环境(温度、湿度、光、气流速度、垫草)、设备布局(圈栏尺寸、形状、设备相对位置、隔栏方式)、管理(调教、喂料)等因素,并对评价圈栏内污染程度的方法进行探讨。旨在指导科学布置圈栏,将圈栏设计成长窄形,漏缝地板设在短向一侧;并尽量育成和育肥分开饲养,避免在育成阶段饲养面积偏大;通过工程手段实现漏缝地板处和躺卧区在温度和气流速度上的差异,以实现猪群在局部漏缝地板排泄。在生产管理中,避免饲养密度过大;通过通风系统控制圈栏内的温度以及空气污染;转群时进行调教,喂料有规律并对疾病进行及时诊断和治疗,都能降低圈栏污染程度,以实现真正意义的清洁生产。  相似文献   

广西葡萄良种脱毒研究进展     

娄兵海  白先进  陈爱军  白扬  宋雅琴  王博  王明召  张敏  何建军  刘萍 《中国果业信息》2019,48(2)

建立葡萄脱毒技术并繁育和推广葡萄良种脱毒苗木,对于广西葡萄产业的健康可持续发展极为重要。本研究团队在广西最先开展了葡萄脱毒技术研究。目前已建立了10种葡萄主要病毒的RT-PCR检测方法,并建立了热处理结合茎尖培养的葡萄脱毒技术,且已成功对‘阳光玫瑰’葡萄、‘夏黑’葡萄和‘巨峰’葡萄三个优良品种的带毒单株进行了脱毒。研究成果有助于进一步推动广西葡萄产业的健康可持续发展。  相似文献   

虎雪兰玻璃化超低温法脱毒技术的研究     

王玉英  王琴  李枝林  魏全涛  商正蕊  凌青 《北方园艺》2020,(5):61-66

以兰属花卉虎雪兰组培原球茎为试材,采用玻璃化超低温法对兰花病毒脱除进行了研究,以期为虎雪兰玻璃化超低温法脱毒体系的建立提供参考依据。结果表明:在蔗糖浓度0.5 mol·L-1预培养4 d,然后在蔗糖0.6 mol·L-1加载液冰上处理50 min,之后转入PVS2溶液冰上玻璃化处理120 min,再液氮冷冻40 min,37℃水浴解冻3 min,最后卸载液(1/2MS+1.2 mol·L-1蔗糖)卸载20 min,待恢复培养后,原球茎成活率可达到65%以上,随机检测不同处理样品的脱毒率可达97%。  相似文献   

二系杂交水稻制繁种中利用标记辅助去杂技术     

舒庆尧  夏英武  左晓旭  刘贵付 《浙江大学学报(农业与生命科学版)》1996,(1)

在二系杂交水稻种于生产中，由于母本雄性不育不彻底，往往造成自交种子污染；在不育系繁种时，由于与外源花粉串粉杂交或机械混杂，因此难以保证不育系纯度。作者选用叶绿素缺失突变体为模式标记，讨论了标记性状必需具备的条件及其应用方法。最后以一个转绿型白化突变体为例，证明了标记性状对当代及Ｆ＿１杂种优势无负效应，从而证实了这一去杂体系具有一定的应用前景。  相似文献