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4.2 Flow of Information from Research

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 February 2018

J. M. Forbes
J. M. Forbes*
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Department of Animal Physiology and Nutrition, University of Leeds, Leeds
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The remit of this paper is to discuss “…provision of appropriate information to write suitable software for the animal production industry” and … how much material has actually flowed from Universities and Research Institutes into useable computer programs and what are seen as being the main stumbling blocks to the rate of flow and effectiveness of take-up?”. Canvassing opinion from several people, including some of those who have contributed at this Meeting, gave many useful ideas but some of them would not wish these ideas to be associated with their names, for a variety of reasons. Therefore, the author is reluctantly unable to thank those who helped by name but is very pleased to do so collectively. The remit has also been broadened slightly to include the feedback from the use of models in the field to the research worker and uses examples of the author's own attempts to model voluntary food intake in ruminants to illustrate some shortcomings.

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4. Policies for Future Use of Computers in Animal Production
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BSAP Occasional Publication , Volume 5 , 1981 , pp. 127 - 130
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Copyright © British Society of Animal Production 1981

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