Effects of providing lipoic acid or beet pulp in finishing diets to enhance meat quality in ractopamine supplemented pigs
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis examines providing lipoic acid or beet pulp in finishing diets to enhance meat quality in two breeds of pigs supplemented with the growth promotant, ractopamine. The antioxidant, lipoic acid was fed at 2 g d-1 while 30% beet pulp was included in the diet to increase fermentable fibre content. Both trials assessed breed, gender, and dietary treatment effects and interactions on growth, carcass, and meat quality traits. Ractopamine improved growth and carcass traits, while decreasing pork tenderness. Lipoic acid did not affect growth performance or carcass traits, and failed to decrease post mortem pH decline in muscle. Beet pulp did not impact growth performance but appeared to decrease hot carcass weight and lean content. Beet pulp had no impact on longissimus (loin) quality, but may have a tenderizing effect on semimembranosus muscle. Providing lipoic acid or beet pulp did not prevent negative effects of ractopamine on loin tenderness.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".