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... The study aimed to evaluate consumers’ perception of self-service foods’ nutrition labels. This qualitative and quantitative assessment was performed with potential consumers at food services. Four food labeling formats, traditional, simplified, traffic-light, and warning, were proposed to evaluate three types of sandwiches: simple, chicken, and hamburger. Data were collected via an online survey ...
... This paper examines an artefact type of unknown function, found in several places across medieval England. These artefacts are mostly made from goose radii, but other species, such as chicken and hare, are also known. The worked radii have often been interpreted as being related to writing, but a closer examination suggests that they are more likely to be awls. ...
... Valgus-varus deformity (VVD) is one of the leg disorders affecting health and welfare of broiler chickens. In research, several protocols are used to determine the prevalence and/or severity of VVD. This study aimed to investigate effects of five different protocols on the angulation of the tibiotarsal-tarsometatarsal joint. Angulation was determined (1) in living chickens with fixation at the fem ...
chickens, etc ; food preparation; occupations; wastes; Poland; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The article is the first presentation of detailed research of bird bones from six Teutonic Order castles built in the 13th century in the historical territory of Prussia, mainly in Terra Culmensis – the Kulmerland. The aim was to assess diachronic trends in bird exploitation at these sites. 28 different species were identified within the three historical periods represented in the occupation phase ...
chickens, etc ; animal welfare; fearfulness; poultry production; research; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Animal welfare is of general interest, and in the farming arena, efforts have increased to create optimal conditions for poultry production. Detailed and standardized studies on specific behavioral issues, such as fear, exploration, and social reinstatement behavior, are needed to support these initiatives. The variables mentioned can be directly queried from the animal in the open field to provid ...
chickens, etc ; adults; barns; binocular vision; eyes; head; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Barn owls, like primates, have frontally oriented eyes, which allow for a large binocular overlap. While owls have similar binocular vision and visual-search strategies as primates, it is less clear whether reflexive visual behavior also resembles that of primates or is more similar to that of closer related, but lateral-eyed bird species. Test cases are visual responses driven by wide-field movem ...
chickens, etc ; detection limit; ducks; fluorescence; hepatocytes; liver; microRNA; Show all 7 Subjects
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... MicroRNAs (miRNAs) play important roles in physiological and pathological processes of cells. To develop a fast, simple and sensitive method to determine miRNAs is significant for miRNA studies. In this work, determination of microRNA-122 (miR-122) was achieved by laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) detection. A vial–LIF interface was first applied for sample analysis. A two-step amplification of the ...
chickens, etc ; biocomposites; extrusion; keratin; polylactic acid; sodium hydroxide; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Polymer composites of polylactic acid (PLA) reinforced with rachis obtained from chicken feathers (0.5–1.0 wt %, 5–10 wt%) were developed by extrusion and additive manufacturing. Rachis was incorporated into the polymer after milling, and it was also milled and modified with sodium hydroxide (NaOH). Thermomechanical properties evaluated by dynamical mechanical analysis revealed significant increme ...
chickens, etc ; egg production; follicular development; gene expression; genes; ovulation; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Ovary follicular development is a progressive system from the beginning of small cortical follicles to the ovulation of hierarchical follicles. The review was conducted to provide information on the indigenous chickens commonly used for egg production, chicken ovarian follicles morphology and expression of growth differentiation factor 9 (GDF9) gene in ovarian follicles and its relationship with e ...
chickens, etc ; atmospheric deposition; coasts; dechlorination; eggs; research; topsoil; Vietnam; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Free-range chicken eggs and topsoil samples from private households in Southeast and South Central Coast of Vietnam were investigated to identify potential PCDD/F sources using Positive Matrix Factorization (PMF) approach. The PMF-extracted egg congener patterns were transformed to soil patterns using bioaccumulation factors and then compared to extracted soil and known dioxin sources patterns des ...
chickens, etc ; breast meat; fluorescence; fluorescent dyes; food chemistry; freshness; pH; Show all 7 Subjects
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... A fluorescent probe, Nap-MOR, based on the naphthalimide fluorophore, was designed and developed for pH measurement in aqueous solutions. Nap-MOR had a close linear relationship between fluorescence intensity and pH, in the range 4.5–8, which covers the full range of pH found in normal fresh, defective and spoiled meat. pH measurement with Nap-MOR was free from interference by a wide range of ions ...
chickens, etc ; Salmonella; adsorption; bacteriophages; host range; transmission electron microscopy; virology; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Salmonella contamination is a critical problem in poultry farms, with serious consequences for both animals and food products. The aim of this study is to investigate the use of phage cocktails to reduce Salmonella contamination in poultry farms. Within the scope of the study, Salmonella phages were isolated from chicken stool. After the host range of phages was determined, morphological character ...
broiler chickens, etc ; Japan; antibiotic resistance; ceftiofur; oxytetracycline; serotypes; streptomycin; sulfamethoxazole; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Ceftiofur, a third-generation cephalosporin antimicrobial, was used in Japanese hatcheries for many years before 2012. We continue to study Salmonella in broilers and their antimicrobial resistance. The current study aimed to express how the cessation of ceftiofur affects the antimicrobial resistance of Salmonella isolated from broiler chickens in Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan in 2017 and 2018. A to ...
chickens, etc ; Adenoviridae; live vaccines; polymerase chain reaction; serotypes; viruses; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Group-I Fowl adenovirus (FAdV) is still widespread in China's chicken farms, leading to huge economic losses. The traditional PCR method, which can detect all serotypes at the same time, is not sensitive enough to obtain accurate results, especially in some samples containing only a low titer of virus, such as contaminated live vaccine. In order to solve this problem, this study developed a dot bl ...
chickens, etc ; cell lines; coculture; epithelial cells; farms; models; organoids; swine; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Numerous bioactive plant additives have shown various positive effects in pigs and chickens. The demand for feed additives of natural origin has increased rapidly in recent years to support the health of farm animals and thus minimize the need for antibiotics and other drugs. Although only in vivo experiments can fully represent their effect on the organism, the establishment of reliable in vitro ...
chickens, etc ; capillary electrophoresis; electric field; electric potential difference; electroosmosis; hydrodynamics; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Pressure-assisted electrokinetic injection (PAEKI) was applied for stacking of positively charged biogenic amines (BAs) to improve the sensitivity of capillary electrophoresis (CE). It is well known that the essential step for PAEKI is finding a stationary state of the running buffer such that the movement of the running buffer due to electroosmotic flow (EOF) is counterbalanced by external pressu ...
chickens, etc ; breasts; chicken meat; fillets; heat treatment; temperature; turkey meat; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The effect of various cooking methods (roasting, broiling, grilling, frying, and stewing) on cooking loss (CL) and textural and sensory properties of selected chicken (breast fillet, thigh, and thigh fillet) and turkey (breast fillet, thigh) cuts in relation to the applied apparatus was evaluated. Diverse results were recorded according to the method, the type of poultry meat, and the cut of poult ...
chickens, etc ; collagen; fibroblasts; humans; mechanotransduction; retina; sclera; transmission electron microscopy; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Emmetropization is an active and visually guided process that involves the retina, choroid and sclera, and results in compensatory changes in eye growth. This guided growth is the result of visual cues and possibly mechanical interactions being translated into growth signals via molecular events from the retina into the choroid and sclera, through the choroidal scleral transition zone. If mechanic ...
chickens, etc ; avian influenza; disease transmission; hemagglutinins; lectins; polysaccharides; research; viruses; Show all 8 Subjects
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... Avian influenza viruses (AIVs) circulating in wild ducks are rarely transmitted directly to chickens. Previous studies demonstrated that chickens possess fucosylated and/or sulfated α2,3 sialosides on their tracheal epithelia, whereas intestinal epithelia of ducks express canonical α2,3 sialosides. Turkeys, the third major poultry species in the world, are known to show broad susceptibility to var ...
chickens, etc ; Brassica rapa subsp. chinensis; antibiotic resistance; biochar; pollution; research; soil; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Biochar has been used to alleviate the contamination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil and to inhibit ARGs transfer from soil to plants. However, the effect of aged biochar on ARGs abundance in soil and ARGs enrichment in plants are scarcely investigated. In this study, a pot experiment was conducted to compare the effects of fresh and aged biochars on the accumulation of five typical ...