The effect of aqueous solutions of ascorbic acid (AA) on the rancidity development in Cobia (Rachycentron canadum) fillets during frozen storage was studied. Cobia fillets were treated with ascorbic acid (AA 0.25% and AA 0.5%) then stored at -18°C up to 6 months. Rancidity development was measured by several biochemical indices including free fatty acids (FFA), peroxide value (PV), and thiobarb...

We examined the relationship of intraocular pressure and the development of one-kidney, one wrapped (perinephritic) hypertension in the dog. Conscious femoral arterial pressure (direct arterial puncture) and intraocular pressure (Schiotz tonometer) were measured weekly before and after the surgical induction of hypertension in 11 healthy male mongrel dogs and before and after unilateral nephrec...

use of such natural compounds as essential oils and plant extracts is considered as a safe method in control of postharvest diseases as well as delay in plant tissue senescence. in this study, the effects of clove essential oil and extract was investigated on decay control and on some quantitative characteristics of table grapes during storage. grape bunches, after having been treated with diff...

Crossbred pigs (n = 30) were fed to determine the influence of supplementation with vitamin E on growth and slaughter characteristics of swine and on the quality characteristics of fresh pork. Pigs received either a control diet containing no vitamin E (CON) or a diet formulated to contain 100 mg of vitamin E/kg feed (VITE). During 84 d of feeding, feed intake and weight gain were measured ever...

Elevated CO2 often increases grain yield in wheat by enhancing grain number per ear, which can result from an increase in the potential number of florets or a reduction in the death of developed florets. The hypotheses that elevated CO2 reduces floret death rather than increases floret development, and that grain size in a genotype with more grains per unit area is limited by the rate of grain ...

background: due to high content of unsaturated fatty acids, trout is susceptible to oxidative spoilage. in this study, the effects of thymus vulgaris essential oil (eo) and extract on oxidative stability of cooked rainbow trout fillet during four months frozen storage period were investigated. methods: three groups of fish fillets were treated with thyme eo and three other groups were treated w...

We construct a sheaf-theoretic analogue of the wrapped Fukaya category in Lagrangian Floer theory, by localizing sheaves microsupported away from some given Λ⊂S⁎M along continuation maps constructed using Guillermou-Kashiwara-Schapira sheaf quantization. When Λ is subanalytic singular isotropic, we also comparison map to compact objects unbounded Λ, and show that it an equivalence. The last sta...

Glucose was found to be a potential stimulator o f carthamin formation in triturated florets o f C. tinctorius. At a 10 m M glucose level, carthamin-producing activity was raised from 3.2fold (upper) to 2.0-fold (lower) level compared with the control having no sugar. Glucose oxi­ dase (ß-D-glucose: oxygen 1-oxidoreductase, EC 1.1.3.4) from Aspergillus niger could catalyze the conversion of pre...

In grasses, variation in seed size and dormancy often results from a seed's position within a dispersal unit. In this paper, I asked whether seed positional effect within a spikelet contributes to ecotypic differentiation between two populations of Avena sterilis having different species range position and associated aridity. I created experimental seed banks in which germination of seeds (flor...