Although the numbers are relatively small with respect to non-organic livestock, the importance of organic livestock farms lies in their sustainable coexistence with the natural environment and in the high-quality food products obtained. In this type of production, no artificial chemicals or genetically modified organisms are used, therefore there will be less impact on the environment and, in most cases, native breeds are employed. This paper describes a geostatistical study of organic livestock farms in Andalusia (southern Spain), conducted using information from the 2009 Agricultural Census, by classes of livestock. This region currently records the highest output in Spain for organic livestock farming. The number of farms was fitted according to the univariate generalized Waring distribution, which is presented as a means of analyzing this type of discrete measurement, using agricultural or livestock data. The Waring distribution is used when the frequency of occurrence of a phenomenon is very low and allows one to divide the variance. The most important outcome of this study is the finding that livestock data variability is mainly due to external factors such as the proneness component of the variance.
Objetivo principal: Valorar la rotación fetal de posición occipitoposterior (OP) a occipitoanterior (OA) durante el parto con la postura "manos-rodillas" (MR) frente a la postura "decúbito lateral (DL) hacia la espalda fetal". Metodología: Ensayo clínico multicéntrico. Mediante asignación aleatoria, 65 gestantes con posición fetal OP adoptaron la postura MR (grupo MR) y 70 gestantes la postura DL hacia la espalda fetal (grupo DL) durante 30 minutos. Resultados principales: Similar rotación fetal a OA durante la intervención del grupo MR frente al grupo DL (55,4% vs. 54,3%; Odds Ratio de 1,04 para un intervalo de confianza al 95%:0,53-2,06). Tampoco hubo diferencias estadísticamente significativas para los resultados de duración y tipo de terminación del parto entre los grupos. Conclusión principal: Para mejorar los resultados de los partos con posición fetal occipitoposterior recomendamos la adopción de las posturas MR y DL hacia la espalda fetal durante el parto, pues ambas tienen similar eficacia de rotación fetal a occipitoanterior.
27 January 2021 in Emission Control Science and Technology