This study documents an unusual case of developmental synaesthesia, in which speech sounds induce an involuntary sensation of taste that is subjectively located in the mouth. JIW shows a highly structured, non-random relationship between particular combinations of phonemes (rather than graphemes) and the resultant taste, and this is influenced by a number of fine-grained phonemic properties (e....

(Sanf ord, 1967; Currie and Bagshawe, 1969; Lundgren and Simmons, 1971; Simmons et al., 1971a). Tumor cells exposed to VCN in vitro generally fail to grow in normal immunocompetent recipients (Sanford, 1967; Currie and Bagshawe, 1969; Simmons et al., 1971a). These tumor recipients, however, were rendered immune to a further challenge with the same tumor, the response being immunospecific (Simmo...

OBJECTIVES To conduct a needs assessment of all aspects of food provision in a residential home and to evaluate a subsequent nutrition intervention. DESIGN An intervention study using a before and after design. A participatory approach was adopted and quantitative and qualitative methods used throughout. The intervention involved a revised menu, kitchen equipment, and establishing wholesale s...

The principal phyto-oestrogens (PO) in food are isoflavones, lignans, coumestans and prenylated flavonoids, with isoflavones and lignans being the most commonly found in UK diets. Until recently obtaining accurate data on the PO content of foods was hampered by lack of suitable analytical methods and validation techniques. Furthermore, although PO data exist for some foods, these foods may not ...

A preliminary paper reported that human neo plasms, implanted as either a suspension of cells or a fine mince, often proliferated extensively for 810 days in the subcutaneous tissues of adult, x-radiated heterologous hosts before changes asso ciated with regression occurred; they did not sur vive in nonirradiated animals (2). Subsequently, it was noted that human tissues, similarly implanted in...

This paper proposes the use of the least-squares support vector machine (LS-SVM) as an alternative multivariate calibration method for the simultaneous quantification of some common adulterants (starch, whey or sucrose) found in powdered milk samples, using NIR spectroscopy with direct measurements by diffuse reflectance. Due to the spectral differences of the three adulterants a nonlinear beha...

1. [(32)P]Lecithin and [(32)P]phosphatidylethanolamine were prepared by incubating rat liver mince with [(32)P]phosphate. With these (32)P-labelled phospholipids conditions for the quantitative assay of phospholipase A activity were established. 2. The distribution of phospholipase A activity between subcellular fractions of the bovine adrenal medulla was determined. Phospholipases A(1) and A(2...

The effect of squid ink tyrosinase (SIT) and tannic acid (TA) on the properties of myofibrillar protein films from washed sardine mince was studied. The film made from film forming solution added with SIT (5 k units L-1) and TA (1 g L1) had the highest tensile strength (TS) (9.49 ± 0.11 MPa) but lowest elongation at break (EAB) (25.91 ± 1.81%) (P<0.05). The addition of mixture of SIT and TA red...

In this second paper, we consider again a set of elastic rods periodically distributed over an elastic plate whose thickness tends here to 0. This work is then devoted to describe the homogenization process for the junction of the rods and a thin plate. We use a technique based on two decompositions of the displacement field in each rod and in the plate. We obtain a priori estimates on each ter...

Progesterone receptor from an oviduct tissue mince incubated with (32P)orthophosphate was purified using affinity chromatography, gel filtration, and DEAE-Sephadex chromatography. Two receptor peaks were eluted from the DEAE column. Peak I contained one major protein band with a molecular weight of 90,000 and a 32P band at 90,000. Peak II also had a major 90,000-dalton protein band and a 32P ba...