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Record W655230489

The use of HOBO's in lameness detection in Alberta dairy cows.

2012· dissertation· en· W655230489 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
A.E.J. Brouwers

Bibliographic record

VenueUtrecht University Repository (Utrecht University) · 2012
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldVeterinary
TopicAnimal Behavior and Welfare Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLyingLamenessVeterinary medicineAnimal scienceBiologyMedicineSurgery
DOInot available

Abstract

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Lameness is a major problem in present dairy farming. In order to find whether there are other ways to detect lameness in dairy cows instead of gait scoring, the use of HOBO’s, a brand of accelerometers, as a lameness detection method is investigated. The aim of the project is to determine whether HOBO’s can be used as a more specific and sensitive test method for lameness detection in dairy cows. \nIt is thought that lame cows can be detected based on their lying times, because literature describes that lame cows, compared to sound cows, are more likely to lie down for longer periods of time. This is thought to be due to claw lesions or other problems inducing lameness causing pain when weight is placed on the hoofs during rising and lying down in the stalls. For the same reason it is thought that lame cows have a lower number of lying bouts and the duration of lying bouts are longer. \nThe research was part of a running project named “the lameness and longevity project” and took place in Alberta, Canada. Seventeen farms were visited in this province and beside lying times and lying bout information collected using HOBO’s, gait scores were performed using video images made on the farms. This data was used to test the hypotheses. \nThe analysis showed that cows lying down between 8 and 14 hours a day are not necessarily sound and cows lying down less than 8 hours a day are not necessarily lame cows. Cows lying down over 14 hours a day are more likely to be lame and should be watched closely. Also, corrected for farm, the number of bouts was not lower for lame cows and duration of bouts was not longer for lame cows, as was expected.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.001
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.782
Threshold uncertainty score0.434

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.042
GPT teacher head0.247
Teacher spread0.204 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designObservational
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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