This study examined if pre-germination altered the water content and water activity, contents of phytate, total phenolic, (±)-catechin, quercetin and total antioxidant capacity of almond  (Prunus dulcis)kernel. Raw almond kernels were submerged for 15 hours in water, 0.02 mol dm-3 phosphate buffer solution (pH 5.0) and 0.02 mol dm-3 phosphate buffer solution (pH 7.0) at 25 and 40ºC, respectivel...

in the past 25 years, rising of the caspian sea level, part of a natural treat to the sea, has inundated and destroyed many buildings and arable lands and threatened many inhabitations in coastal areas. the main reason for these damages is that the law-setback has lost its efficiency and human activities have proceeded seaward. the goal of this study is to introduce a proper setback line for th...

the aim of this study was to develop a microemulsion system as a medium for laccase-catalyzed reactions. phase behavior studies were conducted by constructing partial pseudo-ternary phase diagrams for systems comprising of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (ctab), various organic solvents as the oil phase (i.e., hexane, cyclohexane, heptane, octane, isooctane, toluene, isopropyl myristate), two co...

We investigated the effects of carbon dioxide-producing and carbon dioxide-consuming buffers on intramyocardial pH and on cardiac resuscitability. In 29 pigs, intramyocardial pH was continuously measured with a glass electrode advanced into the midmyocardium of the posterior left ventricle through a diaphragmatic window. Ventricular fibrillation (VF) was electrically induced by alternating curr...

Dear Editor, In the past issue of the Iranian Journal Kidney Disease, Park and colleagues compared the standard peritoneal dialysis (PD) solution to the low glucose degradation products (GDP) solution in a 3-year follow-up.1 Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an effective and established form of renal replacement therapy in end -stage renal disease over the past 30 years, which is used by approximatel...

In the emerging research area of protocol processors (PP) there exist many hardware platform proposals. One example of such a platform solution has been proposed by the author in a series of papers, mainly focusing on datapath organization and optimization. The proposed platform is unique since the fast path process incoming packets before storage in the input buffer. This paper proposes that a...

MATERIALS 10x Amplification buffer Include 0.01% (w/v) gelatin in the buffer. 10x TBE electrophoresis buffer Use TBE at a working strength of 1x (89 mM Tris-borate, 2 mM EDTA) for polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. 6x Gel-loading buffer I Formamide loading buffer Human genomic DNA to be screened for point mutations Dissolve the DNA at 10 μg/ml in TE (pH 7.6). Oligonucleotide primers, forward a...

The great end-to-end delays are the major factor to influence the visual quality of real-time video across the Internet using TCP as transport layer protocol. In this paper, we present a video frame schedule scheme for rate adaptive real-time video transmission over TCP. The scheme schedules video frames between the application layer sender-buffer, the TCP sender-buffer and TCP receiver-buffer ...

BACKGROUND Amylases are among the main enzymes used in food and other industries. They hydrolyse starch molecules into polymers composing glucose units. Amylases have potential applications in a number of industrial processes including foods and pharmaceutical industries. Alkaline α-amylase has the potential of hydrolysing starch under alkaline pH and is useful in the starch and textile industr...