Background: Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris is a key spoilage causing bacterium commonly found in fruit juices and purees. Commercial real-time PCR based assays to detect this organism are available, but reportedly require 48 hours of enrichment for detection. The underlying hypothesis of this study was that fruit juice and puree characteristics influence the enrichment requirements of this or...

Children (N = 54) ranging in age from one year four months to five years were offered over 30 items to eat. The items included normal adult foods and exemplars of different adult rejection categories: disgust (e.g. grasshopper, hair), danger (liquid dish soap), inappropriate (e.g. paper, leaf) and unacceptable combinations (e.g. ketchup and cookie). We report a high to moderate level of accepta...

Since the recent introduction of new generic top-level domains (TLDs), a variety of new Internet domain names have become available for registration. These include new domain endings such as <.berlin>, <.club> or <.global>, which anyone can purchase. At the same time, an entire class of new TLD applications has arguably failed. Several well-known corporations applied for „closed generic TLDs‟. ...

Two carbonate stones (a limestone and a marble), commonly used for flooring, wall cladding countertops, were exposed to different staining agents. After each cycle (staining cleaning with non-ionic detergent solution), the surface degradation was assessed on scale ranging from unchanged severe change (based qualitative characterization presented standard UNE-EN 16301:2014), stereomicroscopy col...

The quality performance of surface coatings are evaluated with emphasis on Microwave (Mw) irradiation, effects both wood and oil modified alkyd-based varnish, separately. pencil film hardness value 2B (5 in metric) found for neat varnish coated linden spruce control samples. It appears Mw exposure woods were effective further increasing which about 4 5 unit higher than controls. is also noticea...

BACKGROUND Regular consumption of fruits and vegetables (e.g., tomatoes) has been shown to be beneficial in terms of reducing the incidence of cardiovascular diseases. The industrial processing of tomatoes into tomato-based products includes several thermal treatments. Very little is known on the effect of tomato industrial processing on antiaggregatory activity and phenolic profile. METHODS ...

Previous research has demonstrated that higher-order cognitive processes associated with the allocation of selective attention are engaged when highly familiar self-relevant items are encountered, such as one's name, face, personal possessions and the like. The goal of our study was to determine whether these effects on attentional processing are triggered on-line at the moment self-relevance i...

A polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was developed to differentiate the thickening agents locust bean gum (LBG) and the cheaper guar gum in finished food products. Universal primers for amplification of the intergenic spacer region between trnL 3' (UAA) exon and trnF (GAA) gene in the chloroplast (cp) genome and subsequent restriction analysis were applied to differentiate guar gum and LBG. The pr...