Journal articles: 'Slaughterhouse-five'

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Kavalir, Monika. "Modal structure in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five." Acta Neophilologica 44, no. 1-2 (December 31, 2011): 103–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.44.1-2.103-111.

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The article analyses modal structure (tense, polarity) in Kurt Vonnegut's novel Slaughterhouse-Five within the framework of Systemic-Functional Grammar. The analysis of the Mood element shows the prevailing pattern to be past positive; the use of present tenses embodies Vonnegut's specific non-linear concept of time. Similarly, the absence of negative polarity builds the deterministic belief that pervades the novel.

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Chul Won. "Slaughterhouse-Five: The World and the Subjectivity." New Korean Journal of English Lnaguage & Literature 50, no. 2 (May 2008): 95–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.25151/nkje.2008.50.2.005.

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Khaleel(M.A), Intisar Rashid. "Time Travel in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse- Five." ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES 224, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 89–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.36473/ujhss.v224i1.250.

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For many years, time travel was the stuff of science fiction. This was all just part of the world's imagination until recently. Science authors, among them, Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) post-modern American writer, believe that one can travel through time forward or backward asking his memories and stream of consciousness to give sensory impressions of his thoughts and actions, that what Billy did in Vonnegut's Slaughter house- Five (1969). The protagonist Billy Pilgrim finds himself "unstuck in time" jumping between several periods of his life. Travelling between his experiences as a prisoner of war in World War II to his family life in 1950s, and 1960s and his time on Tralfmadorian Planet, Billy has the freedom and ability to travel; he has no control over these transitions. The present study falls into three sections plus a conclusion. The first section deals with the concept of time travel in literature and fiction. Section two presents historical and literary context to Vonnegut's novel. The treatment of time travel concept will be discussed in the third section. Then, the conclusions which sum up the findings of the research.

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Shrestha, Ravi Kumar. "Time Travel in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five." Patan Pragya 8, no. 01 (December 31, 2021): 116–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/pragya.v8i01.42426.

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This paper deals with Kurt Vonnegut’s experimentation with his notion of time travel in his experimental and postmodern science fiction Slaughterhouse-Five. This paper deals with some statements of problem such as why does the novelist use the idea of time travel? Why does he deconstruct traditional concept of time, traditional plot and history? To show Billy pilgrim’s time travel, the protagonist and war prisoner of Slaughterhouse at Dresden, the linear plot and mechanical/ traditional concept of time is not suitable, so the non-linear plot and the subjective/relative concept of time has been used. Qualitative research methodology has been used. Hence, the theories of Deconstruction, New Historicism and postmodern concept of time have been used. In this context, theorists such as Hengry Bergson, Albert Einstein, Jean-Francois Lyotard and so on and critics/writers such as Lois Tyson, Jago Morrison, Julie Armstrong, Todd F. Davis, OnurIsik, Daisaku Ikeda and so on have been used.

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Shi, Jing. "On the Postmodern Narrative Techniques in Slaughterhouse-Five." Theory and Practice in Language Studies 9, no. 5 (May 1, 2019): 553. http://dx.doi.org/10.17507/tpls.0905.09.

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Kurt Vonnegut is admitted as a great master of postmodern writer. Vonnegut’s success is mainly attributed to his unique narrative approaches, various expressive methods and dramatic artistic effects. The application of metafiction is particularly obvious and significant in his novels. Slaughterhouse-Five is one of typical examples of the successful adoption of metafiction. The metafiction of Vonnegut’s style, applied in Slaughterhouse-Five, shows itself in three distinctive approaches—non-linear narrative, collage and parody. Based on postmodern narrative theory, the application of these three distinctive narrative techniques will be analyzed in details in this thesis. The analysis mainly includes the reasons why they are applied in the novel and the functions how they work. The paper is mainly divided into five parts. Relevant information of Vonnegut, postmodern metafiction and previous researches are introduced in the first chapter. After getting better acquainted with basic knowledge, three narrative methods of Vonnegut’s metafiction including non-linear narrative, collage and parody are separately and detailedly analyzed in the following three chapters. Every method applied in the novel deepens the anti-war theme, and then exposes war’s evilness and absurdity further. Finally, the last part is a conclusion which is an emphasis on effects of Vonnegut’s unique narrative techniques.

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Kavalir, Monika. "Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five : a functional grammar perspective." Acta Neophilologica 39, no. 1-2 (December 1, 2006): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.39.1-2.41-50.

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The paper tries to analyse the style of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five with the tool of Hallidayan systemic-functional grammar. Its aim is to explore in what way the syntactic and thematic structure helps construct the sentiment of fatalism and simplicity, and how it reinforces the novel's concept of time.

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Byungjoo Park. "Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five: Postmodern Narrative and History Rewriting." Jungang Journal of English Language and Literature 56, no. 4 (December 2014): 135–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18853/jjell.2014.56.4.007.

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Bring, Ove. "HUMANITARIAN LAW AND LITERATURE: FROM UTOPIA TO SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE." Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law 10 (December 2007): 3–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1389135907000037.

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AbstractThe article identifies humanitarian law related thought in some works of world literature. A starting point is Thomas More'sUtopia(1516). Since Judge T. Meron has dealt extensively with Shakespeare from a similar perspective, the works referred to in the article (exceptUtopia) are all post-Shakespearean. The exposé ends with Kurt Vonnegut'sSlaughterhouse Five(1969) and some dry comments on the bombing of Dresden in that book.

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Jensen, Mikkel. "Janus-Headed Postmodernism: The Opening Lines of SLAUGHTERHOUSE-FIVE." Explicator 74, no. 1 (January 2, 2016): 8–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00144940.2015.1133546.

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van Stralen, Hans. "Slaughterhouse-Five, existentialist themes elaborated in a postmodernist way." Neophilologus 79, no. 1 (January 1995): 3–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/bf00999558.

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Işık, Onur. "Creating a Planet: A New-Historical Study on Slaughterhouse Five." Pamukkale University Journal of Social Sciences Institute 2016, no. 50 (2016): 357–65. http://dx.doi.org/10.5505/pausbed.2016.57689.

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Ponniah, R. Joseph. "Biblical Myths and Humanism in Cat’s Cradle and Slaughterhouse-Five." Anthropologist 11, no. 1 (January 2009): 21–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09720073.2009.11891074.

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宇, 田. "A Study of Slaughterhouse Five from the Perspective of Ecocriticism." World Literature Studies 02, no. 02 (2014): 36–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.12677/wls.2014.22006.

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THORBERG, B. M., and A. ENGVALL. "Incidence of Salmonella in Five Swedish Slaughterhouses." Journal of Food Protection 64, no. 4 (April 1, 2001): 542–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-64.4.542.

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Five Swedish slaughterhouses where pig slaughter takes place were sampled and tested for Salmonella. Each slaughterhouse was visited six times, and sampling was done repeatedly at specific points in the slaughter line during the day. Both sampling of pork carcasses and the slaughterhouse environment was done. This study was part of a larger European project, entitled Salmonella in Pork (Salinpork), with the aim of identifying specific risk points or risk factors associated with Salmonella contamination that contribute to health hazards for humans. During the study, a total of 3,388 samples from the five slaughterhouses were collected and cultured for Salmonella. All of the samples were culture negative for Salmonella.

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Ansu Louis. "The Economy of Desire in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five." symplokē 26, no. 1-2 (2018): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.5250/symploke.26.1-2.0191.

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LURIE, JONATHAN. "One Hundred and Twenty-Five Years after Slaughterhouse: Where's the Beef?" Journal of Supreme Court History 24, no. 3 (December 1999): 269–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5818.1999.tb00167.x.

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Fatma, Khalil Mostafa el Diwany. "So it goes: A postmodernist reading of Kurt Vonneguts Slaughterhouse-Five." International Journal of English and Literature 5, no. 4 (June 30, 2014): 82–90. http://dx.doi.org/10.5897/ijel2013.0548.

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Aliero, Adamu Almustapha, Namadina Hassan Jega, Ahmad Ibrahim Bagudo, Sahabi Sule Manga, and Kabiru Hussaini. "Antibiotics Resistance Pattern of Coliform Bacteria Isolated from Slaughterhouse Wastewater in Jega Town, Kebbi State, Nigeria." Borneo Journal of Pharmacy 3, no. 3 (August 31, 2020): 170–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.33084/bjop.v3i3.1530.

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Wastewater is an essential reservoir of pathogenic bacteria, which include resistant strains. This study determined the antibiotics resistance pattern of Coliform bacteria isolated from slaughterhouse wastewater in Jega local government. Five different samples of wastewater from different locations of a slaughterhouse were collected using standard sample collection techniques. Coliform bacteria were isolated using the standard microbiological method. The total bacterial count was determined using plate count agar. Suspected coliforms were identified based on morphological and biochemical tests. Antimicrobial susceptibility testing was carried out using the standard disc diffusion method. The highest bacterial count (8.4x102 CFU/ml) was observed from the wastewater collection point, and the lowest bacterial (1.2x102 CFU/ml) count from the slaughtering point. Three Gram-negative bacteria, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Enterobacter aerogenes, were identified. Escherichia coli was the most frequently isolated in slaughterhouse wastewater 39 (45.8%). Among the antibiotics tested against isolated bacteria, Septrin was the most resistant antibiotics recorded against E. coli and E. aerogenes with 84.61% and 88.89% resistant, respectively. Pseudomonas aeruginosa was found to show higher resistance to Chloramphenicol and Septrin with 84.21% resistance each. The occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria from slaughterhouse wastewater showed the risks associated with antimicrobial drug resistance transferred from food-producing animals to humans. Management concerns, such as local government health officers and community development officers, should increase the sensitization of slaughterhouse workers by organizing conferences or conducting radio talk to educates these slaughterhouse workers on the treatment of slaughterhouse wastewater and health risk associated with antimicrobial-drug resistance transferred from animals to humans.

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Sofyan, Ilhamdi Hafiz. "“There Is No Good War”: The Firebombing of Dresden and Kurt Vonnegut’s View Towards World War II in Slaughterhouse-Five." Vivid Journal of Language and Literature 6, no. 2 (July 23, 2019): 60. http://dx.doi.org/10.25077/vj.6.2.60-67.2017.

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This study discusses Kurt Vonnegut's view of war reflected in his novel Slaughterhouse-Five and also his efforts in conveying his views through his novel. This novel is based on the experience of Kurt Vonnegut during World War II when he was imprisoned in a German city called Dresden and witnessed the destruction of the city on February 13, 1945 in an Allied bombing operation. In the novel, Vonnegut rewrote his experience in the form of a fiction. In discussing this literary work, I used the expressive theory by M. H. Abrams which was supported by a historical and biographical approach. In analyzing this literary work, I took quotes from the novel Slaughterhouse-Five as the main data as well as other data as secondary data, such as the biography of the author, interviews with the author taken from various sources, as well as writings on author that is relevant to the discussion in this study. The result show that Kurt Vonnegut see war as something that was completely meaningless and only caused destruction and death for innocent residents. Kurt Vonnegut uses narrative techniques such as black humor, irony, and metaphysics at Slaughterhouse-Five so that his views on war can be conveyed to his readers.

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Cacicedo, Alberto. ""You must remember this": Trauma and Memory in Catch-22 and Slaughterhouse-Five." Critique: Studies in Contemporary Fiction 46, no. 4 (July 1, 2005): 357–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.3200/crit.46.4.357-368.

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Singh, Sukhbir. "Time, War and The Bhagavad Gita: A Rereading of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five." Comparative Critical Studies 7, no. 1 (February 2010): 83–103. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/e1744185409000962.

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Lerate de Castro, Jesús. "The narrative function of Kilgore Trout and his fictional works in Slaughterhouse-Five." Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses, no. 7 (1994): 115–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/raei.1994.7.09.

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Brown, Kevin. "The Psychiatrists Were Right: Anomic Alienation in Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five." South Central Review 28, no. 2 (2011): 101–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/scr.2011.0022.

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Kunze, Peter C. "For the Boys: Masculinity, Gray Comedy, and the Vietnam War in “Slaughterhouse-Five”." Studies in American Humor 26 (January 1, 2012): 41–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.26.2012.0041.

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Sakaridis, Ioannis, Theofilos Papadopoulos, Evridiki Boukouvala, Loukia Ekateriniadou, Georgios Samouris, and Antonios Zdragas. "Prevalence, Antimicrobial Resistance, and Molecular Typing of Thermophilic Campylobacter Spp. in a Greek Poultry Slaughterhouse." Acta Veterinaria 69, no. 3 (September 1, 2019): 325–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/acve-2019-0027.

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Abstract Campylobacter species are one of the leading causes of foodborne disease. Poultry is a major reservoir and source of its transmission to humans. The aim of this study was to estimate the prevalence and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter spp. isolated from chicken carcasses, the environment, and processing equipment of a poultry slaughterhouse in Greece, to identify the dominant Campylobacter species and to determine if there are clonal relationships among the isolates. Fifty poultry samples and 25 environmental samples were examined using microbial cultures and PCR. Forty-nine of 50 poultry samples (98%) were found to be positive for Campylobacter spp. The environment of the slaughterhouse was also found to be significantly contaminated with Campylobacter spp. Thirty-seven isolates were found to be susceptible to all antimicrobials tested (56.1%) and 29 isolates showed resistance to at least two of the antimicrobials tested (43.9%). We observed 24 different PFGE-types among the 53 isolates with 14 of them isolated only once, while five PFGE-types were represented by two isolates. The remaining 29 isolates were represented by five PFGE-types each consisting of three to 12 isolates. Regarding the relationship of the PFGE types and corresponding resistance profiles, all strains of each PFGE-type shared the same antimicrobial resistance profile. This study reports evidence for Campylobacter spp. cross-contamination among broiler carcasses in a Greek slaughterhouse.

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ATANASSOVA, VIKTORIA, VOLKER KESSEN, FELIX REICH, and GÜNTER KLEIN. "Incidence of Arcobacter spp. in Poultry: Quantitative and Qualitative Analysis and PCR Differentiation." Journal of Food Protection 71, no. 12 (December 1, 2008): 2533–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-71.12.2533.

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Arcobacter is part of the family Campylobacteraceae. As with the genus Campylobacter, Arcobacter is found responsible for human gastrointestinal infection, and it is assumed to originate from poultry meat sources. Samples from poultry slaughtering originating from a broiler slaughterhouse and a turkey slaughterhouse were analyzed for Arcobacter. Five broiler flocks and five turkey flocks were analyzed in the course of slaughtering and processing for the prevalence of Arcobacter. The prevalence in broilers was 43.0%, while turkey samples were contaminated with 18.2% of positive samples. The numbers of Arcobacter present on turkey skin samples ranged between 1.7 and 2.4 log CFU/cm2. The prevalence changes during processing showed an increase after chilling in broilers, whereas there was a constant decrease in turkey processing. Species identification showed that all three Arcobacter spp. of relevance in human infection could be isolated, with A. butzleri being found at higher prevalence, which was followed by A. skirrowii and A. cryaerophilus.

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Lubis, Bryan Ahmad Affan, Setiawan Koesdarto, Eka Pramyrtha Hestinah, Kusnoto Kusnoto, Lucia Tri Suwanti, and Muchammad Yunus. "Prevalence of Small Intestine Cestodes in Goat at Pegirian Slaughterhouse Surabaya." Journal of Parasite Science 3, no. 1 (December 4, 2019): 37. http://dx.doi.org/10.20473/jops.v3i1.16435.

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This study was conducted to determine the prevalence of small Intestine cestodes in goat at Pegirian Slaughterhouse Surabaya with gastrointestinal dissection method. Thirty-six samples of goat’s small intestine, twenty-five from Kacang goats and eleven from Ettawa-cross (PE) goats, were collected from Pegirian Slaughterhouse Surabaya on May 2018. Fresh adult worms were collected with gastrointestinal dissection and microscopically identified. The result showed that cestodes infections could be identified in three (12%) of Kacang goats and three (27.27%) of PE goats. The cestode infections were identified five positive samples (19.23%) in male goat and one positive sample (10%) in female goat, while determined by the ages found three positive samples (17.64%) in under two years old goats and three positive samples (15.78%) in more than or equal two years old goats. The Chi-Square statistical test (p >0.05) showed there was no significant correlation from the race, sex, and ages of goats on the prevalence of Moniezia expansa.

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Cavenati, Simone, Pedro N. Carvalho, C. Marisa R. Almeida, M. Clara P. Basto, and M. Teresa S. D. Vasconcelos. "Simultaneous determination of several veterinary pharmaceuticals in effluents from urban, livestock and slaughterhouse wastewater treatment plants using a simple chromatographic method." Water Science and Technology 66, no. 3 (August 1, 2012): 603–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wst.2012.218.

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Minocycline, oxytetracycline, tetracycline, enrofloxacin and ceftiofur, commonly used veterinary pharmaceuticals, were searched in four urban, two livestock and two slaughterhouse effluents from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) in the north of Portugal. A simple method that includes solid-phase extraction followed with analysis by high-performance liquid chromatography with diode array detector was established and applied to the simultaneous determination of the five pharmaceuticals in WWTP effluents. This method, which is expeditious, inexpensive and available in most laboratories, showed to be useful for screening for problematic levels of drugs in WWTP effluents. It is known that several livestock and slaughterhouse effluents (pre-treated or treated) are discharged to the urban network before discharge into the environment. The presence of these drugs in such effluents can constitute a significant environmental problem that should be addressed, by the monitoring of these drugs and by implementation of methodologies that contribute to their decrease/elimination from wastewaters. Minocycline (≤6 μg L−1), oxytetracycline (≤7 μg L−1), tetracycline (≤6 μg L−1) and enrofloxacin (<2 μg L−1) could be detected and/or quantified in three urban effluents. Detectable levels of enrofloxacin (<2 μg L−1) and quantifiable levels of tetracycline (≤15 μg L−1) were found in the slaughterhouse effluents.

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Czajkowska, Aleksandra. "“To give form to what cannot be comprehended”: Trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow." Crossroads A Journal of English Studies, no. 34(3) (2021): 59–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.15290/cr.2021.34.3.05.

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The primary objective of this article is the analysis of trauma in Kurt Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five and Martin Amis’s Time’s Arrow. It is argued that through the deployment of experimental literary techniques (particularly destabilized and non-linear narratives) these two novels offer valuable insights into the mechanisms of a traumatized mind and help to understand the uncertain sense of the self experienced by those who suffer from traumatic memories.

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TUTENEL, ANN V., DENIS PIERARD, JAN VAN HOOF, and LIEVEN DE ZUTTER. "Molecular Characterization of Escherichia coli O157 Contamination Routes in a Cattle Slaughterhouse." Journal of Food Protection 66, no. 9 (September 1, 2003): 1564–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x-66.9.1564.

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In a cattle slaughterhouse, sampling was performed over a 1-week period to examine the prevalence and possible contamination routes of Escherichia coli O157. Each sampling day, swab samples were collected from the slaughterhouse environment before onset of slaughter, from the slaughterline, and from 20 successively slaughtered animals. Isolation of E. coli O157 consisted of a 6-hour enrichment followed by immunomagnetic separation and selective plating. From the 394 samples taken, 84 (21%) were positive for E. coli O157. Pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of collected isolates produced 26 different profiles, from which 5 PFGE profiles carried two or more Stx genes. The combination of PFGE profiles and Stx types resulted in 32 different E. coli O157 types. E. coli O157 was found in the slaughterhouse environment before the onset of slaughter. The first two sampling days, feces and carcasses were found negative. On the third sampling day, five fecal samples and four carcasses from animals negative in the feces were positive. Hide of the anal region and the shoulder were found positive every sampling day. The shoulder hide was more than twice as contaminated as the anal region hide. Typing of different isolates from a sample showed that frequently different E. coli O157 types were presented. On sampling days 1 and 2, types present in the environment and on the hides of the slaughtered animals differed. On the third sampling day, two dominant types were found in the environment (even before the onset of slaughter), as well as on the hides, feces, and carcasses. Although examined animals originated from different farms, one (two on day 3) dominant E. coli O157 type was present on their hides each sampling day. These data indicated that (i) the progress of contamination can differ from day to day within a slaughterhouse and (ii) contact between animals after the departure from the farm can have a large effect on the spread of E. coli O157 hide contamination.

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Philipsen, Mark P., and Thomas B. Moeslund. "Cutting Pose Prediction from Point Clouds." Sensors 20, no. 6 (March 11, 2020): 1563. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s20061563.

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The challenge of getting machines to understand and interact with natural objects is encountered in important areas such as medicine, agriculture, and, in our case, slaughterhouse automation. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the application of Deep Neural Networks (DNN) directly to point clouds, an efficient and natural representation of 3D objects. The potential of these methods has mostly been demonstrated for classification and segmentation tasks involving rigid man-made objects. We present a method, based on the successful PointNet architecture, for learning to regress correct tool placement from human demonstrations, using virtual reality. Our method is applied to a challenging slaughterhouse cutting task, which requires an understanding of the local geometry including the shape, size, and orientation. We propose an intermediate five-Degree of Freedom (DoF) cutting plane representation, a point and a normal vector, which eases the demonstration and learning process. A live experiment is conducted in order to unveil issues and begin to understand the required accuracy. Eleven cuts are rated by an expert, with 8 / 11 being rated as acceptable. The error on the test set is subsequently reduced through the addition of more training data and improvements to the DNN. The result is a reduction in the average translation from 1.5 cm to 0.8 cm and the orientation error from 4.59° to 4.48°. The method’s generalization capacity is assessed on a similar task from the slaughterhouse and on the very different public LINEMOD dataset for object pose estimation across view points. In both cases, the method shows promising results. Code, datasets, and other materials are available in Supplementary Materials.

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Ivanovic, S., M. Zutic, and I. Pavlovic. "Presence of Listeria monocytogenes at goats." Biotehnologija u stocarstvu 26, no. 3-4 (2010): 193–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/bah1004193i.

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Listeriosis is the infectious disease of numerous mammals' species, including cattle, sheep, goat, pigs, and humans. Cause is Listeria monocytogenes, widespread in the nature and relatively resistant microorganism. Listeria come in environment by excretes of sick humans and animals as well as of clinically healthy organisms. This microorganism can be found in waste and water, soil, plants, feedstuffs, walls and floors of the buildings where live animals, various kinds of foods of plant and animal origin, as well as in animals and people. In goats, the disease is manifested in the form of abortion, encephalitis and septicemia. After infection, sometimes there are no clinical symptoms and goats come to the slaughterhouse as clinically healthy animals (latent infection). When the goats come to the slaughterhouse, it is n not necessary the transmission of the cause to meat, but it can be transferred to the equipment, walls, floors, aprons and boots. In our study, twenty clinically healthy goats, slaughtered in slaughterhouse, were tested - one hyperemic uterus and meat of all goats. Floor swabs (from nine different locations) and swabs from the carriage bottom (20 swabs) in which were placed intestines and uterus were taken three days after slaughter. Uterus and carriage swabs were tested according to method RES, chapter 2.10.14.B.1. and meat by ISO 11290 / 1:1996 (E). From the uterus, which was slightly hyperemic it was isolated Listeria monocytogenes and from five samples of floor and three samples of the carriages. It was not isolated from meat samples. These results indicate the possibility of indirect transmission of this bacterium to meat.

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Schenck, Andrew. "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Comparing the Christian “God of War” in Beowulf and Slaughterhouse Five." British and American Language and Literature Association of Korea, no. 131 (December 31, 2018): 395–414. http://dx.doi.org/10.21297/ballak.2018.131.395.

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Michael, Semba, Chrisogoni Paschal, Thomas Kivevele, Mwemezi J. Rwiza, and Karoli N. Njau. "Performance investigation of the slaughterhouse wastewater treatment facility: a case of Mwanza City Slaughterhouse, Tanzania." Water Practice and Technology 15, no. 4 (September 18, 2020): 1096–110. http://dx.doi.org/10.2166/wpt.2020.085.

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Abstract The present study engaged onsite operations and laboratory analysis for Mwanza City Slaughterhouse (MCS) wastewater to improve the efficiency of wastewater treatment of a newly installed facility. The MCS wastewater treatment facility is integrated with various units-biodigester, aeration unit, retention, clarifier, and a constructed wetland. During the initial runs, the MCS facility removed 87.5%, 92.2%, 43%, and 65.4% of effluent biochemical oxygen demand (BOD5), chemical oxygen demand (COD), ammonium, and nitrate, respectively. After conducting effective plant operations for five months, the removal efficiencies of BOD5, COD, ammonium, and nitrate improved to 97.4%, 98.3%, 97.4%, and 97.6%, respectively. In the present study, the unit-by-unit performance values achieved as a result of alterations to the facility's running conditions are presented. The MCS wastewater treatment facility was found to be energy-positive, as it produced an average of 158.2 m3 biogas per day. This amount of biogas, if converted to electricity, would be sufficient to run the facility operations. Generally, the MCS wastewater treatment facility attained the best performance as per design, achieving the effluent levels recommended by the Tanzania Bureau of Standards (TBS).

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Alzahrani, Saad M. "Evaluation of triflumuron and pyriproxyfen as alternative candidates to control house fly, Musca domestica L. (Diptera: Muscidae), in Riyadh city, Saudi Arabia." PLOS ONE 16, no. 4 (April 8, 2021): e0249496. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0249496.

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This study was conducted to determine the susceptibility and resistance of some house fly strains of Musca domestica L. to the insect growth regulator insecticides triflumuron and pyriproxyfen in some locations in Riyadh city. Field-collected strains of M. domestica L. from five sites in Riyadh city that represented five slaughterhouse sites where flies spread significantly were tested against triflumuron and pyriproxyfen. Triflumuron LC50 values for the five collected strains ranged from 2.6 to 5.5 ppm, and the resistance factors (RFs) ranged from 13-fold to 27-fold that of the susceptible laboratory strain. Pyriproxyfen LC50 values for the field strains ranged from 0.9 to 1.8 ppm with RFs of 3-fold to 5-fold. These results indicate that pyriproxyfen is an effective insecticide to control house flies and should be used in rotation with other insecticides in the control programs applied by Riyadh municipality.

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BATTISTI, A., S. LOVARI, A. FRANCO, A. Di EGIDIO, R. TOZZOLI, A. CAPRIOLI, and S. MORABITO. "Prevalence of Escherichia coli O157 in lambs at slaughter in Rome, central Italy." Epidemiology and Infection 134, no. 2 (September 30, 2005): 415–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0950268805005236.

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A study on the prevalence of the faecal carriage of Escherichia coli O157 in lambs was performed in the major slaughterhouse in Rome, central Italy, during 2002. A total of 643 animals, consisting of 378 weaned and 265 suckling lambs, were assayed for the presence of E. coli O157. Five O157-agglutinating E. coli strains were isolated (0·8%, 95% CI 0·3–1·9). Only one was positive to PCR specific for the eae gene and produced verocytotoxin VT2, with a VTEC O157 overall prevalence of 0·2% (95% CI 0·0–1·0), whereas one strain possessed the eae gene only. All the other isolates were negative for the presence of all the virulence genes considered. The animals were either from local farms or imported from Eastern Europe. The results suggest an age-specific difference since the microorganism was isolated only from 0·3% (95% CI 0·0–1·7) of weaned lambs, while all samples from suckling lambs tested negative. From this study, the overall risk of human exposure to pathogenic E. coli O157 from lamb meat consumption derived from the major slaughterhouse in Rome can be considered reasonably low, particularly when suckling lamb meat is considered.

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Kuus, Kaisa, Toomas Kramarenko, Jelena Sõgel, Mihkel Mäesaar, Maria Fredriksson-Ahomaa, and Mati Roasto. "Prevalence and Serotype Diversity of Salmonella enterica in the Estonian Meat Production Chain in 2016–2020." Pathogens 10, no. 12 (December 14, 2021): 1622. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10121622.

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Background: Salmonella enterica represents a considerable public concern worldwide, with farm animals often recognised as an important reservoir. This study gives an overview of the prevalence and serotype diversity of Salmonella over a 5-year period in the meat production chain in Estonia. Data on human salmonellosis over the same period are provided. Methods: Salmonella surveillance data from 2016 to 2020 were analysed. Results: The prevalence of Salmonella at the farm level was 27.7%, 3.3% and 0.1% for fattening pigs, cattle and poultry, respectively. S. Derby was the most prevalent serotype at the farm level for fattening pigs and S. Dublin for cattle. The top three serotypes isolated at the slaughterhouse and meat cutting levels were S. Derby, monophasic S. Typhimurium and S. Typhimurium with proportions of 64.7%, 9.4% and 7.0%, respectively. These serotypes were the top five most common Salmonella serotypes responsible for human infections in Estonia. S. Enteritidis is the main cause (46.9%) of human salmonellosis cases in Estonia, but in recent years, Enteritidis has not been detected at the slaughterhouse or meat cutting level. Conclusion: In recent years, monophasic S. Typhimurium has become epidemiologically more important in Estonia, with the second-highest cause in human cases and third-highest among the most prevalent serotypes of Salmonella enterica in the meat chain.

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Sudi, Ismaila Yada, Ibrahim Sanusi, Maryam Usman Ahmed, and Clifford L. Barnabas. "Determination of Heavy Metals and Anti-nutrient Residues in Selected Organs of Bovines Commonly Slaughtered in Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria." Dutse Journal of Pure and Applied Sciences 7, no. 3a (January 10, 2022): 94–102. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/dujopas.v7i3a.10.

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This study was conducted to determine the concentrations of heavy metals (Lead, Chromium, Copper, Cadmium and Zinc) and anti-nutrients residues (phytate and oxalate) in cattle (bovines) organs slaughtered at Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Nigeria slaughterhouse. Different organs (kidney, liver, lungs, heart and spleen) were collected randomly from five different bovines as samples from slaughterhouse and were brought to the laboratory for analysis. All of the heavy metals analyzed were detected with Lead presenting 293.07 ± 163.53 mg/kg in lung, 2.97 ± 0.39 mg/kg Zinc in heart, 0.632 + 0,3724 mg/kg Cadmium, 1.53 + 1.48 2.972 2.97 ± 0.39 mg/kg Copper, 4.0E-4 ± 2.0E-4 mg/kg Chromium in liver, while highest concentration 0.63 ± 0.37 mg/kg of Cadmium and 1.53 ± 1.48 mg/kg Copper was found in spleen. The concentrations of Lead, Zinc, Copper, Cadmium and Chromium detected exceeds the recommended maximum acceptable levels proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO) which are Cadmium 0.5 mg/kg, Lead 0.30 mg/kg, Zinc 0.2 mg/kg, Chromium 1.00 mg/kg, Copper 0.1- 0.50 mg/kg. The results from this study indicate that heavy metal toxicity could result from the consumption of organs of bovines (cows) feed within contaminated areas of Federal Polytechnic Mubi, Adamawa State, Nigeria. Keywords: Anti-nutrient, Bovines, Heavy metals, Organs, Slaughter

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Jung-hoon Jang. "The Narratives of Traumatic Memory, Amnesia, and Healing: Focused on Slaughterhouse-Five & In the Lake of the Woods." Journal of English Language and Literature 65, no. 1 (March 2019): 87–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.15794/jell.2019.65.1.005.

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Kungu, Joseph Morison, Matthias Afayoa, and Michel Maïnack Dione. " Taenia solium cysticercosis survey at a slaughterhouse in Kampala, Uganda." Revue d’élevage et de médecine vétérinaire des pays tropicaux 73, no. 4 (November 25, 2020): 277–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.19182/remvt.31944.

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A survey was conducted at Wambizi slaughterhouse in Kampala City, Uganda, to ascertain the prevalence of Taenia species infection in pigs via serology, as well as the role of meat inspection in control of these parasitic conditions in carcasses of slaughtered pigs. A total of 620 pigs were sampled using simple random selection during three months. Individual pig data including sex, breed, district of origin, antemortem clinical signs and postmortem lesions were recorded. Blood samples were collected for serological assays. A questionnaire was used to capture perceptions of meat inspectors and pig traders on T. solium cysticercosis. Of the 620 pig inspected carcasses, only four were observed with T. solium cysts and none had T. hydatigena cysts. Up to 67 (10.8%) pigs tested positive by B158C11A10/B60H8A4 Ag-ELISA serology. Seroprevalences were significantly different between districts (χ2 = 45.98; p < 0.001) with pigs from the Eastern districts having the highest seroprevalence. The two meat inspectors at the slaughterhouse had knowledge of pork inspection protocol for Taenia spp. infections, although they did not follow it properly because of the high number of carcasses to be inspected daily. All the 15 traders interviewed had heard about porcine cysticercosis but only five had ever seen cystic pork. T. solium cysticercosis is still prevailing in pigs in Uganda. Meat inspection is not a reliable diagnostic tool for efficient detection of T. solium cysticercosis.

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Hinchcliffe, Richard. "Would'st thou be in a dream: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress and Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five." European Journal of American Culture 20, no. 3 (November 1, 2002): 183–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ejac.20.3.183.

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Cerbito, W. A., M. P. B. Wijayagunawardane, M. Takagi, K. Sato, A. Miyamoto, and M. Ohtani. "Comparison of bovine uterine horns for progesterone and oxytocin levels with bilateral corpus luteum." Canadian Journal of Animal Science 76, no. 3 (September 1, 1996): 463–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4141/cjas96-068.

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Bovine uterine horns with both ovaries containing a corpus luteum (CL) were compared for progesterone (P4) and oxytocin (OT) concentrations during the luteal phase of the estrous cycle. Uterine tissue samples from five Holstein cows with bilateral CL obtained from the slaughterhouse were used for this study. No significant difference was observed in P4 and OT levels in the right and left horns with corpora lutea in both ovaries. The data clearly indicate that both sides of the uterine horn having a functional CL are exposed to similar levels of P4 and OT, supporting the hypothesis that luteal products are delivered locally to the uterus. Key words: Progesterone, oxytocin, uterine horn, bilateral, corpus luteum, cow

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Wei, Jiapei, Gefu Liang, James Alex, Tongchao Zhang, and Chunbo Ma. "Research Progress of Energy Utilization of Agricultural Waste in China: Bibliometric Analysis by Citespace." Sustainability 12, no. 3 (January 22, 2020): 812. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su12030812.

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Energy utilization of agricultural waste, due to the depletion of petroleum resources and the continuous deterioration of the ecological environment, has become an increasingly important development area at present, with broad prospects. The Citespace software was used to systematically summarize the research hotspots, development, and frontiers of researches on the energy utilization of agricultural waste in China from 1999 to 2018. The results show that (1) the number of publications in this field has increased, which includes a steady development stage, a rapid development stage, and a fluctuation and decline stage. (2) Research hotspots focused on technology for energy utilization of agricultural waste, benefits analysis of energy utilization of agricultural waste, energy conversion and upgrading path of agricultural waste, and energy potential of agricultural waste. (3) Development of research hotspots go through five stages: “technology for energy utilization of straw and the disposal of livestock and poultry waste”, “exploration of energy utilization mode of agricultural waste and the disposal of by-product from energy utilization of agricultural waste”, “technology upgrading from agricultural waste to fuel ethanol and recycling of livestock and poultry waste”, “resource recycling of by-product from biogas ” and “energy utilization of livestock and slaughterhouse waste”. It has revealed the focus in this field was changing from planting waste to breeding waste, and from unprocessed waste to by-product from energy utilization. (4) Energy utilization of slaughterhouse waste and cow manure has started to be considered as the frontiers of researches.

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MELONI, DOMENICO, FRANCESCA PIRAS, ANNA MUREDDU, FEDERICA FOIS, SIMONETTA GIANNA CONSOLATI, SONIA LAMON, and RINA MAZZETTE. "Listeria monocytogenes in Five Sardinian Swine Slaughterhouses: Prevalence, Serotype, and Genotype Characterization." Journal of Food Protection 76, no. 11 (November 1, 2013): 1863–67. http://dx.doi.org/10.4315/0362-028x.jfp-12-505.

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In a 3-year study (2008 to 2011) to estimate the prevalence and the contamination sources of Listeria monocytogenes in pork meat in Sardinia, Italy, 211 samples were collected from five Sardinian swine slaughterhouses: 171 samples from slaughtered pigs and 40 from the slaughterhouse environment. Fifty L. monocytogenes isolates were characterized by PCR-based serotyping, presence of virulence-associated genes, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis restriction analysis. The overall prevalence of L. monocytogenes was 33% in swine carcasses, 7% in cecal material, 23% on meat contact surfaces, and 25% on noncontact surfaces. Only two serotypes were detected: 1/2c (78%) and 1/2a (22%). In all, based on the presence of virulence-associated genes, eight pathogenic profiles were detected. Only 42% of all isolates carried the full complement of virulence-associated genes and were allotted to profile 1. Six pulsed-field gel electrophoresis profiles persisted in the slaughterhouses; restriction profiles appeared to be specific to each plant.

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Gioso, M. M., E. P. Costa, C. A. C. Fernandes, T. A. R. Paula, and J. D. Guimarães. "Venous angioarchitecture of the bovine female genital organ." Arquivo Brasileiro de Medicina Veterinária e Zootecnia 57, no. 6 (December 2005): 715–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/s0102-09352005000600001.

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The venous angioarchitecture of the non-pregnant female genital organs from five cattle obtained from a slaughterhouse was studied for possible anastomoses of the vulva and vagina vasa and the uterus-ovary vein, with the aid of the X-ray technique. In the laboratory, a branch of the caudal vaginal vein was injected with radiographic contrast. Vaginal vein formed and anastomotic network in the ventral surface of the uterus between the right and left sides. The genitals present anastomoses of the vulvar and vaginal veins with vasa of cervix, body and uterine horns and suggest that a portion of luteolytic agents injected through intravulvosubmucosal route can be transported directly to the ovary through a local route before reaching the systemic circulation.

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Jankovic, Ljiljana, Radislava Teodorovic, Marijana Vucinic, Stefan Pintaric, Milutin Djordjevic, Mila Savic, Nedjeljko Karabasil, and Katarina Nenadovic. "Omissions in the disinfection of a craft-slaughterhouse." Biotehnologija u stocarstvu 34, no. 1 (2018): 107–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.2298/bah1801107j.

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The aim of this study was to establish the difference in the total number of bacteria present on some surfaces after disinfection was performed either by a professional or a layman employed at the slaughterhouse. Based upon the obtained results it can be concluded that there were omissions in the disinfection procedure. The study material consisted of wet and dry swabs taken during a five week period, before and after disinfection was performed either by a professional or a laymen. The following surfaces were sampled: meat carving knife, meat hooks, floor of the stunning area, and corridor floor. The procedure for wet swabs was carried out in accordance with the standard ISO 18593 method. The number of bacteria was estimated from each sample with the standard ISO 4833 method. Disinfection was performed with a 0.02% chlorine solution; the exposition time was 30 min. According to the obtained results it can be concluded that after disinfection was carried out by a professional- veterinarian, or by a layman, all surfaces which were previously treated correctly (mechanical cleaning and sanitary washing), and disinfected measured a significant decrease in the number of total bacteria (log cfu/cm2). The results for the total number of bacteria obtained after disinfection of the stunt area indicate on possible omissions as the number of bacteria did not decrease.

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Elabbasy, Mohamed Tharwat, Mohamed A. Hussein, Fahad Dhafer Algahtani, Ghada I. Abd El-Rahman, Alaa Eldin Morshdy, Ibrahim A. Elkafrawy, and Adeniyi A. Adeboye. "MALDI-TOF MS Based Typing for Rapid Screening of Multiple Antibiotic Resistance E. coli and Virulent Non-O157 Shiga Toxin-Producing E. coli Isolated from the Slaughterhouse Settings and Beef Carcasses." Foods 10, no. 4 (April 10, 2021): 820. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/foods10040820.

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Background: The emergence of multiple antibiotic resistance (MAR) Escherichia coli (E. coli) and virulent non-O157 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) poses a growing concern to the meat industry. Non-O157 STEC strains including O26, O45, O103, O111, O121, and O145 have been implicated in the occurrence of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in humans. This research assessed prevalence, matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization-time of flight mass-spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) protein mass-spectra profiles, multidrug-resistance traits, polymerase chain reaction detection of virulence, and antibiotic-resistance genes of E. coli isolated from beef carcasses and slaughterhouse environments. Methods: A total of 180 convenience sponge samples were collected from two different sources-specific parts of beef carcasses and surfaces of the processing environment at the slaughterhouse of Ha′il, Saudi Arabia between September and November 2020. MALDI BioTyper and phylotype-based identification methods accurately identified and classified the samples as belonging to the genus belonging to the Escherichia coli domain of bacteria (NCBI txid: 562). Results: Expected changes were seen in the mass peak spectrum defining nine closely related isolates and four unrelated E. coli isolates. Serological typing of E. coli revealed enterotoxigenic E. coli O166 (19.10%); enteropathogenic E. coli O146 (16.36%) and O44 (18.18%); enterohemorrhagic E. coli O111 (31.18%) and O26 (14.54%). Forty-five percent of examined E. coli were resistant to seven antimicrobials; 75% of 20 selected isolates were resistant to three or more antimicrobials. phoA and blaTEM genes were detected in all selected E. coli isolates. Conclusion: This study confirmed the efficiency and validity of Matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass-spectrometry in screening for multi-drug resistant E. coli isolated from slaughterhouse derived beef carcasses in Ha’il, Saudi Arabia. We contributed by revealing the distinction between related and non-related strains of E.coli in livestock. The findings in this study can inform improved policy development decision making and resource allocation related to livestock processing regarding antimicrobial use in food animals and rapid screening for effective multiple antibiotic resistance E. coli and virulent non-O157 STEC control in the slaughterhouses.

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Dalla Costa, Filipe Antonio, Osmar Antonio Dalla Costa, Izabela Cruvinel Di Castro, Neville George Gregory, Melissa Selaysim Di Campos, Guilherme Brunno de Medeiros Leal, and Fernando de Castro Tavernari. "Ease of Handling and Physiological Parameters of Stress, Carcasses, and Pork Quality of Pigs Handled in Different Group Sizes." Animals 9, no. 10 (October 14, 2019): 798. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ani9100798.

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The effect of different group sizes of pigs (3, 5, and 10 pigs) during handling on physiological parameters, carcasses, and pork quality traits at the farm and slaughterhouse were evaluated in 360 pigs from five farms (four repetitions or group/treatment/farms). Data was analyzed as a factorial of 3 × 5 (3 treatments × 5 farms) to check effects of treatments by analysis of variance in ANOVA. Ease of handling decreased as the group size increased. However, time taken in handling was not influenced by the group size (p > 0.10). Moving pigs in groups of five animals reduced effects on blood cortisol levels (p < 0.05). Fighting and handling lesions in the carcasses increased for bigger handling groups (p < 0.05). Pigs handled in groups of three and ten animals had a higher pHu and initial temperature in Longissimus thoracis and Semimembranosus (p < 0.05) and lower drip loss in Semimembranosus (p < 0.05). However, meat quality classifications of the carcasses were not affected by treatments. Based on the results, moving groups of five pigs seems to be the best strategy to improve animal welfare, carcasses and pork quality.

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Deutsche, Rosalyn. "Un-War: An Aesthetic Sketch." October 147 (January 2014): 3–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1162/octo_a_00163.

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Attempts to abolish war—not a particular war but war as a social institution—are often dismissed as utopian idealism, wild fantasies far removed from the realm of real politics. War, we are told, is inevitable. Humans are territorial and predatory beings. Besides, there has always been war. Who can forget the opening pages of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-Five, wherein the narrator says that he is writing an antiwar novel and his interlocutor replies, “You know what I say to people when I hear they're writing antiwar books? … I say, ‘Why don't you write an anti-glacier book instead?’” “What he meant, of course,” the narrator explains, “was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too.” (Of course, that was before global warming.)

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Gallagher, Rosemary. "“All this happened, more or less”: Making Sense of the War Experience Through Humor in “Slaughterhouse-Five” and “The Sirens of Titan”." Studies in American Humor 26 (January 1, 2012): 73–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/studamerhumor.26.2012.0073.

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