Freshness is one of the main quality attributes for processing, marketing and consumption of fish. Fish is increasingly becoming the favored food of people in many countries as it is rich in proteins. However, the disadvantage associated with broader consumption of fish products is their comparatively short shelf-life. Therefore, effective methods for extending shelf-life and improving qual...

We use synchronous movies from the Dutch Open Telescope sampling the G band, Ca iiH, and Hα with five-wavelength profile sampling to study the response of the chromosphere to acoustic events in the underlying photosphere. We first compare the visibility of the chromosphere in Ca iiH and Hα, demonstrate that studying the chromosphere requires Hα data, and summarize recent developments in underst...

The formation of sdBs is still puzzling, as is the chemical composition of their atmospheres. While helium and other light elements are depleted relative to solar values, heavy elements are highly enriched. Diffusion processes in the hot, radiative atmosphere of these stars are the most likely explanation. Although several attempts were made, it was not yet possible to model all the observed fe...

  This study was aimed to investigate effects of aqueous citric acid (CA) and ascorbic acid (AA) on lipid oxidation in comparison with effect of vacuum packaging in order to find better treatment to delay improper changes in the Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus) fillets during frozen storage due to lipid oxidation. In this study traditional packaging, vacuum packaging, ascorbic acid solutio...

Stepping Piezo Actuators (SPA) are long stroke linear piezoelectric actuators able to perform long stroke (typ. >10mm) with an important resolution (typ. <1nm). Use of famous Amplified Piezo Actuator APA gives the motor interesting characteristics, such as useful deformation mode and speed improvement, compared to standard inertial motors. The paper proposes experimental results obtained on var...

The word "place" is curiously wide in its application, going beyond strict spatiality. A traditional town is a place, the right half of that field is a place, the vacuum cleaner has its place in the closet, the children's place is upstairs, the woman's place was in the home, the third line on the form is the place for this year's income, and as we grow up we try to find our place within the mes...

BACKGROUND Although legal, access to safe abortion remains limited in India. Given positive experiences of task-shifting from other developing countries, there is a need to explore the feasibility of expanding the manual vacuum aspiration (MVA) provider base to include nurses in India. STUDY DESIGN A prospective, two-sided equivalence study was undertaken in five facilities of a non-governmen...