The environment in which foods are prepared and handled can have significant impact on microbiological safety and quality, particularly for ready-to-eat foods. Outbreaks associated with Listeria monocytogenes and salmonellae have led to an increasing awareness that certain pathogens can persist in food processing environments, contaminate foods as they are being processed and lead to foodborne ...

AIM Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) may promote hyperglycemia and insulin resistance. Our aim is to investigate the effect of OSAS on the fasting plasma glucose, glycosylated hemoglobin (HbA1c), and C reactive protein (CRP) in nondiabetic patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Blood parameters of consecutive 90 non diabetic patients whom polysomnografic evaluations were done in our sleep labo...

In this study, walnut genotypes that were selected during two growing seasons among thousands of seedlings analyzed in terms detailed morphometric, phenological, and chemical traits. A multivariate analysis was conducted with valuable traits for breeding selection such as morphometric traits, composition, phenological characteristics. Also, characterized by a retrotransposon-based iPBS marker s...

Correspondence: Silvia Bison Neuroscience Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery, GlaxoSmithKline, Medicines Research Centre, Via A Fleming 4, Verona, Italy Tel +39 045 821 8451 Fax +39 045 821 8375 Email [email protected] Abstract: In animals, systemic administration of lipopolysaccharide (LPS) induces a characteristic set of responses that has been termed sickness behavior. In the prese...

In this paper, we present a clustering-based color indexing scheme for effective amd efficient image retrieval, which is essentially an exploration on the application of clustering technique to image retrieval. In our approach, the color features are clustered automatically using a color clustering algorithm twice (called two-level clustering processing) and two color feature summarizations are...

A Euclidean t-design, as introduced by Neumaier and Seidel (1988), is a finite set X ⊂ Rn with a weight function w : X → R+ for which

eSports gaming requires quick and accurate reactions in response to complex visual stimuli for optimal performance. The purpose of this study was examine the relationship between components physical fitness reaction time (RT) gamers. 27 gamers participated. Visit 1 included assessments. 2 a familiarization with Stroop Task. During 3, subjects completed Task again; data from visit used analyses....