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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"Slaughterhouse"”.
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The Slaughterhouse Hang-Up in Meat Marketing
The purpose of this research paper, The Slaughterhouse Hang-Up of the Meat Industry, is to introduce the reader to the present condition of the meat industry, to highlight its past decade of accomplishments, and to predict some probable and possible changes, strides and trends of the industry. | …
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Assessing broiler chicken welfare at the slaughterhouse
… measures assessed at three commercial slaughterhouses were associated with transport-specific flock characteristics. This relationship varied depending on the slaughterhouse where broilers were processed. Older and younger broilers were more at risk to obtain a leg bruise or die during …
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Ex-Vivo Slaughterhouse Porcine Crystalloid-Perfused Beating Heart via Langendorff Method
… isolated beating porcine hearts obtained from slaughterhouse swine for a minimum of 1 hour with a crystalloid buffer reperfusion instead of blood via an extracorporeal Langendorff apparatus. The isolated beating heart functions outside of the body under simulated physiologic conditions. Live …
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Evaluation of veterinary antibiotics in a swine slaughterhouse wastewaters and their removal using advanced oxidation processes
Submitted in fulfillment of the academic requirements for the degree of Doctor of Engineering, Durban University of Technology, Durban, South Africa, 2020.
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Interrogating History or Making History? Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, DeLillo's Libra, and the Shaping of Collective Memory
… thesis, I examine two works in particular: <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> by Kurt Vonnegut and <em>Libra</em> by Don DeLillo. I use my examination of these two novels as a means of analyzing the relationship between fiction and the epistemology of history. In my analysis, I point out the tendency …
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A self-conscious Kurt Vonnegut: an analysis of Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions
… most influential novels, namely Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions, this study aims to better understand the mechanisms which inform his fiction. Working chronologically through the novels, the study examines historical context, narrative technique, theoretical …
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Application of hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) concept to study cattle slaughterhouse hygiene and Carcass contamination in Zambia
… for the first time to four Zambian cattle slaughterhouses to study slaughterhouse hygiene and bacterial contamination of carcasses. Swabs were collected from carcass surfaces and also from the following environmental surfaces, which were likely to come in contact with carcasses: knives, …
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Application of hazard analysis critical control point (HACCP) concept to study cattle slaughterhouse hygiene and Carcass contamination in Zambia
… for the first time to four Zambian cattle slaughterhouses to study slaughterhouse hygiene and bacterial contamination of carcasses. Swabs were collected from carcass surfaces and also from the following environmental surfaces, which were likely to come in contact with carcasses: knives, …
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The corral and the slaughterhouse: knowledge, tradition and the modernization of indigenous reindeer slaughtering practice in the Norwegian Arctic
… the social effects of the introduction of slaughterhouses, and of the regime of which they form a part; controversies surrounding specific slaughtering techniques and instruments, particularly the curved knife; and the politics of animal welfare discourse and practices in their application …
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Klinische Untersuchung von Rindern auf BSE am Vieh- und Schlachthof München
… Clinical examination of cattle for BSE at the slaughterhouse in Munich The aim of the present study was to investigate the reactions of BSE-free cattle at the slaughterhouse to the in vivo BSE-test for cattle of BRAUN et al. (1997). A total of 949 female cattle, older than 24 months and with a …
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A Moral Being in an Aesthetic World: Being in the Early Novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… will address are Player Piano, Sirens of Titan, Slaughterhouse-Five, and Breakfast of Champions. Player Piano and Sirens of Titan are Vonnegut’s first two novels, and they approach being in terms of what Heidegger referred to as “throwness.” These initial inquiries into aspects of existence give …
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Sins of the Daughter
… into four distinct sections ("Circling the Slaughterhouse," "Circumference," "Sins of the Daughter," and "Magnetic Resonance"), the collection uses formal verse and free verse to explore the domestic, spiritual, physical, and cultural facets of femaleness, feminism, and femininity.
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Chemostratigraphy of the Early Paleoproterozoic carbonate successions (Kaapvaal and Wyoming cratons)
… indicate a recurrence of global glaciations. The Slaughterhouse and Nash Fork formations significantly postdate the glacial epoch. Both the lower part of the Nash Fork Formation, Medicine Bow Mountains and the Slaughterhouse Formation, Sierra Madre contains carbonates with 13C-enrichment >+6â ° …
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Carnivalesque Inversion: The Subversive Fiction of Kurt Vonnegut
… on Cat’s Cradle (1963), Player Piano (1952), and Slaughterhouse-Five (1969), through the literary theories of Mikhail Bakhtin. It concentrates on Bakhtin’s carnivalesque inversion from Rabelais and his World (1965), his theoretical perspectives on the text as a site of struggle from The Dialogic …
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Violence & Volition: Choice, Acceptance, and Identity in Selected Works by Flannery O'Connor, Kurt Vonnegut, and Cormac McCarthy
… the results of that violence. Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five, through the character of Billy Pilgrim, extends choices around violence even further, suggesting that inaction is sometimes the best plan. Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men highlights how a combination of action and …
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SUSTAINABILITY, ENERGY AND ANIMAL WELFARE AT SLAUGHTER
… remains poorly explored. Variations in slaughterhouse facilities and operations – from small abattoirs to industrial settings – further complicate the application of these indicators. This gap underscores the need for research efficiently apply ABMs in different contexts. To address …
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Empty heroics, low comedy and pointless death: Structures of melancholy in the early novels of Kurt Vonnegut
… Player Piano, The Sirens of Titan, Mother Night, Slaughterhouse-Five and Breakfast of Champions. The thesis attempts to give new readings to each of the novels by drawing on critical approaches to melancholy and by viewing each text as being subject to contemporary cultural influences. In …
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Effects of In Vitro Maturation and Fertilization of Cattle Ova on Rate of Twinning in Beef Cattle
… of lutalyse. Ovaries were collected from slaughterhouse cows from which oocytes were aspirated, matured and fertilized in vitro and nonsurgically transferred to 25 recipients, with 5 (20 percent) calves born alive from five first-calf heifers. Birthweight, head circumference, perietal, …
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Text world theory : A critical exposition and development in relation to absurd prose fiction.
… Emmanuel Carrere's The Mustache, Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, and Donald Barthelme's Snow White are undertaken over the course of the thesis. Further adaptations to the model are proposed as a result of these applications. The thesis aims primarily to be a contribution to the field of …
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THE DOUBLE BOND IN Δ1-2 POSITION OF STEROIDS: A MATTER OF CONTROVERSY IN THE CONTROL OF ILLICIT TREATMENTS OF FARM ANIMALS
… in urine collected from the bladder at the slaughterhouse (i.e. without faecal contamination) and incubated at 37°C for 24 hours. The influence of deconjugation with beta-glucuronidase from Helix pomatia was assessed, too. Only urine where prednisolone and prednisone were absent and cortisol …
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