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Welfare issues at slaughter
No full textThis chapter discusses animal welfare in the context of slaughter and reviews the types of welfare issues that some animals can experience before and during slaughter. It shows how animal feelings such as pain, distress, fear, hunger, thirst, fatigue and discomfort can be affected by the procedures associated with slaughter and how responses to these states can be recognized. It concludes with a discussion on methods of assessing animal welfare at slaughter
Determinants of Software Maintenance Profiles: An Empirical Investigation
No full textagers to predict and plan for maintenance more effectively. In addition, our results suggest the use of code generators as a means of reducing repair maintenance. 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. J. Softw. Maint., 9, 235--251 (1997) No. of Figures: 0. No. of Tables: 10. No. of References: 31. KEY WORDS: software maintenance; software complexity; software management; code generators; strategic systems; cyclomatic complexity 1. INTRODUCTION While it is well understood that software maintenance requires a significant amount of organizational resources, there exists a relative shortage of quantitative empirical research * Correspondence: Sandra A. Slaughter, 314A GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, U.S.A. E-mail: sandras+#andrew.cmu.edu Contact grant sponsor: Carengie Mellon University Contact grant sponsor: University of Minnesota CCC 1040--550X/97/040235--17$17.50 Received 21 February 1997 1997 by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. Revised 26 April 1997 devoted to impr
C.C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch in Cochran and Hockley counties, 1898-1921.
No full textLikely added to or created for the author's thesis: "A Cattle Kingdom on Texas' Last Frontier: C. C. Slaughter's Lazy S Ranch" (Texas Tech University, 1970).Scale approximately 1:337,920 (W 102°59'24"--W 102°18'53"/N 33°50'54"--N 33°24'07")The map illustrates the 250,000-acre holdings of C.C. Slaughter, known as the "Cattle King of Texas," before the ranch's liquidation and subdivision beginning in 1921 (following his death in 1919)
Don’t Diffuse The Light; Shine It All : A Chat With William Slaughter, Editor of Mudlark
No full textWilliam Slaughter is editor of Mudlark, an electronic journal of poetry and poetics, and author of The Politics of My Heart and Untold Stories, books of poems and essays, and Older Men, an e-chapbook. His work has been published in magazines ranging from Poetry (Chicago) to Exquisite Corpse in the United States; Malahat Review, Prism International, and Fiddlehead in Canada; Critical Quarterly (England), Poetry Australia, Frank (France), and People’s Daily in China, for example. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of North Florida, has had Senior Fulbright Lectureships to China and Egypt, and has twice taught at the Florida State University London Study Centre
Is software “green”? Application development environments and energy efficiency in open source applications.
No full textGoverning individual learning in the transition phase of software maintenance offshoring: a dynamic perspective
No full textPrior studies suggest that clients need to actively govern knowledge transfer to vendor staff in offshore outsourcing. In this paper, we analyze longitudinal data from four software maintenance offshore out-sourcing projects to explore why governance may be needed for knowledge transfer and how governance and the individual learning of vendor engineers inter-act over time. Our results suggest that self-control is central to learning, but may be hampered by low levels of trust and expertise at the outset of projects. For these foundations to develop, clients initially need to exert high amounts of formal and clan controls to enforce learning activities against barriers to knowledge sharing. Once learning activities occur, trust and expertise increase and control portfolios may show greater emphases on self-control
Interview with Jane Slaughter
No full textSlaughter is a leading national writer, journalist, and educator. As co-director of Labor Notes, she is a leader of the radical wing of the U.S. labor movement from the 1970s to 2010s. Author of many books, including Choosing Sides: Unions and the Team Concept (with Mike Parker). Slaughter also acted as a consultant to Maine paper unions in 1988 and 1989.https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/sd-warren/1010/thumbnail.jp
Risk factors at slaughter associated with presence of Salmonella on hog carcasses in Canada
No full textDespite the application of hazard analysis and critical control point systems at slaughter and during processing, Salmonella contamination is still a significant biological hazard associated with pork products. A better understanding of risk factors in slaughterhouses and of contamination sources is therefore critical to improve control of this bacterium in the abattoirs. The objectives of this study were to identify the risk factors at slaughter that are associated with the presence of Salmonella on hog carcasses and to assess possible sources of contamination. A questionnaire on potential risk factors was developed. Over 7,400 hogs originating from 312 randomly selected production lots were tested. The lots were from 10 different abattoirs located in five different Canadian provinces. At slaughter, blood was collected for serological analysis, and mesenteric lymph nodes (MLN) and carcass swabs were collected for Salmonella analysis. Furthermore, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis was conducted to establish the genetic profiles of selected isolates from carcasses and MLN and to compare these profiles with those recovered from the slaughter environment. Multivariate regression analysis results indicated that the cleanliness of the hogs and the status of the scald water were factors significantly associated with the Salmonella status of the carcasses at the end of the slaughter process. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis analysis showed that most isolates from carcasses were similar to those from animals (MLN) or the preevisceration environment.Accession Number: 19903396. Language: English. Language Code: eng. Date Created: 20091111. Date Completed: 20100129. Update Code: 20111122. Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't. Journal ID: 7703944. Publication Model: Print. Cited Medium: Print. NLM ISO Abbr: J. Food Prot. Linking ISSN: 0362028X. Subset: IM. Date of Electronic Publication: 20091101; ID: 1990339
Comparison of the biotypes of Yersinia enterocolitica isolated from pigs, cattle and sheep at slaughter and from humans with yersiniosis in Great Britain during 1999-2000
No full textAims: To investigate the relationship between livestock carriage of Yersinia enterocolitica and human disease. The biotypes/serotypes of strains recovered from the faeces of pigs, cattle and sheep at slaughter during a national survey in Great Britain in 1999-2000, were compared with those of strains isolated from human cases of yersiniosis during the same period. Methods and Results: The faecal carriage of Y. enterocolitica by cattle, sheep and pigs at slaughter was 6.3, 10.7 and 26.1%, respectively. Yersinia enterocolitica biotype (BT) 1a was the most frequently isolated biotype from livestock (58%) and was the predominant biotype (53%) isolated from human cases over the same period. The main recognized pathogenic Y. enterocolitica biotype isolated from livestock was BT3 (O:5,27) (35% of sheep, 22% of pigs and 4% of cattle) but this biotype was not detected in any of the human isolates investigated. The major pathogenic biotypes of strains isolated from humans were BT3 (O:9) (24%) and BT4 (O:3) (19%) whereas of the veterinary isolates investigated, only pigs (11%) carried BT3 (O:9) strains. Conclusions: Because of significant overlaps in phenotypes of the veterinary and human strains it is not possible to comment on the correlation between host and pathogenicity, especially of biotype 1a. Significance and Impact of the Study: The data suggest that further investigations using methods with greater discriminatory power are required. However the data also suggests that pigs may be the primary reservoir for human pathogenic Y. enterocolitica infection
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