Practical, effective methods that could be implemented in a food service establishment (restaurant or delicatessen) for the surface sanitization of cantaloupes were microbiologically evaluated. Cantaloupes (Cucumis melo L. var. reticulates) were immersed in an inoculum containing Salmonella enterica serovar Poona or Pantoea agglomerans at ca. 10(4) to 10(5) CFU/ml. An efficient method for the r...

In aquaculture management it is important to establish objective criteria to assess health and welfare of the fish. Here we show that European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax) confronted with husbandry-associated stress (tank cleaning, i.e. scrubbing, and water temperature variation) during early life stages show poorer survival and disease resistance as juveniles. We evaluated several parameter...

This paper analyzes the impact of environmental policy instruments on the choice of pollution control techniques. I ̄rst recast the existing theoretical model of pollution abatement technology choice. Previous studies have found that the cost savings to a ̄rm that adopts a technical innovation in pollution control are greater under a market-based instrument, such as an emissions tax or tradeabl...

Silver nano-particles have been used for antibacterial purpose and it is also believed to have removal of odorous compounds, oxidation capacity as a metal catalyst. In this study, silver nano-particles in nano sizes (5-30 nm) were prepared on the surface of NaHCO3, the supporting material, using a sputtering method that provided high silver content and minimized conglomerating problems observed...

Latent Sector Error (LSE) is a well-known problem in HDD-based storage systems. LSEs, which occur silently, may result in data loss during RAID recovery from disk failure. LSEs in HDDs are caused by various reasons such as write errors or media imperfections [1], which result in bit/symbol errors that cannot be corrected with ECC. Disk scrubbing is used to detect LSEs by scrubbing the disk in t...