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EVALUATION OF THE TRANSPORT TIME OF CARCASSES TO THE SLAUGHTERHOUSE IN CASE OF ON-FARM EMERGENCY SLAUGHTER ANIMALS
No full textSchedule III, section I, chapter VI of Regulation (CE) 853/2004 governs on-farm emergency slaughter (OFES). It specifies that transport to the slaughterhouse must occur "without undue delay," and if the journey exceeds two hours, the carcass must be refrigerated. Active chilling is not mandatory where climatic conditions suffice. At the slaughterhouse, the official veterinarian checks the accompanying OFES animal document (Modello 1) to verify the elapsed time from slaughter to arrival. Any discrepancies between the certified causes of OFES and post-arrival findings may lead to the carcass being deemed unfit for human consumption and the official veterinarian informs the competent authority for the territory of the farm of origin. Time from slaughter at the farm to evisceration at the abattoir of OFES carcases is important because can promote bacterial contamination risk of meat in the event of late evisceration (1). Precise postmortem carcass deterioration timelines remain unclear due to intrinsic and extrinsic factors such as temperature and humidity. (2). In 2023, a study was carried out to examine health certificates (Modello 1), as mandated by Article 4 of Regulation (UE) 2019/624 and Schedule IV, Chapter V of Regulation (UE) 2020/2235. The analysis focused on OFES carcasses within the district of the Modena local health authority (AUSL) to assess adherence to transport time regulations from the point of slaughter to their arrival at the slaughterhouse. The Modena AUSL jurisdiction spans 2,688 square kilometres and includes four districts: Pavullo, Vignola, Carpi-Mirandola, and Modena-Sassuolo-Castelfranco. In 2023, this territory housed 1,002 cattle farms, with a total of 95,207 bovines. From the 926 cases of on-farm emergency slaughter (OFES), representing 1.7% of the bovine population, 855 health certificates documenting carcass transport journeys were analysed, covering 92.3% of OFES cases. The study identified 11 destination slaughterhouses. No carcasses were transported using refrigerated trucks, and slaughter time coincided with the loading of carcasses onto transport vehicles. Using Google Maps, the average distance between farms and slaughterhouses was calculated as 35.7 km (range: 3–120 km; mode: 36.6 km), with an average travel time of 38 minutes (range: 1–130 minutes; mode: 53 minutes). Data revealed that only one OFES carcass exceeded the two-hour transport limit set by EU legislation. Mapping destination slaughterhouses aids in the proactive assessment and management of travel times to ensure compliance with hygienic standards. Minimizing the interval from slaughter to carcass loading remains crucial, particularly during hot weather when refrigerated trucks are unavailable.
(1) Nagel-Alne, G. E., Murphy, E., McCauslin, B., Hauge, S. J., Schrøder-Petersen, D. L., Holthe, J., & Alvseike, O. (2022). Meat safety legislation and its opportunities and hurdles for innovative approaches: A review. In Food Control (Vol. 141). Elsevier Ltd. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodcont.2022.109160
(2) SciCom (Comité scientifique institué auprès de l’Agence Fédérale pour la Sécurité de la Chaîne Alimentaire), Délai entre la saignée et l’éviscération pendant le processus d’abattage d’ongulés domestiques, AVIS 05-2024, p.1-2
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
Author-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.
No full textAuthor-wise bibliometric analysis based on entropy.</p
Author Under Sail The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
No full textIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Spirit Truth -- 2. From Absorption to Theatricality and Back Again -- 3. "I Will Build a New Present" -- 4. Sons as Authors -- 5. Fathers as Publishers -- 6. The Daughter as Author -- 7. Lovers as Authors -- 8. At Sea with the Family -- 9. Yellow News, Yellow Stories -- 10. The Return Home -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About Jay WilliamsIn Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London's work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination in the creative process in his business dealings with his publishers, editors, and agents. In this first volume of a two-volume biography, Williams traverses the years 1893 to 1902, from London's "Story of a Typhoon" to The People of the Abyss. The Jack London who emerges in the pages of Author Under Sail is a writer whose partnership with publishers, most notably his productive alliance with George Brett of Macmillan, was one of the most formative in American literary history. London pioneered many author models during the heyday of realism and naturalism, blurring the boundaries of these popular genres by focusing on absorption and theatricality and the representation of the seen and unseen. London created an impassioned, sincere, and extremely personal realism unlike that of other American writers of the time. Author Under Sail is a literary tour de force that reveals the full range of London as writer, creative citizen, and entrepreneur at the same time it sheds light on the maverick side of machine-age literature.Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, YYYY. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries
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