background: l-glutamic acid is one of the major amino acids that is present in a wide variety of foods. it is mainly used as a food additive and flavor enhancer in the form of sodium salt. corynebacterium glutamicum (c. glutamicum) is one of the major organisms widely used for glutamic acid production. methods: the study was dealing with immobilization of c. glutamicum and mixed culture of c. g...

microcerotermes diversus (silvestri) is a major pest of buildings and a wide variety of crops and trees in khouzestan province, because of consuming on materials containing cellulose. one new environmentally safe tactic for the control of subterranean termites is baiting world-wide. in laboratory bioassays, toxicity of imidacloprid bait at concentrations of 25, 50 and 100 ppm, was evaluated und...

This document or any other document produced within the SUSTELNET project does not represent the opinion of the European Commission. Neither the European Commission, nor any person acting on behalf of the Commission, is responsible for the use that might be made of the information arising from the SUSTELNET project. Abstract This report identifies the main factors at play with regard to the int...

The complexity of planning tasks have increased over the past decade. There is relatively poor understanding what the implications are of increased task complexity in planning and scheduling operations. Previous work in the behavorial sciences have investigated the concept of cognitive load, addressing both task complecity and task workload or stress, and have concluded that decision makers ten...

Consumers frequently consume items to the point where they no longer enjoy them. In a pilot study and two experiments spanning three distinct classes of stimuli, we find that people can recover from this satiation by simply recalling the variety of alternative items they have consumed in the past. And yet, people seem to exhibit “variety amnesia” in that they do not spontaneously recall this pa...

This paper presents a new approach of building a language identification system using a specialized Phone Recognition system followed by Language Modeling (PRLM) to differentiate Portuguese varieties spoken in African Countries from European Portuguese. The system is designed to focus on exploiting the phonotactic information of a single discriminatively trained tokenizer for the specific pair ...