Publications by authors named "M Agnew"
This study determined the impacts of dry-ageing on meat quality, oxidative stability, and release of free amino acids (FAAs) in striploins from dairy-crossbred yearlings and 2-year-old steers (n = 12 each group) over 21 days of in-bag dry-ageing. Dry-ageing increased weight losses, with higher % drying rates in yearling meat during dry-ageing, likely due to the smaller loin size and lower intramuscular fat content (P < 0.05).
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- Pathogen transmission pathways are essential for studying infectious diseases, especially in ocean environments where they are difficult to track.
- The study focuses on Seagrass Wasting Disease (SWD), which affects seagrass beds globally, and investigates how it spreads and its sensitivity to temperature through field and lab experiments.
- Results indicate that SWD spreads through waterborne transmission rather than direct contact with infected plants, helping improve management and restoration of coastal ecosystems amid changing ocean conditions.
Microalgal lipids contain a wide array of liposoluble bioactive compounds, but lipid extraction remains a critical limitation for their commercial use. An accelerated solvent extraction (ASE) was used to extract lipids from , (), and grown under either standard or nitrogen depletion conditions. Under standard growth conditions, ASE using methanol:chloroform (2:1), methyl -butyl ether (MTBE):methanol:water, and ethanol at 100 °C resulted in the highest recovery of total lipids (352 ± 30, 410 ± 32, and 127 ± 15 mg/g biomass from , , and , respectively).
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- - Researchers studied how living in disadvantaged neighborhoods over a lifetime affects health, using data from 4,177 adults in Wisconsin to assess neighborhood conditions.
- - They developed four methods to evaluate cumulative neighborhood disadvantage and found that issues like transportation limits, residential turnover, education gaps, and racial segregation are linked to poorer self-reported health.
- - The study reveals that considering long-term neighborhood exposure provides a clearer understanding of health risks than relying on a single point-in-time assessment, suggesting the need for a life course perspective in health research.