Anne-Isabelle Graux, Thomas Demarty, Philippe Faverdin
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Abstract
We present CowComfort, an R-shiny app developed to assist researchers, stakeholders and policy makers in the spatialized visualization of the evolution of the thermal comfort of dairy cows under climate change. The application is designed to take into account the uncertainty associated with the climatic projection and the calculation of the thermal indices. This app and its associated data can be used in modelling research and to communicate about the impact of climate change on dairy cows and the required adaptations. An illustration is given for French climatic data and for an evaluation of the thermal stress based on several calculations of the temperature humidity index. It can be easily repeated and extended to other climate situations and thermal stress evaluations.
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SoftwareX aims to acknowledge the impact of software on today''s research practice, and on new scientific discoveries in almost all research domains. SoftwareX also aims to stress the importance of the software developers who are, in part, responsible for this impact. To this end, SoftwareX aims to support publication of research software in such a way that: The software is given a stamp of scientific relevance, and provided with a peer-reviewed recognition of scientific impact; The software developers are given the credits they deserve; The software is citable, allowing traditional metrics of scientific excellence to apply; The academic career paths of software developers are supported rather than hindered; The software is publicly available for inspection, validation, and re-use. Above all, SoftwareX aims to inform researchers about software applications, tools and libraries with a (proven) potential to impact the process of scientific discovery in various domains. The journal is multidisciplinary and accepts submissions from within and across subject domains such as those represented within the broad thematic areas below: Mathematical and Physical Sciences; Environmental Sciences; Medical and Biological Sciences; Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Originating from these broad thematic areas, the journal also welcomes submissions of software that works in cross cutting thematic areas, such as citizen science, cybersecurity, digital economy, energy, global resource stewardship, health and wellbeing, etcetera. SoftwareX specifically aims to accept submissions representing domain-independent software that may impact more than one research domain.