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Understanding Consumer Acceptance of Multiple Red Meat Products and Perceptions of the American Meat Science Association?s Intercollegiate Meat Judging Program Benefits From Participants
Get PDFPer capita consumption of red meat products totaled 67 kg in 2017. Given the popularity of meat, it is important for meat scientists to monitor consumers acceptance of red meat products. Consumer acceptance of red meat products is driven by meat quality characteristics such as tenderness. The objectives of the second and third chapter was to investigate the influence of beef ribeye steak weight and thickness on purchasing behaviors of consumers and to better understand the effects of frozen storage on protein degradation, lipid oxidation, meat quality, and sensory characteristics of lamb.
As beef carcasses have grown over the time an unexpected consequence arose, an increase in ribeye size. Researchers have been studying these effects for several years to understand the influence on increasing ribeye size in relation to consumer acceptance of beef steaks. Our results indicate beef consumers are varied in their preference of beef ribeye steak size. However, beef consumers do discriminate against thin cut steaks regardless of steak size. These results indicate the beef industry is providing enough variation in steak types to meet consumer demands.
The lamb industry experiences lulls and surplus of fresh lamb due to breeding seasons of sheep, creating supply chain issues. Use of frozen lamb could alleviate some of these issues, however consumers discriminate against frozen lamb in the retail space. Our research indicates consumers discriminate against frozen loin chops due to tenderness and juiciness issues. However, consumers did not discriminate against frozen leg chops. Furthermore, we affirmed previous research which indicated the importance of allows lamb several days to age postmortem before freezing to improve protein degradation.
An important part of the meat industry is the AMSA intercollegiate meat judging program. This program allows for students to learn how to evaluate meat products and introduces students to the meat industry. Our objective of this study was to better understand the influence of the meat judging program on participants. Our results indicate judging programs provide participants with benefits such as skills development and introduction to the meat industry. Area of improvement included more community building and more applicability to the meat industry
Tenderness and Juiciness of Beef Steaks from Varying Hot Carcass Weights
Get PDFThe objective of this study was to determine how hot carcass weights affect temperature decline and pH decline of beef carcasses, as well as, tenderness, juiciness and color of beef steaks. Carcasses were selected based on hot carcass weight. Carcasses were separated into either light, medium or heavy weight groups and temperature and pH decline were measured for 24 hours. There were no differences in pH decline, fat thickness, KPH or marbling score, drip loss, cook loss or WBSF among hot carcass weight classes. Light and medium carcasses weight had smaller longissimus areas compared to heavy carcasses. Light weight carcasses had lower USDA final yield grades compared to heavy carcasses. Color data indicated steaks from heavy carcasses were redder than steaks from light carcasses. Hot carcass weight did not have an influence on overall meat quality attributes of steaks, however, hot carcass weight did have an effect on color
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
Get PDF“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
Get PDFWe 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
Get PDFWe 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
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