The effectiveness of three sanitizers in killing Salmonella during room temperature storage with and without contaminating feces, egg, or chicken rinse for 48 h was tested. Uncontaminated sanitizers were tested, as were 50-mL solutions of 0.035% polyhexamethylenebiguanide hydrochloride (PHMB), 0.39% (1:256) Tektrol, and 1.4% H2O2, which were contaminated with 10 mL of a feces slurry, 10 mL of m...

Herpes simplex viruses (HSV) multiply readily on the chorioallantoic membrane (CAM) of embryonated hen's egg and produce easily visible foci or pocks on this membrane. In the present study, pocks produced by the two antigenic types of HSV (1 & 2) were compared to evaluate the effectiveness of typing HSV isolates by pock size on CAMs. A total of 57 HSV isolates from both non-genital and genital ...

egg yolk is the most commonly used cryoprotective agent for sperm cryopreservation of several species.the objective of this experiment was to compare the effectiveness of egg yolk from four avian species(domestic chicken, duck, turkey and pigeon) on sperm quality following cryopreservation of the ram semen.ejaculates were collected, using an electroejaculator, from six fertile rams. samples wer...

In this study, we have rationally designed and successfully developed sulfated graphene oxide (GO-OSO3H) with -OSO3H groups attached to the carbon basal plane of reduced GO surrounded with edge-functionalized -COOH groups. The resultant GO-OSO3H is demonstrated to be an excellent hole extraction layer (HEL) for polymer solar cells (PSCs) because of its proper work function for Ohmic contact wit...

Monoclinic crystals of hen egg-white lysozyme (E.C. 3.2.1.17, HEL) grown at low pH in the presence of NaNO(3) belong to space group P2(1) with unit-cell dimensions, a = 28.0, b = 62.5, c = 60.9 A and beta= 90.8 degrees with two molecules in the asymmetric unit. 1.8 A resolution intensity data, collected on a CAD-4 diffractometer, contained 17 524 reflections with F > 3sigma (93% complete). Our ...

Chicken eggs are one of the most important foods in the human diet all over the world, and the demand for eggs from free range hens has steadily increased. Congener-specific analyses of 17 polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans (PCDD/Fs) were performed on 6 free range and 12 caged chicken egg samples collected in Taiwan. The mean level of PCDD/Fs in the free range egg samples was 5...

The effects of moulting and age on egg geometry were evaluated during three age groups in four varities of Aseel chicken. For this purpose, a total of 168 eggs from four varieties of Aseel hens (Mushki, Lakha, Mianwali and Peshawari), each having 3 age groups (young, 50-67 weeks; medium, 80 -97 weeks and old, 115-132 weeks) were collected during pre and post-moult phases. The data on egg geomet...

In technicolor theories a large radiative correction to the Zbb vertex generally emerges, because of the large top quark mass and SU (2) L gauge symmetry. The correction can give us an explanation for the deviation of the experimental value of R b ≡ Γ b /Γ h from the standard-model prediction. However, generally the T parameter becomes unacceptably large. We show that in the one-family technico...

We construct a one-family technicolor model which is consistent with the precision experiments on the electroweak interaction. The Majorana mass of the right-handed techni-neutrino is introduced and the techni-U (1) B−L symmetry is gauged to obtain the correct breaking of the electroweak symmetry. The tree-level kinetic mixing between the techni-U (1) B−L and U (1) Y gauge bosons plays an impor...