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Depressie en burnout Een ander perspectief Op zoek naar de verschillen en overeenkomsten tussen deze epidemieën van de 21ste eeuw door middel van data gebaseerde transfer functie modellen KU Leuven
To date, depression is the worldwide leading cause for disability and a considerable contributor to the global disease burden. In recent years, another disorder that shares certain traits with depression has been on the rise, namely burnout. Although the prevalence and disease burden of burnout is not nearly as great as that of depression, it has been escalating in the last decade. As a result, burnout has been receiving a lot of attention in ...
Individualised automated lameness detection in dairy cows and the impact of historical window length on algorithm performance. KU Leuven
Lameness is an important economic problem in the dairy sector, resulting in production loss and reduced welfare of dairy cows. Given the modern-day expansion of dairy herds, a tool to automatically detect lameness in real-time can therefore create added value for the farmer. The challenge in developing camera-based tools is that one system has to work for all the animals on the farm despite each animal having its own individual lameness ...
An ethogram of biter and bitten pigs during an ear biting event: first step in the development of a Precision Livestock Farming tool KU Leuven
© 2019 The Authors Pigs reared in intensive farming systems are more likely to develop damaging behaviours such as tail and ear biting (EB)due to their difficulty in coping with the environment and their inability to perform natural behaviours. However, much less is known about the aetiology of EB behaviour compared to tail biting behaviour. Application of new intervention strategies may be the key to deal with this welfare issue. The discipline ...
Review of Sensor Technologies in Animal Breeding: Phenotyping Behaviors of Laying Hens to Select Against Feather Pecking KU Leuven
Damaging behaviors, like feather pecking (FP), have large economic and welfare consequences in the commercial laying hen industry. Selective breeding can be used to obtain animals that are less likely to perform damaging behavior on their pen-mates. However, with the growing tendency to keep birds in large groups, identifying specific birds that are performing or receiving FP is difficult. With current developments in sensor technologies, it may ...
Methodologies for Assessing Disease Tolerance in Pigs KU Leuven
Features of intensive farming can seriously threaten pig homeostasis, well-being and productivity. Disease tolerance of an organism is the adaptive ability in preserving homeostasis and at the same time limiting the detrimental impact that infection can inflict on its health and performance without affecting pathogen burden per se. While disease resistance (DRs) can be assessed measuring appropriately the pathogen burden within the host, the ...
Heart rate and high frequency heart rate variability during stress as biomarker for clinical depression. A systematic review KU Leuven
The interaction of physical and mental vulnerability and environmental constraints is thought to foster the development of psychiatric disorders such as major depressive disorder (MDD). A central factor in the development of psychopathology is mental stress. Despite some evidence for parasympathetic withdrawal and sympathetic overactivity in MDD, the psychophysiological response to stress in depression is not clear-cut. Given the growing ...
Automated real-time stress monitoring of police horses using wearable technology KU Leuven
© 2017 Elsevier B.V. Mounted police horses and riders are repeatedly subjected to demanding and stressful situations. Intensive selection and training of police horses is required to ensure performance, safety and welfare of the horses and their riders. At the mounted police in Brussels, Belgium, the selection of police horses is mainly based on intuition built upon previous experience which makes it a subjective decision. Although this decision ...