Sentence examples for eating phase from inspiring English sources

During the eating phase, the depletion of food patches forces the agents to move away from one patch and to resume searching for a new patch.

In order to realize this analysis, we first eliminated gene repetitions and then compared the frequency of three possible cases: E – F – E (a flexible phase between two eating phases), S – F – S (a flexible phase between two sleeping phases), and S – F – E or E – F – S (a flexible phase as a transition between a sleeping phase and an eating phase or vice versa).

Likewise, eating phases were easily identified even though the pressure pattern and waveform were less regular than during rumination.

For the evaluation of eating and rumination activity, chewing cycles in close succession were combined into blocks (eating phases, rumination phases, rumination activity per cud).

The number of eating phases varied from 12 to 19 with a daily mean of 16, compared with 12 [ 13] and up to 20 phases [ 14].

The mean duration of eating over the five-day period ranged from 275 to 319 minutes, the number of chewing cycles during eating from 18'236 to 20'800 and the number of eating phases from 16.3 to 18.2 per day (Table  1).

Based on these findings, the following reference intervals were established: duration of eating 212 to 394 minutes, number of chewing cycles 13'101 to 26'515, number of eating phases 10 to 24.> -wrap-foot> Calculated from the data of the control cows (group A) collected during five days (see Methods).

The following reference intervals were established in the cows of group A: duration of eating, 212 to 394 min; number of chewing cycles during eating 13'101 to 26'515; number of eating phases 10 to 24; duration of rumination 304 to 471 min; number of regurgitated cuds 366 to 611; number of chewing cycles per cud 53 to 57; and number of rumination phases 9 to 18.

Both methods yielded a mean of 16 eating phases per day.

Both methods yielded an average of 16 daily eating phases with a mean duration of 28.3 minutes.

The number of eating phases decreased slightly toward parturition from 16 ± 1.4 on day -10 to 14.9 ± 3.37 on day 0 (P > 0.05) and then increased.