Modelling Nutrient Digestion and Utilisation in Farm Animals

Front Matter....Pages 1-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
A generic framework for simulating agricultural production systems....Pages 13-21
Population based growth curve analysis: a comparison between models based on ordinary or stochastic differential equations implemented in a nonlinear mixed effect framework....Pages 22-30
Regression procedures for relationships between random variables....Pages 31-39
Extracting biologically meaningful features from time-series measurements of individual animals: towards quantitative description of animal status....Pages 40-48
Turning a cow into a goat with a teleonomic model of lifetime performance....Pages 49-54
Techniques to facilitate metabolic modeling with reference to dairy cows....Pages 55-62
Implementation of a genetic algorithm for optimization within the Cornell Net Carbohydrate and Protein System framework....Pages 63-71
Assessing and optimizing the performance of a mechanistic mathematical model of the sheep mammary gland....Pages 72-82
A new development in pig growth modelling....Pages 83-90
Identifiability and accuracy: a closer look at contemporary contributions and changes in these vital areas of mathematical modelling....Pages 91-99
Front Matter....Pages 101-101
Modelling short-term feeding behaviour....Pages 103-111
A new Nordic structure evaluation system for diets fed to dairy cows: a meta analysis....Pages 112-120
Modelling within-day variability in feeding behaviour in relation to rumen pH: application to dairy goats receiving an acidogenic diet....Pages 121-129
Modelling of the effects of heat stress on some feeding behaviour and physiological parameters in cows....Pages 130-136
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A generic multi-stage compartmental model for interpreting gas production profiles....Pages 139-147
A mechanistic model of pH and gas exchanges in the rumen and its in vitro application....Pages 148-157
Modelling rumen volatile fatty acids and its evaluation on net portal fluxes in ruminants....Pages 158-167
Representing tissue mass and morphology in mechanistic models of digestive function in ruminants....Pages 168-175
Fluctuations in methane emission in response to feeding pattern in lactating dairy cows....Pages 176-180
Prediction of methane production in beef cattle within a mechanistic digestion model....Pages 181-188
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Relationship between passage rate and extrinsic diet characteristics derived from rumen evacuation studies performed with dairy cows....Pages 189-198
Ability of mathematical models to predict faecal output with a pulse dose of an external marker in sheep and goat....Pages 199-206
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
Dynamic modelling of contractile and metabolic properties of bovine muscle....Pages 209-217
An isotope dilution model for partitioning phenylalanine uptake by the liver of lactating dairy cows....Pages 218-224
Modeling the effects of insulin and amino acids on the phosphorylation of mTOR, Akt, and 4EBP1 in mammary cells....Pages 225-232
From metabolisable energy to energy of absorbed nutrients: quantitative comparison of models....Pages 233-242
Development of a heat balance model for cattle under hot conditions....Pages 243-251
An interactive, mechanistic nutrition model to determine energy efficiency of lactating dairy cows....Pages 252-262
The development and evaluation of the Small Ruminant Nutrition System....Pages 263-272
A model of phosphorus metabolism in growing sheep....Pages 273-278
A generic stoichiometric model to analyse the metabolic flexibility of the mammary gland in lactating dairy cows....Pages 279-288
Model development of nutrient utilization to represent poultry growth dynamics: application to the turkey....Pages 289-296
Modelling energy utilization in poultry....Pages 297-305
Model to estimate lysine requirements of broilers....Pages 306-314
Prediction of nellore empty body composition using indirect measurements....Pages 315-323
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Precision feeding can significantly reduce feeding cost and nutrient excretion in growing animals....Pages 327-334
A herd modelling approach to determine the economically and environmentally most interesting dietary amino acid level during the fattening period....Pages 335-346
Evaluation of two feeding strategies with a herd model integrating individual variability....Pages 347-353
SIMBAL: a herd simulator for beef cattle....Pages 354-363
Modelling the impacts of climate change on suckling grass-based systems with the Pasture Simulation Model....Pages 364-374
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The fate of dietary phosphorus in the digestive tract of growing pigs and broilers....Pages 377-385
Modelling the profile of growth in monogastric animals....Pages 386-393
Effects of nutritional strategies on simulated nitrogen excretion and methane emission in dairy cattle....Pages 394-402
A whole farm-model to simulate the environmental impacts of animal farming systems: MELODIE....Pages 403-411
Development and validation of a biophysical model of enteric methane emissions from Australian beef feedlots....Pages 412-420
Back Matter....Pages 421-427