George Mwaluko’s scientific contributions

... The promise and potential of the Ethiopian livestock value chain is to become a thriving industry that can produce packaged meat destined for Middle Eastern, European, and East African markets or fashion gloves and shoes that sell in volume on the high streets and boutiques of Europe [14]. ...

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Examining Ethiopia's live Animal and Meat Value Chain

... Quality assurance can be supported in several other ways, many but not all of which are tied to accreditation standards. The following is a non-exhaustive list of quality assurance methods, the details of which can be found either in other sections of this review or in the supporting texts cited: lean six sigma or total quality management approach to improve turnaround time and efficiency [11,116,117]; Daku,2019 [118]; the use of a LIMS or case management system [10,111,119]; blind proficiency testing [20,27,30,53,54,108,120]; improved education or certification of forensic scientists and technicians [15,20,[29][30][31]36,40,52,115,121]; other stakeholders [10,40,58]; improvements in organizational culture and stress reduction [19,23,116,122]; laboratory independence [17,18,52,120]; effective use of regulation [15,16,31,109]; improvements in evidence chain of custody and storage [10,119,123,124]; improvements in crime scene management and testing standards [10,15,125,126]; and reduction of biases and conflicts of interest [15][16][17]20,21,52,53,[106][107][108]120,127,128]. ...

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Interpol review of forensic management, 2019–2022

... It shows that a company is growing and improving over time. Evidence has proven that high employee longevity shows an organization's work environment is balanced, and employee longevity also means that workload is sustainable for employees over time 22 . Employee Longevity is a positive aspect of an organization and may be affected for many reasons. ...

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Is Overwork Culture a New Normal? Rethinking from Psychological Detachment Perspective.: Life Sciences

... Unsafe working conditions, non-compliance with H&S regulations, a lack of workplace H&S programmes, and practices that enhance prioritisation of construction workers' H&S, welfare, and well-being can adduce absenteeism associated with workplace accidents, injuries, and illnesses among construction workers (Adebiyi et al., 2020;Malomane et al., 2022). Workplace absenteeism has a negative impact on productivity, work schedules, workflow, task accomplishment, and profitability (Mashwama et al., 2018;Omari et al., 2019). ...

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H&S factors linked to absenteeism in small and medium-sized contractors

... The quality of meat products is a major issue that affects both the meat industry and consumers [22]. In Tanzania, the quality of meat is highly affected by both pre-slaughtering and post-slaughtering factors [26]. The majority of research on meat tenderness focuses on the use of various natural, chemical, mechanical, and chemical tenderizers; however, some of these chemical tenderizers have been found to have limitations when used in restaurants or at home, which means they only partially succeed in softening tough meat [36]. ...

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Development of Natural Liquid and Powdered Meat Tenderizer Based on Papaya Peel, Ginger and Garlic

... Although this system resulted in general categorization based on quality and tenderness differences, the value of the produced beef is compromised due to imprecision of the sorting methodology [2] [3]. Condition of the storage in beef trading is challenged by cold chain management during beef processing, transportation and retailing, situations that resulted in questionability of produced beef [4] [5] [6]. Elasticity of demand for beef is complex, multifaceted and evolving following the formation of new and important quality cues over time which is connected to attributes such as suitability, consistency in quality, convenience in preparation, price and price of beef relative to price of its substitutes [7]. ...

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Assessment of Beef Quality Determinants in the Retailing Premises

... In these cases, forensic personnel are required to employ methods such as DNA testing or bioanthropological skeletal analysis to obtain evidence from the remains. It has been found that DNA and other forensic biological methods take longer than other methods (Omari et al., 2018). Because larger numbers of vacancies and empty spaces are found in low-income areas, this issue could disproportionately affect those living in those areas, which tend to disproportionately be People of Color. ...

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Implications of Ancestry Estimation: An analysis of identification rates in unidentified persons cases

... The snapshot for the year 2015 alone shows that the core laboratory cadre comprise of 46.7% of the whole workforce, which is still low. The proportion of MSc at 31% of the laboratory cadre is encouraging as it indicates higher leadership and succession potential within the FSL [23]. Figure 5 shows the time series of percentage of support carders with different certificates from Y2000 to Y2015. ...

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Analysis of Employee’s Longevity and Academic Development in Forensic Science Laboratory

... Other organisations prefer to limit backlogs to cases that meet court dates. This discrepancy in defining backlogs highlights variations in defining and measuring DNA backlogs across different entities [7,[16][17][18][19][20][21][22]. ...

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Why Down-managing Backlog Forensic DNA Case Entries Matters