Among Vaccinium species, blueberries (Vaccinium myrtillus L.) and lingonberries (Vaccinium vitis-idaea) are popular in the human diet. In this study, total phenolic, total flavonoid and total monomeric anthocyanin contents in the ethanol-water extracts of blueberry and lingonberry fruits grown wild in the forests in the central region of Poland were assayed. Antioxidant activities of the extrac...

Grapes are important sources of phenolic compounds, which have multiple beneficial effects on human health. Scientific advances in the field genetics allowed production seedless table grape varieties, highly demanded by consumers because their nutritional value and easy consumption. In this study, total content (TPC), radical scavenging activity (RSA) anthocyanin (TAC), were determined 65 varie...

The haskap has been successfully cultivated in many geographical zones Canada. We investigated whether the latitude any impact on anthocyanin accumulation and total antioxidant capacity berry. measured quality attributes were compared with that of blueberry. Haskap 'Aurora' berries collected from Yukon, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Nova Scotia Canada, blueberries Scotia. Cyanidin-3-O-glucosi...

Chlordecone (CLD) is an organochlorine pesticide widely used from the 1970s to 1990s in French West Indies that induced long-term pollution of ecosystem. Due involuntary soil ingestion, some species bred open-air areas can be contaminated. As CLD distributed various tissues depending on breeding species, this study focuses distribution bovines. For purpose, three tissues, i.e. fat, muscle, and ...

To clarify the roles of prolactin (PRL) and GH in the control of the immune system, the effects of environmental salinity, hypophysectomy, and PRL and GH administration on several immune functions were examined in tilapia (Oreochromis mossambicus). Transfer from fresh water (FW) to seawater (SW) did not alter plasma levels of immunoglobulin M (IgM) and lysozyme. The superoxide anion (O(2)(-)) p...

When channel catfish (lchtalurus punctatus) in fresh water (FW) were hypophysectomized, plasma osmolality decreased significantly after 24 hrs, and the maximum reduction was seen after 2 days. When they were transferred from FW to dilute seawater (20-40% SW), plasma osmolality of the sham-operated fish was consistently higher than the osmolality of the environmental water, whereas the osmolalit...

Microgreens are receiving increasing attention due to their high content of bioactive components and importance human health. These emerging food products can be obtained from the seeds different plant species, including aromatic herbs. Aromatic microgreens gaining popularity as new functional products. In this study, we investigated effects light-emitting diode (LED) lamp spectra on growth, pi...

A nondestructive optical method for determining the total solids content (TSC) and soluble solids content (SSC) of fresh whole prune (Prunus domestica L. ‘French’) was investigated. The method, based upon near infrared spectrophotometric techniques, could predict the TSC (r /0. 98, SEP /0.80% FW) and SSC (r /0. 96, SEP / 1.02%) of prunes. A low cost ($250

Milkfish (Chanos chanos), an important marine aquaculture species in southern Taiwan, show considerable euryhalinity but have low tolerance to sudden drops in water temperatures in winter. Here, we used high throughput next-generation sequencing (NGS) to identify molecular and biological processes involved in the responses to environmental changes. Preliminary tests revealed that seawater (SW)-...

In this paper, a novel feature weight (FW) algorithm for robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) is proposed. In this algorithm every feature will be weighted according to their credible probability, especially, the weight factors are formulated and obtained from the gain coefficients generated as by-products of speech enhancement based on minimum mean square error (MMSE) estimation. Moreover...