A Comparison of Machine-Graded (ChatGPT) and Human-Graded Essay Scores in Veterinary Admissions.

Admissions committees have historically emphasized cognitive measures, but a paradigm shift toward holistic reviews now places greater importance on non-cognitive skills. These holistic reviews may include personal statements, experiences, references, interviews, multiple mini-interviews, and situational judgment tests, often requiring substantial faculty resources. Leveraging advances in artificial intelligence, particularly in natural language processing, this study was conducted to assess the agreement of essay scores graded by both humans and machines (OpenAI's ChatGPT).

Utilization of publicly available data to summarize spatio-temporal patterns of fish health events of Atlantic salmon (Salmo salar) reported by marine finfish industries in British Columbia (BC), Canada.

Atlantic salmon aquaculture companies in British Columbia (BC) must report fish health events to Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) as part of their licensing conditions. Our study aimed to summarize these fish health events reported by Atlantic salmon sites in BC to identify spatial and spatio-temporal clusters. We conducted descriptive, retrospective global, and local cluster analyses using Moran's I and scan statistics.

Effects of storage conditions on the microbiota of fecal samples collected from dairy cattle.

Microbiota analyses are key to understanding the bacterial communities within dairy cattle, but the impact of different storage conditions on these analyses remains unclear. This study sought to examine the effects of freezing at -80°C immediately after collection, refrigeration at 4°C for three days and seven days and absolute ethanol preservation on the microbiota diversity of pooled fecal samples from dairy cattle. Examining 16S rRNA gene sequences, alpha (Shannon, Pielou evenness, observed features and Faith PD indices) and beta (Bray-Curtis, βw and Weighted UniFrac) diversity were assessed.

Relative merits of offering a milk replacer, glucose-electrolyte, or whey-based diet on the blood composition and health of unweaned calves after transport.

The objective of this randomized controlled trial was to assess the relative merits of offering unweaned calves 3 different types of diets to meet energy and water deficits that can occur during journeys. A total of 6 young unweaned male Holstein calves were randomly selected from within 2 body weight ranges (median 48 and 42 kg) from each of 29 loads (total n = 174 calves) transported from an auction market or a collection center to a calf sorting center before transport to a veal unit. The calves were then randomly allocated to one of 3 dietary treatments (n = 58 calves/dietary treatment).