The study aimed to assess the natural fruit ripening duration, quality, and consumer preference of 3 elite durian cultivars-‘Monthong’, ‘Musang King’, ‘Ocee’-after harvest. From day harvest at maturity stage until second fresh fruits emitted aroma; ‘Monthong’ took 9 days for full measured by duration value significantly (p < 0.05) longer 4 than King’ ‘Ocee’. This indicated that storage life ...

The examination of flesh of 313 cyprinid fish from the Nam Ngum water reservoir in Vientiane Province, Laos, revealed the presence of four morphologically similar opisthorchiid and heterophyid metacercariae of medical importance. The following morphological characters, visible under dissecting microscope with low magnification, were typical of trematodes recorded in fish: (1) Opisthorchis viver...

a study of the combining ability and gene effects, that can obtained through diallel cross analysis provides considerable information to breeders for a design of breeding programs. inheritance and genetic control of yield and its components were studied in a full diallel cross for seven iranian cantaloupe cultivars namely: rish-baba, shah-abadi, samsouri, dastjerdi, magasi-neyshabour, till-toro...

Genotypic variation in composition and antioxidant activity was evaluated using 25 cultivars, 5 each of white-flesh nectarines, yellow-flesh nectarines, white-flesh peaches, yellow-flesh peaches, and plums, at the ripe (ready-to-eat) stage. The ranges of total ascorbic acid (vitamin C) (in mg/100 g of fresh weight) were 5-14 (white-flesh nectarines), 6-8 (yellow-flesh nectarines), 6-9 (white-fl...

The influence of corn silage feeding level was examined on eighty-three Charolais crossbred steers (389+30 kg BW). Each steer was randomly assigned to one of four diets which contained either 0, 15, 50 or 85 percent corn silage (CS) dry matter. Each ration was balanced to a 13.6 percent crude protein level. Mineral, vitamin and ionophore fortifications (monensin @ 33 ppm) were similar for each ...

in this study, proximate composition and sensory evaluation of giant gourami compared with rainbow trout and common carp. brightness (l*) was significantly higher than the other species and this leads to the highest score in sensory evaluation of the fillet color. moreover eci index of carp was significantly higher than that of the other two fish, in body part. between the species, hardness, ch...

The time is ripe to start a science of identities for their own sake, without paying lip-service to high-brow mathematics. Although putting combinatorial, (abstract-) algebraic or analytic flesh and blood on identities did lead and will lead to considerable insight as well as new identities, there is also much to be gained in forgetting advanced mathematics, and starting a new sub-discipline of...

STUDY DESIGN Clinical measurement, reliability study. OBJECTIVES To investigate the improvements in precision when averaging multiple measurements of percent change in muscle thickness of the transversus abdominis (TrA) and lumbar multifidus (LM) muscles. BACKGROUND Although the reliability of TrA and LM muscle thickness measurements using rehabilitative ultrasound imaging (RUSI) is good, m...