Incidence of green mold of citrus, caused by Penicillium digitatum, was reduced by 80% or more by the immersion of lemons or oranges for 1–4 min in warm (40.6–43.3°C) ‘liquid lime-sulfur’ (LLS) solution that contained 0.75% (wt vol) calcium polysulfide. The incidence of sour rot, caused by Geotrichum citri-aurantii, was reduced 35–70% by this treatment. LLS was similar in effectiveness to other...

Initiators of open innovation processes involving customers or employees often face vast amounts of idea proposals. These proposals vary greatly in terms of quality, which is why organizers often engage the users themselves in the evaluation process. Building on the concept of information overload, we evaluate the effects of three distinct rating scales on users’ activity and frustration measur...

Restaurateurs often place a lemon slice on the rim of a beverage glass, or afloat in the beverage, as a flavor-enhancer or a decorative garnish. The handling of the lemons before their placement in the beverage may not follow sanitary procedures. The study reported here investigated whether beverage lemon slices contain microbial contamination that could be consumed by a restaurant patron. Swab...

Economic losses caused by postharvest diseases represent one of the main problems of the citrus industry worldwide. The major diseases affecting citrus are the "green mold" and "blue mold", caused by Penicillium digitatum and P. italicum, respectively. To control them, synthetic fungicides are the most commonly used method. However, often the emergence of resistant strains occurs and their use ...

The field of AI is strewn with knowledge representation languages. The language designer typically has one particular application domain in mind: as subsequent types of applications are tried, what had originally been US&II j2urure.y become undesirable limitations, and the language is overhauled or scrapped. One remedy to this bleak cycle might be to construct a representational scheme whose do...

A ranking on a graph is an assignment of positive integers to its vertices such that any path between two vertices with the same label contains a vertex with a larger label. The rank number of a graph is the fewest number of labels that can be used in a ranking. The rank number of a graph is known for many families, including the ladder graph P2 × Pn. We consider how ”bending” a ladder affects ...

Article history: Received 23 July 2014 Available online 22 September 2014 Wehypothesized and tested amodelwherementor career support predicts college student career planning, job search intentions, and self-defeating job search behavior via student career selfefficacy. Using survey responses collected at two points in time from college students near graduation who were mentored by working busin...