Ultimate pH (pHu) of pork is a major quality determinant. Higher pHu is associated with darker color (Kauffman et al., 1993). A lower pHu is associated with higher drip loss (Kauffman et al., 1993). Pale, soft, exudative (PSE) and red, soft, exudative (RSE) pork is undesirable because it has a low water-holding capacity. At pHu above 5.7, PSE and RSE pork quality problems do not occur (Fernande...

In contemporary societies there is a growing need to coordinate and legitimize different perspectives. Instead of a dialogical search for consensus polarizing communication still prevails. The legitimacy of formal political institutions and conventional forms of political participation is in decline; increasingly publicly expressed people’s need for a greater influence on social developments re...

The steroid hormone vitamin D is required for normal calcium and phosphorus metabolism and is thus an important contributor to musculoskeletal health. Recent data have linked low vitamin D levels to a wide range of diseases, including cancer, cardiovascular disease, autoimmune disease and infection. Adequate levels of vitamin D are maintained through its cutaneous photosynthesis and oral ingest...

Over the years, the emergence of innovative and revolutionary integration technologies (e.g. Enterprise Application Integration [EAI], Service Oriented Architecture [SOA] and more recently – Cloud Computing) has highly influenced the top management in their decision-making process – decisions that are imperative to transform Local Government Authorities (LGAs). LGAs that plan to adopt such inte...

Following the launch of a publicly funded influenza immunization program for all residents of Ontario over the age of 6 months, we evaluated 203 parents of children who presented to our emergency department between January and March of the following year (2001). Overall, 54 (27%) of the children had been vaccinated. Parents of non-immunized children were more likely to believe that immunization...

According to recent findings that beside cancers traditionally considered as hormone-dependent, several other tumor types show different behavior in the two sexes, indicating the possible role of endocrine factors in the course of these diseases. The possibility that endocrine factors may influence the clinical course of human malignant melanoma is suggested by the higher survival rate in preme...

Plentiful data from both animal and human studies support the importance of genetic influences in substance abuse and dependence (Bierut et al., 1998; Tsuang et al., 1998; Kendler et al., 2003). This review summarizes the evidence supporting such genetic influences, places them into perspective regarding animal and human studies, discusses the importance of both genes and environment, and highl...

Conversion of ethanolamine to choline (l), with methionine serving as the methyl donor (2), has been established in the intact animal. Stetten (1) observed that the labeled nitrogen of ethanolamine-N15 was retained in the choline molecule, and we determined that the carbon chain of ethanolamine is the precursor in vivo of the choline carbon chain (3). Conversion of ethanolamine to choline by in...

Gene variants encoding several of the alcohol-metabolizing enzymes, alcohol dehydrogenase (ADH) and aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH), are among the largest genetic associations with risk for alcohol dependence. Certain genetic variants (i.e., alleles)—particularly the ADH1B*2, ADH1B*3, ADH1C*1, and ALDH2*2 alleles—have been associated with lower rates of alcohol dependence. These alleles may lead ...

This paper aimed to analyzed the factors influencing knowledge sharing. An integrative literature review was employed as a tool in analyzing step. Total twenty academic papers which concerned with knowledge sharing were chosen. Thirty five factors were mentioned in those literatures. As a result, five factors which were most mentioned in earlier literatures were chosen as a key success factors ...