{"title":"Beef safety and hygiene in the process of slaughtering bovine animals in a public Abattoir: A cross sectional study","authors":"Kapopo Mwewa Christelle, Mbutshu Lukuke Hendrick, Mukanda Gedeon Kadima, Okombe Embeya Victor, Malonga Kaj Francoise","doi":"10.47587/sa.2023.4208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2023.4208","url":null,"abstract":"Bovine meat is vital in the daily diet of populations in general and sub-Saharan Africa. However, the process of slaughtering cattle and the distribution route to the hands of consumers is still not respected. Thus, this study aimed to evaluate beef safety and hygiene from the slaughter process up to its marketing in the Lushois market.This was a cross-sectional descriptive observational study ( April 1st to September 1st, 2020). The study population consisted of cattle slaughterers, herders, veterinary inspectors, meat drivers and beef sellers from the public slaughterhouse in Lubumbashi. Data was collected using observation, semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis. Three (3) health conditions were encountered in beef portions from the public Abattoir in Lubumbashi: distomatosis, nephritis and cysts in the liver. To counteract this in the event of these health conditions was the scraping and ablation; lack of database on health problems encountered at the public slaughterhouse; All the bovine animals, i.e. 100% (254) of the bovine animals sent to the public slaughterhouse had no indication or document on their state of health. No microbiological or physicochemical analysis was carried out at the public Abattoir of Lubumbashi for the health monitoring of beefs.Hygiene conditions in the slaughtering process did not meet the standards of good hygiene practices in the breeding, slaughtering-cutting and charcuterie industries. Measures must therefore be taken at several levels by the players in the sector (public authorities, veterinarians and breeders) to guarantee the safety of foodstuffs of animal origin.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130220946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Responses of selected tropical forage legumes to imposed drought","authors":"Andi L. Amar, Robert A. Congdon","doi":"10.47587/sa.2022.3303","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2022.3303","url":null,"abstract":"Drought tolerance is an important attribute for the establishment of forage legumes in the rangelands of the seasonal semi-arid tropics. This experiment examined the seedling rooting depth, plant biomass, and other growth parameters of 5 perennial tropical legumes in response to different watering and drying regimes. Centrosema brasilianum cv. Oolloo and Macroptilium bracteatum (CPI 55770) produced deeper roots, greater root biomass, and more root nodules than Stylosanthes scabra cv. Seca and Desmanthus virgatus (CPI 79653), however only D. virgatus produced deeper roots and increased biomass in response to the drought treatment. Arachis triseminalis (CPI 91423), C. brasilianum and M. bracteatum flowered during the 9-week course of the experiment, with the latter two species producing pods. Seca, A. triseminalis and D. virgatus show adaptations of drought-tolerance, whilst C. brasilianum and M. bracteatum are adapted to drought avoidance.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"547 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131827886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. E. Sayed, F. Hellal, A. Hassan, Doaa M. Abobasha
{"title":"Economic evaluation of canola production as affected by compost and zinc application under water stress conditions","authors":"S. E. Sayed, F. Hellal, A. Hassan, Doaa M. Abobasha","doi":"10.47587/sa.2021.2301","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2021.2301","url":null,"abstract":"Canola has been introduced in Egypt recently as a promising new vegetable oil crop especially in the newly reclaimed lands usually exposed to different environmental stresses which limits their growth and productivity. Field experiment had been done Research and Production Station, National Research Centre, Nubaria location, Beheira Governorate, Egypt during 2019/2020 to study the economic analysis of compost (0, 2, 4, and 6 ton fed) and zinc (0, 50, and 100 ppm) application on Canola production under deficit irrigation condition. Results on the effect of compost and zinc application rate and their interactions under sufficient and deficit irrigation treatment observed that application of 6.0-ton compost fed combined with 100 ppm Zn increased the values of seed, straw, and oil yield of canola under sufficient and deficit irrigation treatments over the remaining treatment applied and control. Increased zinc application rate from 50 ppm to 100 ppm led to an increase in the seed yield, straw yield, and oil yield of canola. The Canola plant receiving 6-ton compost in combination with 100 ppm foliar application of Zinc registered the highest gross returns, net returns, Benefit: cost ratio of seed yield, straw yield, and oil yield an oil cake yield followed by 50 ppm Zn foliar application with the same compost level as compared to other treatments and control under sufficient and deficit irrigation treatment, respectively. This practice can help to obtain higher profit over the conventional application of a recommended dose of fertilizers to the canola crop.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"54 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132954454","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Eman A. Al-Rekabi, Amina Sabah Hashemi, Rana Talib Al-Muswie
{"title":"COVID-19 and Chronic Diseases: pathophysiology, clinical, gastrointestinal manifestation","authors":"Eman A. Al-Rekabi, Amina Sabah Hashemi, Rana Talib Al-Muswie","doi":"10.47587/sa.2021.2408","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2021.2408","url":null,"abstract":"The novel coronaviruses disease, namely COVID-19, caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), has spread worldwide and resulted in a crucial global health problem. Various studies and meta-analyses have demonstrated that chronic disease, including diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, and Gastrointestinal manifestations, are considered as risk factors for the disease severity, poor prognosis, and mortality in COVID-19. Although the exact reasons for the association between these comorbidities and disease severity and mortality risk of COVID-19 have not clarified, immune dysregulation and hyperinflammation in these chronic diseases might be contributing factors to the progression of the COVID-19. Furthermore, most of the patients with chronic inflammatory disease have the impairment of immune system and inflammatory response due to underlying pathogenesis of their diseases, and thus they might be prone to SARS-CoV-2 infection. We have focused the attention on most common chronic diseases frequently observed in COVID-19 which may be related to infection and their association with","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132265544","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cross sectional study on sterilization in a tertiary cardiac Hospital of Bangladesh","authors":"S. Zaman, Israt Sadia, Samina Haque, M. M. Rahman","doi":"10.47587/sa.2021.2407","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2021.2407","url":null,"abstract":"At any time, 1.4 million people suffer from healthcare associated infections. Reports have been published about the risk of infection caused by improper practice of sterilization. So the main objective of this research was to know the awareness, attitude, and practice among the healthcare staffs regarding the sterilization practice of a tertiary cardiac hospital in Bangladesh. 51 healthcare staffs from cardiac OT, cath lab and infection control department were the respondents of this cross sectional descriptive study & data was collected by a questionnaire survey from April 05, 2021 to May 03, 2021. The significant findings of this research are: 23.5% of the staffs had needle injury while working throughout their career. Among them only 3.9% reported to their authority and took treatment for that while the rest overlooked the matter completely and did not take the necessary precaution steps. Another significant finding is 80.4% of the staffs have been vaccinated against Hepatitis B, still 19.60% haven’t take vaccine. This type of study should be done regularly by the hospital authority to find out the lacking of the hospital.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"99 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115755660","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Detection of skin melanoma using deep learning approach","authors":"Husam Khalaf Salih Juboori","doi":"10.47587/sa.2021.2410","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2021.2410","url":null,"abstract":"Skin cancer is now well recognized as a leading cause of death in humans. Skin cancer is defined as the abnormal proliferation of skin cells on the human body that has been exposed to sunlight for an extended period. Skin cancer can develop in any place on the female organism. Most malignancies are treatable if caught in their early stages. As a result, it is critical to discover skin cancer at an early stage to save the patient's life. With modern technology, it is feasible to detect skin cancer at an early stage and treat it effectively. In this paper, we present a system for the identification of microscopic images that are based on a deep learning technique and an entity encoding scheme, both of which are implemented in Python. Note that the deep interpretation of a rescaled dermoscopic image is first retrieved by an extraordinarily deep residual human brain, which already has previously been trained on a large natural ImageNet dataset before being applied to the dermoscopic image. Local deep descriptors are then gathered by ordered less visual statistic characteristics, which are then used to construct a global picture representation based on a fisher vector encoding scheme. Finally, we used the fisher vector coded interpretations to arrange melanoma photos using a convolution neural network, which was trained on the data (CNN). This system can provide more discriminatory information despite its limited training examples because of its limited ability to distinguish between significant changes inside the same class of skin cancer and tiny changes between skin cancer and other types of skin cancer.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"87 s1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"120835010","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An initial checklist of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and their specific distribution from district Wardha, Maharashtra, India","authors":"Vaishali J. Badwaik","doi":"10.47587/sa.2022.3201","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2022.3201","url":null,"abstract":"Biodiversity of life forms is incredible in India. In the present study, the comprehensive list of ant species and their distribution in district wardha from 2019 to 2021 have been studied. The habitat selected to study the impressive diversity of ants is agricultural field, domestic habitats, tree plantations, and surrounding water bodies. This is the first checklist of ant recorded in eight tehsil places (Seloo, Wardha, Deoli, Arvi, Ashti, Karanja, Hinganghat, Samudrapur) of district Wardha. The total ant species recorded belong to six subfamilies i.e. Formicinae, Myrmicinae, Ponerinae, Dorylinae, Dolichoderinae, and Pseudomyrmicinae. A total of 57 species belonging to the 30 genera are listed in the district. The species diversity index is more in agricultural fields followed by domestic habitats. The generic richness recorded for Componotus and Crematogaster.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121051995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kurniawanti, D. D. Agusta, H. Dianhar, D. U. C. Rahayu, P. Sugita
{"title":"Phytochemical screening and preliminary evaluation of antioxidant activity of three Indonesian Araucaria leaves extracts","authors":"Kurniawanti, D. D. Agusta, H. Dianhar, D. U. C. Rahayu, P. Sugita","doi":"10.47587/sa.2021.2316","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2021.2316","url":null,"abstract":"Araucaria is the largest genus in Araucariaceae and is well known as an evergreen coniferous tree. Several species of Araucaria have been used as traditional medicinal plants. This study aims to determine the phytochemical constituents, and preliminary antioxidant activities of three Indonesian Araucaria, i.e. A. hunsteinii, A. columnaris, and A. cunninghamii leaves extracts. All the leaves of Indonesian Araucaria were macerated in acetone to give acetone extracts. A qualitative phytochemical screening method was used to determine the class of secondary metabolites in the three leaves extracts, including alkaloids, flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, saponins, and tannins. In addition, the preliminary antioxidant activity of the corresponding extract was determined by spraying DPPH (2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl) to the TLC plate, which will turn a yellow spot as a positive result. The yield of acetone extract of A. columnaris, and A. cunninghamii, A. hunsteinii were 0.85%, 1.64%, and 3.07%, respectively. Phytochemical analysis showed that all leaves acetone extracts contained flavonoids, steroids, terpenoids, phenolics, and tannins. Furthermore, the strongest to the weakest antioxidant activities were summarized as follows A. hunsteinii, A. columnaris, and A. cunninghamii, sequentially. These preliminary results reveal that all Indonesian Araucaria leaves extracts are potential for further study.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127237990","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investigating the ability of bacteria isolated from various artificial respiratory systems to resist antibiotics and biofilms formation","authors":"Khadija Ismail Mohammad, Alaa Hussein Taha","doi":"10.47587/sa.2022.3404","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.47587/sa.2022.3404","url":null,"abstract":"Respiratory infections associated with ventilators represent a significant risk to individuals in intensive care units, particularly children under 3 years of age. 100 sample were collected Between October 2021 and February 2022, from Mosul hospitals (Ibn Al-Atheer Teaching Hospital, Ibn Sina Teaching Hospital, Al-Salam Hospital, and Al-Khansa Teaching Hospital) at ages 1 day to 3 years. A swab was taken from the water chamber of the artificial breathing devices, and the catheter head was collected, where the mucous material was cultured in three different mediums (blood agar, MacConkey agar, and Chocolate agar). 80 bacterial isolates were collected. The highest percentage was determined to be connected to Gr- bacteria, with 65 isolates 81.25%, and 15 isolates 18.75% being Gr+ bacteria. Using the Kirby-Bauer disc diffusion method, it was discovered that all isolates had great resistance to the antagonist’s ampicillin and ceftriaxone, but high sensitivity to both Imipenem and Meropenem. The tube method was found to be more efficient than the Congo red agar method in the detection of biofilms. Klebsiella pneumoniae, Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, Burkholderia cepacia group, and Pseudomonas mendocina were biofilm-forming in both ways by up to 100%. The current investigation found that the tube approach produced 100% biofilm, but the Congo red agar method produced 41.25% biofilm.","PeriodicalId":273863,"journal":{"name":"Science Archives","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122035378","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}