Technology to Improve the Quality of Mold-Ripened Cheeses

Surface microflora of four smear-ripened cheeses.

The microbial composition of smear-ripened cheeses is not very clear. A total of 194 bacterial isolates and 187 yeast isolates from the surfaces of four Irish farmhouse smear-ripened cheeses were identified at the midpoint of ripening using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), repetitive sequence-based PCR, and 16S rRNA gene sequencing for identifying and typing the bacteria and Fourier tra...

First Identification of Two Potent Thiol Compounds in Ripened Cheeses

Different methods of sample preparation followed by extractions with phydroxymercuribenzoate (pHMB) were used to investigate the occurrence of thiol compounds in ripened cheeses. The analysis of cheese extracts by GC coupled with PFPD, MS and olfactometry detections enabled the identification of ethyl 2mercaptopropionate (ET2MP) and ethyl 3-mercaptopropionate (ET3MP) in Munster and Camembert ch...

Using Technology to Improve the Quality of City Life

Using Information Technology To Improve the Quality of Health Care

he quality of health care is ultimately judged by the impact of specific health services on the patient’s health status.1 Improving quality involves identifying and using health services that, when properly executed, produce the greatest improvement in health status. The most direct contribution that information technology can make to improving the quality of health care is to provide the clini...

Using Technology to Improve the Quality of Classroom Instruction

This short paper is a case study describing the introduction of a computer-mediated dialogue process in support of classroom instruction in two graduate courses in the Management Department at the University of Canterbury. The R9 dialogue process was introduced using the WebCT platform. Course quality, both as perceived by the instructor and as indicated by student course and teaching evaluatio...