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ArticleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI2021

A Pilot Study Using Accelerometers to Characterise the Licking Behaviour of Penned Cattle at a Mineral Block Supplement.

Gamaliel Simanungkalit, Jamie Barwick, Frances Cowley, Robin Dobos, Roger Hegarty

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Article in Animals : an open access journal from MDPI, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
2.8field-weighted citation impact, top 11% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 19 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Gamaliel SimanungkalitRuminant Research Group (RRG), School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9401-8388
Jamie BarwickPrecision Agriculture Research Group (PARG), School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.ORCID 0000-0003-0905-8527
Frances CowleyRuminant Research Group (RRG), School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-6475-1503
Robin DobosPrecision Agriculture Research Group (PARG), School of Science and Technology, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9110-6729
Roger HegartyRuminant Research Group (RRG), School of Environmental and Rural Science, University of New England, Armidale, NSW 2351, Australia.
University of New England · AU

Funding

Meat & Livestock Australia P.PSH.0857
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying the licking behaviour in beef cattle may provide a means to measure time spent licking for estimating individual block supplement intake. This study aimed to determine the effectiveness of tri-axial accelerometers deployed in a neck-collar and an ear-tag, to characterise the licking behaviour of beef cattle in individual pens. Four, 2-year-old Angus steers weighing 368 ± 9.3 kg (mean ± SD) were used in a 14-day study. Four machine learning (ML) algorithms (decision trees [DT], random forest [RF], support vector machine [SVM] and

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accelerometerbeef cattlebehaviourlickingmineral block supplements

Identifiers

PMID33920600
PMCPMC8073741
OpenAlexW3154414314

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