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Most research on recognition of the ewe by her lamb has focused on lambs several days or even several weeks old, whereas newly born lambs have received little attention. The aim of this work was therefore to study the attraction of Merino lambs to postparturient ewes and their ability to discriminate between their own and alien mothers in a two-choice situation 12, 18, 24, 48, and 72 hr after birth. A comparison between singles and multiples was also made in 18 and 24-hr-old lambs. When released in the testing pen, approximately 90% of the lambs in each group (older than 12 hr) spent more than 3 min with the two ewes during the 5-min test. It was only from 24 hr old, however, that a high proportion of lambs spent at least two-thirds of this time close to their own mothers (correct choice). The proportion of singles spending more than 3 min with the ewes or making a correct choice was higher than that of multiples. This effect was related to litter size but not to birth weight. It is concluded that a majority of Merino lambs are clearly attracted to ewes by the time they are 18 hr old and can discriminate their own dams from alien mothers at about 24 hr of age. At this stage singles perform better than multiples.

The closeness of the relationship between dogs and human makes the dog can be trained, played together, lived together with human and are invited to socialize with human and other dogs. But, despite its this relationship, the dogs can also have a contagious disease that may be harmful to human. Diagnostic expert system for infectious disease in dogs for as web-based system with the media android used as a tool for diagnosing infectious diseases in dogs based on physical characteristics or symptoms that can be seen or felt without through examination of the specifics. The diagnostics final results are expected to be a reference for further examination and handling of dogs that contract the disease is detected to prevent the disease for humans. This expert system uses a forward chaining inference method and Certainty Factor to infer.

In school development problem, determining location is one of important things to consider. In this research, the purpose is to determine the location of SMAN 9 Denpasar if it will be built. One of algorithms in computational geometry that can be used to find solution of facility location problem is multiplicatively weighted Voronoi diagram in two dimensions. The result of weighted Voronoi diagram shows the influence of each site to the surrounding area. Then, the location of SMAN 9 Denpasar is obtained by determining the center of the largest empty circle of the weighted Voronoi diagram.