Raghavendra G Amachawadi,T G Nagaraja
Raghavendra G Amachawadi
Liver abscesses are a bacterial infection, which occurs because of entry, via portal vein, of pyogenic bacteria into the hepatic parenchyma. Liver abscesses are a polymicrobial infection; however, Fusobacterium necrophorum, a ruminal bacter...
Perspectives on the Practical Applications of Systems Thinking and System Dynamics Theory in Beef Practice [0.03%]
系统思考和系统动力学理论在肉牛生产实践中的应用展望
T Robin Falkner,Dale M Grotelueschen,John T Groves
T Robin Falkner
Current Reality of Beef Cattle Veterinary Practice in North America: A Systems Thinking Perspective [0.03%]
北美牛肉兽医实践的现状：系统思维视角下的思考
Dale M Grotelueschen,Rebecca A Funk,John T Groves et al.
Dale M Grotelueschen et al.
Beef cattle veterinarians provide services to the increasingly complex beef industry system. Systems thinking offers pathways to better understand and communicate ranges of issues such as prevailing mental models, importance of match qualit...
How Forces of a Complex Adaptive System Affect Ability to Control Bovine Respiratory Disease in Feeder Cattle [0.03%]
复杂适应系统的力量如何影响育肥牛呼吸系统疾病管控能力
John T Groves,Timothy J Goldsmith,Jaden M Carlson
John T Groves
This chapter provides an introductory look into the practical application of the principals of systems thinking as a methodology to gain deeper understanding of the nature of bovine respiratory disease (BRD) in current North American beef p...
Wellness Management in Beef Feeder Cattle: Changing Mental Models to Support Beneficial Emergent System Behaviors [0.03%]
肉牛饲养福利管理：改变思维模式以支持系统的有益行为
T Robin Falkner
T Robin Falkner
Despite evidence-based "improvements" in animal health products and management, losses to bovine respiratory disease have increased with associated animal wastage, welfare concerns, and antimicrobial use; questioning the fitness of current ...
Halden Clark
Halden Clark
Beef production intensification efforts have included pursuing highly productive genetic lines, increasing herd size, and timing calving season to target marketing opportunities. Changes like these may have incentivized concentration of ani...
Epidemiology's Adoption of System Dynamics is a Natural Extension of Population Thinking [0.03%]
流行病学对系统动力学的采纳是人群思维的自然延伸
David R Smith,Robert W Wills,Kimberly A Woodruff
David R Smith
Epidemiologists have adopted systems thinking as an approach to understanding why health conditions occur in animal populations beyond the knowledge of simple linear relationships. Beef production systems are complex adaptive systems and de...
High-Risk Cattle Management and Stocker Calf Health: Modulation of the Bovine Respiratory Microbiome from a Systems Perspective [0.03%]
从系统角度调控牛呼吸道微生物群以实现高风险肉牛管理与架子牛健康监测
Brent Credille
Brent Credille
Bovine respiratory disease (BRD) affects animals in all segments of the North American beef industry. The segmented nature of the beef industry results in the marketing of cattle that are considered to be at high risk of developing BRD. The...
Brian Vander Ley,John Dustin Loy,Amelia R Woolums
Brian Vander Ley
Throughout history, theories of disease etiology have evolved. These theories of disease etiology, which can also be considered mental models of disease, have been based on associations drawn from careful observation of diseased and healthy...
Jason E Sawyer
Jason E Sawyer
Assessment of sustainability of a system is largely a forecasting problem, in which the likelihood of system persistence must be evaluated. The use of systems thinking and systems analysis provides useful mechanisms for assessing sustainabi...