Effects of Method and Time of Castration on Growth and Carcass Characteristics of Omani Sheep

Mahgoub, O.,Horton, G.M.J.,Olvey, F.H. Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 1998 Animal Bioscience Vol.11 No.2

Thirty two Omani sheep with eight animals each of; intact males (INT), males castrated with rubber rings immediately after birth (RR), males castrated with a burdizzo at 8 weeks of age (BC) and intact females (IF) were fed ad libitum a concentrate diet (CP 16%) plus chopped Rhodesgrass hay (8% CP) from weaning until slaughter at 28 kg. INT lambs grew faster from 9 to 20 weeks of age (p < 0.05) thus they were significantly heavier at 20 weeks of age than BC and IF, but not RR lambs. INT consumed more total feed than other sex groups over the period from 9 to 20 weeks of age. There were no significant differences between lambs of all experimental groups in feed per gain ratio. INT lambs had lower (p < 0.01) dressing percentage (DP) than RR, BC and IF. As a percentage in the empty body weight (EBW), INT had higher proportions of head, feet, empty gut (p < 0.001), liver (p < 0.05) and genitals (p < 0.05) but lower proportions of lungs and trachea (p < 0.05) than BC and IF lambs. INT males had a significantly higher (p < 0.05) proportion of bone than RR and IF lambs but lower (p < 0.05) proportion of fat than RR and IF. As a percentage in EBW, IF had the highest protortion (p < 0.001) of total body fat (TBF) followed by BC and RR whereas INT males had the lowest proportion. There was a general trend of IF having the highest proportion of individual and total non-carcass fat (TNCF) and total carcass fat (TCF) followed by BC and RR lambs whereas INT lambs had the lowest protortions of individual carcass and non-carcass fat depots. There were only few sex or castration effects on carcass tissue distribution. IF had higher proportions of intermuscular fat in the chuck, plate, leg and flank than INT and BC. The current study demonstrated that castration of intensively-raised male Omani native sheep especially at weaning using a burdizzo retarded growth rate and reduced carcass quality by increasing fat content.

GROWTH AND COMPOSITION OF THE OMANI DHOFARI CATTLE 2. DISTRIBUTION OF CARCASS TISSUES

Mahgoub, O.,Olvey, F.H.,Jeffrey, D.C. Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 1995 Animal Bioscience Vol.8 No.6

Distribution of wholesale carcass cuts and tissues was studied in Omani Dhofari bulls and steers raised under intensive management and slaughtered over a range of 110 to 210 kg body weight. The fore quarter of Dhofari cattle carcasses was heavier than the hind quarter with the chuck being the heaviest cut in the half carcass followed by the round whereas the flank was the lightest cut. Proportions of the fore quarter and its cuts increased whereas that of the hind quarter and its cuts decreased with increasing carcass weight. The fore quarter contained higher proportions of carcass tissues especially intermuscular fat than the hind quarter. The chuck and round contained the highest proportions of lean and bone and the flank the least. There was a general trend of increasing proportions of fat and decreasing proportions of lean and bone in carcass cuts and fore and hind quarters with increasing slaughter weight and age. As % total body fat (TBF), total carcass fat (TCF) increased whereas total non-carcass fat (TNCF) decreased. The largest proportion of TBF was deposited in the intermuscular site. Among the TNCF depots, the kidney and omental contributed the highest proportions whereas the pelvic and channel were the lowest. Proportions of M. rhomboideus and M. splenius increased in the half carcass whereas that of M. semitendinosus decreased as the cattle increased in size. The axial skeleton contributed 47.4-51.1, the fore limb 21.6-22.6 and the hind limb 23.9-26.2% of the total carcass bone. Proportions of axial skeleton increased whereas that of fore and hind limbs decreased with increasing slaughter weight and age. There were no major effects of castration on the distribution of weight of carcass cuts or carcass tissues. Steers had higher total body fat at 160 kg body weight and higher proportions of mesenteric, scrotal, pelvic, kidney and total non-carcass fat at 210 kg weight than bulls. As % of total body fat, steers fad significantly higher kidney and total non-carcass fat. There was little effects of castration on proportions of dimensions of individual muscles or bones.

Biotechnological application of plant growth-promoting endophytic bacteria isolated from halophytic plants to ameliorate salinity tolerance of Vicia faba L.

Mahgoub Hany A. M.,Fouda Amr,Eid Ahmed M.,Ewais Emad El-Din,Hassan Saad El-Din 한국식물생명공학회 2021 Plant biotechnology reports Vol.15 No.6

Salinity is a major problem affecting crop production all over the world. A wide range of adaptation strategies are required to overcome this problem. Endophytic bacteria can build a symbiotic association with their host to improve host plant salt tolerance. In this study, eighteen bacterial endophyte strains were isolated from two native halophytic plants Arthrocnemum macrostachyum and Spergularia marina, and identified as Bacillus, Brevibacillus, Agrobacterium, and Paenibacillus. These endophytic strains exhibit plant growth-promoting activities including phosphate solubilizing, ammonia production, bio- control of phytopathogen, extracellular enzymatic activities, and indole-3-acetic acid production under normal and salinity stress. A pot experiment was conducted under field conditions to alleviate the harmful effects of soil salinity on bean (Vicia faba L.) by inoculating their seeds with the most potent bacterial isolates Bacillus subtilis (AR5) and Bacillus thuringiensis (BR1). Salinity treatments induced a significant decrease in both growth parameters and metabolic activities, while the activ- ity of antioxidant enzymes and proline content was significantly increased. However, salinity stress induced higher contents of Na+ and decreased contents of N+, P3+, K+, Ca2+, Mg2+, and K+:Na+, it was found that treatment with B. subtilis (AR5) and B. thuringiensis (BR1) individually or in a combination mitigated the effect of salt stress and improved the plant height, shoot dry weights, proline contents, enzymes activities as well enhanced the accumulation of mineral nutrients in shoot plants. Our results concluded that treatment with co-inoculation of B. subtilis (AR5) and B. thuringiensis (BR1) exerted the greatest effect in alleviating the harmful effect of soil salinity stress and can be used as a suitable bio-approach to reclaim salinity-stressed soils.

GROWTH AND COMPOSITION OF THE OMANI DHOFARI CATTLE 1. BODY WEIGHT GROWTH AND CARCASS COMPOSITION

Mahgoub, O.,Olvey, F.H.,Jeffrey, D.C. Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 1995 Animal Bioscience Vol.8 No.6

A study was conducted which demonstrated that Dhofari cattle responded well to intensive management systems in terms of growth rates and carcass yields. Twenty-four Omani Dhofari bulls and steers (12 of each) were reared from birth until slaughter at 110, 160 and 210 kg body weight (for of each sex at each slaughter weight). Calves were fed ad libitum a diet of concentrate (16.5% CP) and Rhodesgrass hay (8.8% CP). Bulls and steers reached the predetermined slaughter weights of 110, 160 and 210 kg at 154 and 164; 219 and 233; 273 and 310 days of age, respectively. Respective mean pre and post-weaning daily body weight gains for bulls and steers were 581 and 530; 796 and 706 g averaging 645 and 596 g over 36 weeks. At 210 kg, the heaviest weight of the study, dressing-out percentage (DO) was 54.5 and 56.9 yielding carcasses of 115.9 and 118.5 kg which contained 60.4 and 61.5% muscle; 11.6 and 11.4% bone and 24.5 and 22.9% fat for bulls and steers, respectively. Proportion of bone in the carcass decreased, that of fat increased, whereas that of muscle remained unchanged between slaughter weights of 110 to 210 kg. That resulted in increased muscle : bone and decreased muscle : fat ratios. At 160 kg body weight, bulls had less fat and more muscle and bone than steers but there were no sex differences in carcass composition at 210 kg slaughter weight.

Studies on Synthesis and Heterocyclisation Reactions of Michael Products and Formation of New 1, 4-Thiazine Quinoxaline Derivatives

Mahgoub, S.A. The Pharmaceutical Society of Korea 1990 Archives of Pharmacal Research Vol.13 No.4

Synthesis of $\alpha$-piperidino and $\alpha$-morphelino styryl quinoxalinone 2f, 2g respectively by facile one step method is reported. The Michael adducts (3a-d) obtained by the interaction of 2-styryl-2 (1H) quinoxalinone (2) and ethylacetoacetate have been treated with resorcino and hydroxylamine separately. With resorcinol the chromones (4) are obtained whereas with ydroxylamine isoxazoles (6) are the products. Michael addition of acetylacetone to 2 leads to 3-[1'-aryl-2'-(2'-hydroxy-3'-quinoxalinyl)ethyl]-2, 4-pentanediones (5) which undergo cyclisation with hydroxylamine to give isoxazoles (7). Addition of thiopenol and thioglycolic acid to 2 gives 3-$\alpha$[$\beta$-(phenyl)-$\beta$-(plenylthio)]ethyl-2(1H)-quinoxalinone (8) and 3-$\alpha$-[$\beta$-phenyl)-$\beta$-(hydroxycarbonylmethylithio)]-ethyl-2(1H)-qui noxalinone (9) respectively. 2-Bromomethyl-2(1H)-quinoxalinone (1b) reacts with thioglycolic acid to gives S-[2 (1H)-oxoquionoxaline-3-yl-methyl] mercaptoacetic acid (10) which on cyclisation with acetic anhydride/pyridine affords 1, 2, 5, 6-tetrahydro [1, 4]thiazino[4, 3-a] quinoxaline-1, 6-dione (11).

An Enhanced Bernsen Algorithm Approaches for Vehicle Logo Detection

Ahmed Mahgoub Ahmed Talab,ZhangcanHuang,Wang Junfei 보안공학연구지원센터(IJSIP) 2014 International Journal of Signal Processing, Image Vol.7 No.4

Gluteal Region Reshaping of Massive Weight Loss Patients—A Decision-Making Strategy

Mohamed Ali Mahgoub,Ahmed Mahmoud Zeina,Ahmed Mohamed Bahaa El-Din,Ahmed Hassan El-Sabbagh,Franco Bassetto,Vincenzo Vindigni 대한성형외과학회 2022 Archives of Plastic Surgery Vol.49 No.3

Background Massive weight loss (MWL) is a very common presentation that you may face as a plastic surgeon. Each patient has his own individual criteria, so, you should work according to a well-organized plan, especially when such cases have concerns about their gluteal area contour that were neglected before by many surgeons. A decision-making strategy was used to give a personalized treatment for targeting gluteal region reshaping of MWL patients. Methods This study considered all patients with MWL subjected to buttock reshaping. There was no randomization in treatment; there was a case-by-case assessment. We analyzed the features of the buttocks, the type of surgery performed, the outcomes, and the complications. Results Fifty two patients were included (41 females and 11 males), ages ranged between 21 and 66 years. Demographic data, preoperative body mass index (BMI), duration of surgery, type of surgery, and postoperative complications were collected. Statistically significant improvements were observed in gluteal ptosis and patient satisfaction grades. Conclusion Aesthetic improvement of the buttocks involves either augmentation or contouring that may be obtained by liposculpture, surgical lifting, or combination. Patients with MWL have high expectations and are often treated with multiple procedures. Thus, an easy strategic approach personalized on each patient to treat multiple adjacent areas in one operation is necessary. Adipose tissue distribution, gluteal skin status, and BMI were the main factors that can forcefully affect our plan to guarantee reduction of unpleasant results and complications and improve patient satisfaction.

Effect of Transportation at High Ambient Temperatures on Physiological Responses, Carcass and Meat Quality Characteristics in Two Age Groups of Omani Sheep

Kadim, I.T.,Mahgoub, O.,AlKindi, A.Y.,Al-Marzooqi, W.,Al-Saqri, N.M.,Almaney, M.,Mahmoud, I.Y. Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 2007 Animal Bioscience Vol.20 No.3

The aim of this study was to determine the effects of short road transportation in an open truck during hot season on live weight shrink, physiological responses, and carcass and meat quality of Omani sheep at 6 and 12 months of age. Thirty-six male sheep, 18 of each age group, were used. Age groups were assigned randomly to transported and not-transported groups. The transported group was transported to the slaughterhouse the day of slaughter in an open truck covering a distance of approximately 100 km. The average temperature during transportation was $37^{\circ}C$. The not-transported group was kept in a lairage of a commercial slaughterhouse with ad libitum feed and water for 48 h prior to slaughter. Blood samples were collected from sheep before loading and prior to slaughter via jugular venipuncture to assess their physiological response to transport in relation to hormonal levels. Animals were weighed just before loading onto a truck and after transport to assess shrinkage. Muscle ultimate pH, expressed juice, cooking loss percentage, WB-shear force value, sarcomere length and colour L*, a*, b* were measured on samples from longissimus dorsi, biceps femoris and semitendinosus muscles collected at 24 h postmortem at $1-3^{\circ}C$. Live weight shrinkage losses were 1.09 and 1.52 kg for 6 and 12 month transported sheep, respectively. The transported sheep had significantly (p<0.05) higher cortisol, adrenaline, noradrenaline, and dopamine concentration levels prior to slaughter at both ages than the not-transported sheep. Transportation significantly influenced meat quality characteristics of three muscles. Muscle ultimate pH and shear force values were significantly higher, while CIE L*, a*, b*, expressed juice and cooking loss were lower in transported than not-transported sheep. Age had a significant effect on meat quality characteristics of Omani sheep. These results indicated that short-term pre-slaughter transport at high ambient temperatures can cause noticeable changes in physiological and muscle metabolism responses in sheep.

Simulation Study of a New Approach for Field Weakening Control of PMSM

Elsayed, Mohamed Taha,Mahgoub, Osama Ahmed,Zaid, Sherif Ahmed The Korean Institute of Power Electronics 2012 JOURNAL OF POWER ELECTRONICS Vol.12 No.1

In this paper, the different techniques for the field weakening, also known as constant power speed range (CPSR) operation, for permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) will be introduced and analysed. Field weakening of PMSM, can be done using either vector control (VC) or conventional phase in advance (CPA). Implementation of these techniques depending on some features and constrains. Most of these features and constrains came from the motor parameters. One of these constrains is the motor inductance which determining whether the motor can be driven in the CPSR or not. A new approach for the field weakening will be discussed and to be verified to overcome this constrain. The new approach will be verified through both techniques VC and CPA.

Prediction of Crude Protein, Extractable Fat, Calcium and Phosphorus Contents of Broiler Chicken Carcasses Using Near-infrared Reflectance Spectroscopy

I. T. Kadim,O. Mahgoub,W. Al-Marzooqi,K. Annamalai 아세아·태평양축산학회 2005 Animal Bioscience Vol.18 No.7

Near-infrared reflectance spectroscopic (NIRS) calibrations were developed for accurate and fast prediction of whole broiler chicken carcass composition. The Feed and Forage Foss systems Model 5000 Reflectance Transport Model 5000 with nearinfrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS)-WinISI II windows software was used for this purpose. One equation was developed for the prediction of each carcass component. One hundred and fifty freeze dried broiler whole carcass samples were ground in a Cyclotech 1,093 sample mill and analyzed for dry matter, protein, fat, calcium and phosphate. Samples were divided into two sets: a calibration set from which equations were derived and a prediction set used to validate these equations. The chemical analysis values (mean짹SD) were calculated based on dry matter basis as follows: dry matter: 33.41짹2.78 (range: 26.41-43.47), protein: 54.04짹6.63 (range: 36.20-76.09), fat 35.44짹8.34 (range: 7.50-55.03), calcium 2.55짹0.65 (range: 0.99-4.41), phosphorus 1.38짹0.26 (range: 0.60-2.28). One hundred and three samples were used to calibrate the equations and prediction values. The software used was modified to obtain partial least square regression statistics, as it is the most suitable for natural products analysis. The coefficients of determination (R2) and the standard errors of prediction were 0.82 and 1.83 for the dry matter, 0.96 and 1.98 for protein, 0.99 and 1.07 for fat, 0.90 and 0.30 for calcium and 0.91 and 0.11 for phosphorus, respectively. The present study indicated that NIRS can be calibrated to predict the whole broiler carcass chemical composition, including minerals in a rapid, accurate, and cost effective manner. It neither requires skilled operators nor generates hazardous waste. These findings may have practical importance to improve instrumental procedures for quick evaluation of broiler carcass composition.