This study investigated the sporulation behaviour of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris DSM 2498 under different culture condition, its cellular surface hydrophobicity. The effects of sanitizers used in cleaning-in-place (CIP) on the survival of this bacterium was also evaluated using a stainless steel 304 model system with total capacity of 25 litters. The higher hydrophobicity value was related...

Industrial eggshell waste (ES) is classified as an animal by-product not intended to human consumption. For reducing pathogen spreading risk due to soil incorporation of ES, sanitation by composting is a pre-treatment option. This work aims to evaluate eggshell waste recycling in self-heating composting reactors and investigate ES effect on process evolution and end product quality. Potato peel...

Listeria monocytogenes contamination of cantaloupes has become a serious concern as contaminated cantaloupes led to a deadly outbreak in the United States in 2011. To reduce cross-contamination between cantaloupes and to reduce resident populations on contaminated melons, application of sanitizers in packing shed wash water is recommended. The sanitizing agent of 5% levulinic acid and 2% sodium...

Chlorine dioxide (ClO2) is an unstable green-yellowish gas with an irritating odor [1]. In water, ClO2 exists as free radicals and as a powerful oxidizing agent, it reacts easily with reducing agents. The end products of ClO2 reactions are chloride (Cl-), chlorite (ClO-), and chlorate (ClO3) [2]. Chlorine dioxide is a promising food preservative as a substitute for chlorine (Cl2) because unlike...

In this paper, we present a novel scheme that allows multiple data publishers that continuously generate new data and periodically update existing data, to share sensitive individual records with multiple data subscribers while protecting the privacy of their clients. An example of such sharing is that of health care providers sharing patients’ records with clinical researchers. Traditionally, ...

The classroom is a valuable resource for conducting software engineering experiments. However, coordinating a family of experiments in classroom environments presents a number of challenges to researchers. Understanding how to run such experiments, developing procedures to collect accurate data, and collecting data that is consistent across multiple studies are major problems. ADVANCES IN COMPU...

Since the surfaces of cantaloupes are highly rough or irregular, bacteria can easily attach and become difficult to remove. Appropriate postharvest washing and sanitizing procedures can help control Salmonella and other pathogens on cantaloupe or other melons during postharvest operations. Delmopinol hydrochloride (delmopinol) is a cationic surfactant that is effective for treating and preventi...

Dietary guidance to the public stresses foods or food groups as specific sources of minerals such as calcium in dairy products, iron in meats and legumes, and potassium in oranges and bananas. Dietary guidance also identifies foods that are low in some minerals (such as sodium, potassium, calcium, cooper, and iron) for patients with specific disease conditions. However, the levels of minerals a...

Privacy preservation in data mining demands protecting both input and output privacy. The former refers to sanitizing the raw data itself before performing mining. The latter refers to preventing the mining output (model/pattern) from malicious pattern-based inference attacks. The preservation of input privacy does not necessarily lead to that of output privacy. This work studies the problem of...

This paper presents a case study of the key decisions made in the design of Orbit, a child sexual abuse prevention computer game targeted at school students between 8 and 10 years of age. Key decisions include providing supported delivery for the target age group, featuring adults in the program, not over-sanitizing game content, having a focus on building healthy self-concept of players, makin...