Organic and conventional lamb loin chops, labelled as British lamb, were bought from three major UK supermarket chains (designated A, B and C) in the Bristol area on 10 occasions over a six week period. Samples (n=360) were from unknown production systems but representative of what is available to UK consumers. The nutritional quality of muscle was assessed in terms of its fatty acid compositio...

the main purpose of this study was to investigate the effects of euphorbia hirta and acidifiers supplement on resistance of broiler chickens against salmonella enteritidis infection. a total of 120 day-old male broiler chicks were randomly assigned to 3 dietary treatments. 1) basal diet, 2) basal diet supplemented with 2 g/kg organic acid (oa) and 3) basal diet supplemented with 7.5 g/kg e. hir...

Let p(n) denote the ordinary partition function. Subbarao conjectured that in every arithmetic progression r (mod t) there are infinitely many integers N ≡ r (mod t) for which p(N) is even, and infinitely many integers M ≡ r (mod t) for which p(M) is odd. In the even case the conjecture was settled by Ken Ono. In this paper we prove the odd part of the conjecture which together with Ono’s resul...

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In a recent paper Folsom and Ono constructed a grid of Poincaré series of weights 3/2 and 1/2. They conjectured that the coefficients of the holomorphic parts of these series are rational integers. We prove that these coefficients are indeed rational numbers with bounded denominators.

Exposure for 4 hours to vanillic acid (4-hydroxy 3-methoxy benzoic acid) caused large delay phase shifts (5 to 6 hours) in the circadian rhythm of bioluminescence in Gonyaulax polyedra, when assayed at either 10 to 14 circadian time or 22 to 02 circadian time in constant light and temperature, provided that the pH of the medium was 7.1 or lower. Corresponding changes in the pH with acetic acid ...

The molecular processes leading to formation of nanoparticles of blue haze over forested areas are highly complex and not fully understood. We show that the interaction between biogenic organic acids and sulfuric acid enhances nucleation and initial growth of those nanoparticles. With one cis-pinonic acid and three to five sulfuric acid molecules in the critical nucleus, the hydrophobic organic...

Objective: To determine how the balance between mineral base, and carbonic and organic acids is altered to cause metabolic acidosis in preterm infants. Study Design: Mineral balance and arterial blood measurements of 3 groups of preterm infants given 5 different Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) regimens were analyzed. Mineral base was measured as the difference between mineral cations and anion...

Background Exploring different microbial sources for biotechnological production of organic acids is important. Dutch and Thai cow rumen samples were used as inocula to produce organic acid from starch waste in anaerobic reactors. Organic acid production profiles were determined and microbial communities were compared using 16S ribosomal ribonucleic acid gene amplicon pyrosequencing. Results ...