Avaliação do coeficiente de variação como medida da precisão em experimentos com frangos de corte / Evaluation of the coefficient of variation as a precision measure in experiments with broilers

Estabeleceram-se faixas de coeficientes de variação (CV) que orientem a avaliação de determinadas variáveis em pesquisas futuras. Foram coletados dados de CV de vários trabalhos publicados no Brasil, com ênfase em frangos de corte, abordando: ganho de peso, consumo de ração, conversão alimentar, mortalidade, viabilidade, peso vivo e rendimentos de carcaça, de peito, de pernas, de gordura abdominal, de asas e de dorso. Utilizou-se uma tabela que relaciona mediana (Md) e pseudo-sigma (PS) para estabelecer os intervalos de CV de cada variável. O rendimento de gordura abdominal apresentou faixa de variação com maiores coeficientes de variação; para as demais variáveis, as faixas de classificação dos coeficientes de variação mostraram-se relativamente baixas.

Coefficients of variation (CV) were taken from several researches published in Brazil, with emphasis on broilers performance and their most studied characteristics, such as weight gain, feed consumption, feed:weight gain ratio, mortality, viability, body weight and yields of carcass, breast, legs, abdominal fat, wings and back. The purpose of the study was to establish CV bands which can guide the evaluation of each variable in future experiments. Based on relations between the median (Md) and pseudosigma (PS), a table was created with suggested intervals for the cited parameters. Larger coefficient of variation intervals were observed for abdominal fat yield. The other variables showed relatively low CV interval bands.

Clinical diagnosis and alternative surgical treatment of tetralogy of Fallot in a dog. A case report

Tetralogy of Fallot was diagnosed in a 30 month-old Cocker Spaniel female, through physical, radiographic, electrocardiographic, and echocardiographic exams. The animal was submitted to a palliative surgical correction, the Blalock-Taussig technique, and 46 months after the surgery, no signs of cardiopulmonary decompensation were observed