The objective of this study was to determine characteristics and associations among bulk milk quality indicators from a cohort of dairies that used modern milk harvest, storage, and shipment systems and participated in an intensive program of milk quality monitoring. Bulk milk somatic cell count (SCC), total bacteria count (TBC), coliform count (CC), and laboratory pasteurization count (LPC) we...

We present distributed randomized leader election protocols for multi-hop radio networks that elect a leader in almost the same time TBC required for broadcasting a message. For the setting without collision detection, our algorithm runs with high probability in O(D log n D + log n) · min{log logn, log n D } rounds on any n-node network with diameter D. Since TBC = Θ(D log n D + log n) is a low...

Abstract The goal of the present study was to verify quality refrigerated raw milk from dairy properties and also milk, pasteurized Ultra High Temperature (UHT) industries in Vale do Taquari Rio Grande Sul, Brazil. Physicochemical, microbiological composition analysis were carried out, as established by legislation, addition total thermotolerant coliforms psychrotrophic counts three types mesop...

At CT-RSA 2017, List and Nandi proposed two variable input length pseudorandom functions (VI-PRFs) called PMACx and PMAC2x, and a deterministic authenticated encryption scheme called SIVx. These schemes use a tweakable block cipher (TBC) as the underlying primitive, and are provably secure up to the query complexity of 2, where n denotes the block length of the TBC. In this paper, we falsify th...

The objective of this research was to determine the variation of milk stability evaluated with ethanol, boiling, and coagulation time tests (CTT) to identify milk components related with stability and verify the correlation between the three methods. Bulk raw milk was collected monthly at 50 dairy farms from January 2007 to October 2009 and physicochemical attributes, somatic cell (SCC), and to...

BACKGROUND The microRNA-200 (miR-200) family acts as a major suppressor of epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). Impaired miR-200 expression may lead to EMT initiation and eventually cancer dissemination. The presence of tumor budding cells (TBC) is associated with metastasis and poor prognosis, and molecular similarities to EMT indicate that these cells may reflect ongoing EMT. The aim of t...