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Resilience of Small Beef Packers and the USDA Meat Supply Chain Initiative

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We focus on the plant‐size resilience relationship among small beef packers during COVID‐19. Defining resilience as the ability to maintain or increase slaughter and non‐resilience as otherwise, we use survey and secondary data to estimate a logit model where resilience is a function of a plant's capacity and age in addition to labor condition
Sunil P. Dhoubhadel, Azzeddine Azzam, Binod Khanal   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Pork as a Source of Diverse Viral Foodborne Infections: An Escalating Issue

Diversity
This review synthesizes current knowledge on the risks posed by viral foodborne infections associated with pork, emphasizing their global prevalence and the complexity of managing such pathogens.
Anna Szczotka-Bochniarz, Maciej Kochanowski   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Circulation of prions within dust on a scrapie affected farm [PDF]

, 2015
Prion diseases are fatal neurological disorders that affect humans and animals. Scrapie of sheep/goats and Chronic Wasting Disease (CWD) of deer/elk are contagious prion diseases where environmental reservoirs have a direct link to the transmission of ...
Baker, Claire A., Gough, Kevin C., Hawkins, Steve A., Maddison, Ben C., Simmons, Hugh A.   +4 more
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AInsectID Version 1.1: An Insect Species Identification Software Based on the Transfer Learning of Deep Convolutional Neural Networks

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
This paper describes the basis for AInsectID Version 1, a GUI‐operable open‐source insect species identification, color processing, and image analysis software. This paper discusses our methods of algorithmic development, coupled to rigorous machine training used to enable high levels of validation accuracy.
Haleema Sadia, Parvez Alam
wiley   +1 more source

Multiple Sampling Capsule Robot for Studying Gut Microbiome

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A multiple sampling capsule robot (MSCR) is developed for longitudinal gut microbiome analysis. Employing electromagnetic field control, the MSCR can locomote actively, precisely align the selected channel, and collect up to six microbiome samples with minimal cross‐contamination.
Sanghyeon Park, Manh Cuong Hoang, Jayoung Kim, Sukho Park   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sheep and goat pathogen database: a pathogen data integration and analysis database of sheep and goat infectious diseases

Frontiers in Microbiology
The prevalence of infectious diseases in sheep and goats has a significant impact on the development of the sheep and goat industry and public health security.
Haoju Pan, Zizhuo Jiao, Hong Li, Suya Li, Le Xu, Shiyuan Li, Yong Meng, Yujing Fu, Taoyu Chen, Qiaoling Chen, Si Chen, Li Du, Churiga Man, Fengyang Wang, Hongyan Gao   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Environmental and Public Health Issues of Animal Food Products Delivery System in Imo State, Nigeria [PDF]

, 2006
Information on livestock movement, animal food products processing facilities, meat inspection methods, official meat inspection records and distribution and marketing systems for processed products in Imo state, Nigeria needed for policy development ...
Okoli Chidi, Grace, Okoli Ifeanyi, Charles, Okorondu Ugochukwu, Victor, Opara Nwachukwu, Maxwell   +3 more
core  

An Infectious Foot Disease in Sheep [PDF]

, 1911
Arnold Theiler
openalex   +1 more source

A mouse coccygeal intervertebral disc degeneration model with tail‐looping constructed using a suturing method

Animal Models and Experimental Medicine, EarlyView.
A novel, simple coccygeal intervertebral disc degeneration model, using a suturing method for tail‐looping, without the need for external fixation and complex surgery. The model has high reproducibility and stability and overcomes the disadvantages of the existing animal models of disc degeneration.
Wei Xie, Zemao Huang, Ziyang Huang, Deqing Luo, Zhangxin Chen, Li Xie, Lingqi Zhu, Hui Liu, Kejian Lian, Paolo Alberton, Denitsa Docheva, Dasheng Lin   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental Protocol to Toxoplasma gondii Detection in Fresh Goat Milk

Journal of Parasitology Research
Toxoplasma gondii is a zoonotic parasite with global distribution capable of infecting homeothermic animals. Transmission of protozoan to humans includes ingestion of water and raw food contaminated with sporulated oocysts, ingestion of raw or ...
Igor Falco Arruda, Patricia Riddell Millar, Mário Felipe Alvarez Balaro, Thamires Francisco Bonifácio, Raissa Cristina Ferreira Ramos, Maria Regina Reis Amendoeira   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source