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Showing 1 to 20 of 45 for “"abattoir"”.
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Picnic in the abattoir
Picnic in the Abattoir is a collection investigating the negotiation of self amid a myriad of antagonistic forces. These forces include pop cultural products (particularly horror films), violence against women and its depiction in media, viewership and the gaze, etc. The collection is structured in …
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Fields, restaurants, grocers, abattoir : food spaces in Austin, Texas
… spinach-producing regions in the U.S.; a public abattoir (slaughterhouse) operated from 1931 to 1969; three different restaurants that marked different times of Austin’s history; the home-grown organic-luxury grocer, Whole Foods Market; and four urban farms whose controversial presence provoked a …
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Cadmium and lead concentrations in livers and kidneys of cattle slaughtered at Grootfontein abattoir in Namibia
… kidneys of cattle slaughtered at Grootfontein abattoir in Namibia. The study design was based on the epidemiological principles to detect a single animal whose kidneys or liver contained Cd or Pb residues. The Grootfontein area of Namibia has extensive base-metal ore reserves, which were and …
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One Health investigation at abattoirs in South Africa
… were investigated that influence the health of abattoir workers and domestic animals slaughtered in this environment. Zoonotic diseases such as brucellosis and coxiellosis (Q-fever) are well known infections of humans and domestic animals while toxoplasmosis is zoonotic from cats to humans and …
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Catecholamine physiology in the sheep
… various stages of a journey from the farm to the abattoir. Catecholamine levels remained consistently elevated throughout the experiment before rising to a very high peak upon electrical stunning prior to slaughter. Plasma lactic acid peaks were associated with mustering and washing while cortisol …
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Pathogenesis of Leptospirosis in Adult Female Goats: Studies With Three Serovars
… been limited to small numbers of dairy cows or abattoir samples. Additional research is needed to further understand the mechanisms of infection and persistance in these tissues of the leptospires, especially the serovars of the Hebdomadis serogroup, which have become the most common cause of …
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Psychrophilic and psychrotrophic Clostridium spp. associated with meat spoilage
… back to their contamination source in the abattoir. Where phenotypic and genotypic characteristics indicated that some isolates of psychrophilic and psychrotrophic clostridia differed from those previously described, taxonomic studies were conducted to determine whether these isolates could …
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Evaluating traceability systems within the South African sheep meat supply chain
… stores. The question, though, is whether all abattoirs and meat processors in South Africa are able to deliver origin-guaranteed products. The key factor here is the traceability system they have in place. The general objective of this study is therefore to assess current traceability systems …
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Transcriptional profiles of cumulus-oocyte complexes related to developmental competence in bovine oocytes
… and surrounding CC. Using cow ovaries from an abattoir, COC were collected from follicles ranging from 3 to 8 mm in diameter. Cumulus-oocyte complexes were incubated in the supravital stain brilliant cresyl blue (BCB) as a means of separating oocytes based on the growth phase. Fully developed …
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Understanding transmission and control of Cystic Echinococcosis and other taeniid infections in the Falkland Islands
… coproantigen and coproPCR analysis, abattoir data surveillance, DNA sequencing, environmental sample analysis and mathematical modelling to study Echinococcus granulosus and other taeniids endemic in the Falklands and investigate how their continued transmission can occur in the face …
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Impact of the Tsumeb smelter waste on plant species diversity and structure in Tsumeb, north-central Namibia
… Inside Smelter Site, Outside Smelter Site, Abattoir Hill Site, Transnamib Site, Nomtsoub Site and Airport Site were selected and ten 10 m x 10 m plots were randomly demarcated at each site for soil and plant sampling. All 10 m x 10 m plots were used for sampling trees, nested within them …
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Effects of Polydatin on In Vitro Bovine Embryo Developmental Competence, Metabolism, and Cryopreservation
… in each experiment, oocytes were aspirated from abattoir ovaries, matured for 23h, fertilized with semen from 1 of 3 bulls, and cultured in synthetic oviductal (SOF) based medium (SCF1) in 38.5 °C in 5% O<sub>2</sub>, 5% CO<sub>2</sub> and 90% N<sub>2</sub>. Stage 7 blastocysts were stained with …
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Hypothermic Machine Perfusion of Composite Tissues
… Eighteen (18) limbs were procured from a local abattoir, vessels cannulated, and an initial flush of a modified phosphate buffered saline (PBS) solution was performed. Half of those limbs, assigned to the treatment group, were then preserved with continuous hypothermic machine perfusion for 12 …
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Utilization of early weaning and intrafollicular insemination as methods to improve the reproductive performance of cattle
… investigate whether IFI can cause fertilization. Abattoir ovaries with dominant follicles injected with semen and incubated overnight displayed sperm in close association with granulosa cells. When synchronized cows were subjected to IFI, no pregnancies resulted. While other studies have …
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A microbiological and molecular study of campylobacter and related species isolated from ostriches (Struthio camelus)
… present. Samples were collected at an abattoir in the Western Cape between February and December 2010. Qualitative microbiological assays were also performed on 50 faecal samples collected on a farm. Epsilonproteobacteria were isolated from the tissue samples and characterized following …
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Epidemiology of Toxoplasma gondii in the pig industry of Yucatan, Mexico
… and blood samples were collected from a local abattoir from 2013 to 2015. Anti - T. gondii IgG antibody levels were investigated with the well validated MAT (Modified Agglutination Test), with an ELISA (Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay) for use on pig serum (ID Screen ®, IDVet) and with the …
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The effects of molybdenum water concentration on feedlot performance, tissue mineral concentration, and carcass quality of feedlot steers
… steers. Steers were transported to a commercial abattoir, slaughtered, and individual carcass data and liver samples were collected. Initial BW was used as a covariate for statistical analysis of the data and significance was determined at P ≤ 0.05. No differences were observed for final BW (P ≤ …
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Cyclic Loading Effects on Craniofacial Strain and Sutural Growth in Pigs
… cycling at 2.5 Hz were applied to one NFS of abattoir pig heads (n=6) instrumented with strain gages. Similar loading was applied to 3-month old live pigs (Sus scrofa, n=4 and 1 sham) 30 minutes/day for 5 days. Strains were recorded on day 5. Quantitative computerized histomorphometric …
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The effects of periodic environmental enrichment at different life stages on the welfare and production of growing pigs
… GF. A subsample of pigs was transported to the abattoir and carcass characteristics were analyzed. Statistical analysis of Early and Late life data was done using mixed linear models. Growth was increased with enrichment between 18-21 weeks of age (P=0.011). Post-mixing lesions were reduced in E …
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Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia
… tissue since it is normally food waste from an abattoir (Harrison, Muruli, Higgins, & Diggle, 2014). Using this model, the primary aims of this study were; to optimise the killing methodology of excised porcine lung tissue which acts as a control comparison to viable tissue highlighting the …
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