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Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare
Circadian rhythms are a process of the sleep-wake cycle that regulates the physical, mental and behavioural changes in all living beings with a period of roughly 24 h. Wearable accelerometers are typically used in livestock applications to record animal movement from which we can estimate the activi...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9370846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35957398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22155843 |
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author | Rhodes, Victoria Maguire, Maureen Shetty, Meghana McAloon, Conor Smeaton, Alan F. |
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description | Circadian rhythms are a process of the sleep-wake cycle that regulates the physical, mental and behavioural changes in all living beings with a period of roughly 24 h. Wearable accelerometers are typically used in livestock applications to record animal movement from which we can estimate the activity type. Here, we use the overall movement recorded by accelerometers worn on the necks of newborn calves for a period of 8 weeks. From the movement data, we calculate 24 h periodicity intensities corresponding to circadian rhythms, from a 7-day window that slides through up to 8-weeks of data logging. The strength or intensity of the 24 h periodicity is computed at intervals as the calves become older, which is an indicator of individual calf welfare. We observe that the intensities of these 24 h periodicities for individual calves, derived from movement data, increase and decrease synchronously in a herd of 19 calves. Our results show that external factors affecting the welfare of the herd can be observed by processing and visualising movement data in this way and our method reveals insights that are not observable from movement data alone. |
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spelling | pubmed-93708462022-08-12 Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare Rhodes, Victoria Maguire, Maureen Shetty, Meghana McAloon, Conor Smeaton, Alan F. Sensors (Basel) Communication Circadian rhythms are a process of the sleep-wake cycle that regulates the physical, mental and behavioural changes in all living beings with a period of roughly 24 h. Wearable accelerometers are typically used in livestock applications to record animal movement from which we can estimate the activity type. Here, we use the overall movement recorded by accelerometers worn on the necks of newborn calves for a period of 8 weeks. From the movement data, we calculate 24 h periodicity intensities corresponding to circadian rhythms, from a 7-day window that slides through up to 8-weeks of data logging. The strength or intensity of the 24 h periodicity is computed at intervals as the calves become older, which is an indicator of individual calf welfare. We observe that the intensities of these 24 h periodicities for individual calves, derived from movement data, increase and decrease synchronously in a herd of 19 calves. Our results show that external factors affecting the welfare of the herd can be observed by processing and visualising movement data in this way and our method reveals insights that are not observable from movement data alone. MDPI 2022-08-04 /pmc/articles/PMC9370846/ /pubmed/35957398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22155843 Text en © 2022 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Communication Rhodes, Victoria Maguire, Maureen Shetty, Meghana McAloon, Conor Smeaton, Alan F. Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare |
title | Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare |
title_full | Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare |
title_fullStr | Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare |
title_full_unstemmed | Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare |
title_short | Periodicity Intensity of the 24 h Circadian Rhythm in Newborn Calves Show Indicators of Herd Welfare |
title_sort | periodicity intensity of the 24 h circadian rhythm in newborn calves show indicators of herd welfare |
topic | Communication |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9370846/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35957398 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s22155843 |
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