Modelling of resource allocation patterns

Resource Allocation Theory Applied to Farm Animal Production

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 302-320

  Friggens, N C ^a   Van Der Waaij, E H ^b  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

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