Use of soft clay soils in construction activities has faced many problems. Some improvement, stabilization, and reinforcement methods is required to use these soils in body of roads, sub-foundations and embankments. In this research, the effect of chitin nanofiber and rice husk ash as additives on the behavioral properties and bearing resistance of soft clay soils by considering the processing ...

Maize is consumed world-wide as staple food, livestock feed, and industrial raw material. However, it susceptible to fungal attack at risk of aflatoxin contamination under certain conditions. Such a serious threat human animal health. Ensuring that the maize used by food industry meets standards for levels requires significant investment across supply chain. Good Agricultural Practices (GAP) fo...

In phytoremediation processes implemented in highly contaminated areas, there is a high risk of contaminant toxicity during the germination freshly sown plants. such conditions, it recommended to support by using neutralizing additives. The present study aimed at assessing effect addition mineral neutralizers (MNs), i.e., limestone, clay, and zeolite, soil with copper (0, 200, 400, 600 mg kg−1)...

background: lipophosphoglycan 3 (lpg3) is required for the lpg assembly, a well known virulent molecule. in this study, the lpg3 gene of the lizard and mammalian leishmania species were cloned and sequenced. a three-dimensional structure (3d) for the target sequence was also predicted by comparative (homology) modeling. materials and methods: an optimization pcr amplification was performed on g...

three-hundred and twenty 7-day-old ross 308-strain broiler chickens were fed diets containing 0 or 125 ppb aflatoxin b 1 (afb1) from 7 to 28 days of age. sodium bentonite (0.5%), yeast (saccharomyces cervisiae) 0.2%, hydrated sodium calcium aluminosilicate (hscas) (0.5%), ammonia (0.5%), formycine (0.1%), and toxiban (0.1%) were added to the basal diet, as fed basis to determine the effects of ...

OBJECTIVE To examine the hypothesis that there is sufficient agreement between percentage of households purchasing selected foods using household budget surveys and percentage of individuals consuming these foods as determined in individual-based surveys to allow the former to act as a surrogate for the latter when estimating food chemical intakes using household budget data. DESIGN Database ...

The April 2013 News article “Secret Ingredients: Who Knows What’s in Your Food?” [Environ Health Perspect 121:A126–A133 (2013] included a simplified version of Figure 1B from Neltner et al. [Navigating the U.S. food additive regulatory program. Compr Rev Food Sci Food Saf 10(6):342–368 (2011)]. In simplifying the figure, EHP introduced errors. We furthermore later determined that Figure 2 from ...

Salt contamination of soils due to climate change faces a severe environmental issue that affects crop production today. However, the response mechanism in plants salt stress is not fully understood. The present study investigated molecular and biochemical changes under rice seedlings three cultivars, i.e., AGPPS114 (salt-tolerant), OM6967 (moderately tolerance), VD20 (salt-sensitive). Increasi...

The non-rubber components present in natural rubber latex can contribute to the dark color of dried films and may cause allergic reactions. This project aimed develop light-color with minimal protein contamination. Various additives were incorporated, a leaching procedure was implemented address this issue. evaluation focused on content, changes, swelling properties thin films. Texapon N70 prov...

ZSM-5-containing catalytic additives are widely used in oil refineries to boost light olefin production and improve gasoline octanes in the Fluid Catalytic Cracking (FCC) process. Under the hydrothermal conditions present in the FCC regenerator (typically >700 °C and >8% steam), FCC catalysts and additives are subject to deactivation. Zeolites (e.g., Rare Earth USY in the base catalyst and ZSM-...