A part of apples destined to juice production is generally of poor quality. Apples from cold storage or recently harvest (ground harvested or low quality apples) are stored under ambient conditions until they are processed. Since Penicillium expansum and P. griseofulvum are the principal fungal species isolated from stored apples in Brazil, the objective of this study was to investigate the abi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of storage of human muscle biopsies on passive mechanical properties. METHODS Stress-strain analysis accompanied by laser diffraction assisted sarcomere length measurement was performed on single muscle fibres from fresh samples and compared with single fibres from stored samples (-20 degrees C, 4 weeks) with the same origin a...

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) have been shown to be inhibitory toward various pathogenic bacteria during refrigerated storage of ground beef samples and in subprimals. In this study, the effectiveness of a combination of 4 strains of Lactobacillus at reducing Salmonella in turkey products was evaluated to improve the final safety of the product. Turkey breasts (hot and chilled) were inoculated wit...

In the present paper, mechanics of puncturing is studied with refer to a foreign tool penetrating soft (nearly incompressible) target solid. The here described by sharp tipped rigid needle circular cross section. Puncturing can be characterised as Mode I fracture process, which analytically two-dimensional model related plane normal penetration axis. It shown that force required for onset depen...

To provide fruit throughout the whole year, maintain quality and reduce spoilage, apples pears are stored at low temperature. However, development of rots, caused mainly by Penicillium expansum, cannot be avoided. prevent losses, biological control has been proposed as a potential alternative. In this work, 16 psychrotrophic, non-pectinolytic Debaryomyces hansenii strains were evaluated in bioa...

The arterial wall is a composite where the preferred orientation of collagen fibers induces anisotropy. Though the hyperelastic theories of fiber-reinforced composites reached a high level of sophistication and showed a reasonable correspondence with the available experimental data they are short of the failure description. Following the tradition of strength of materials the failure criteria a...