OBJECTIVE After investigating fixed airways obstruction in butter flavoring-exposed workers at a microwave popcorn plant, we sought to further characterize lung disease risk from airborne butter-flavoring chemicals. METHODS We analyzed data from medical and environmental surveys at six microwave popcorn plants (including the index plant). RESULTS Respiratory symptom and airways obstruction ...

The ‘popcorn function’ is a well-known and important example in real analysis with many interesting features. We prove that the box dimension of graph popcorn function 4/3, as well computing Assouad spectrum. main ingredients include Duffin-Schaeffer type estimates from Diophantine approximation Chung-Erdős inequality probability theory.

Popcorn is an important crop that grown for consumption and snacks production in Nigeria however; it has low poor yield to meet the demand country. This study was conducted determine effect of magnetic treatment irrigation water (MTIW) on percentage germination (GP), growth rate (GR), popping-quality popcorn under deficit irrigation. MTIW produced by passing through pipe surrounded with neodymi...

in this study, the effects of moisture content and corn variety on the physicochemical properties of popcorn were investigated and modeled using response surface methodology. each of the two corn varieties (hybrid corn ksc 600 pc and american) was prepared with a range of moisture (six moisture levels ranging from 10 to 20%) and popped by a hot air popper. variety and moisture content affected ...

BACKGROUND Organic foreign bodies swell when irrigated with water, potentially making extraction more difficult. As the degree and rate of swelling of different types of organic foreign bodies has not been established, we aimed to analyze the hydroscopic properties of different organic foreign bodies in body temperature water. METHODS Dry kidney beans, brown beans, peas, popcorn kernels, and ...

In May 2000, an occupational medicine physician contacted the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services (MoDHSS) to report eight cases of fixed obstructive lung disease in former workers of a microwave popcorn factory. Four of the patients were on lung transplant lists. All eight had a respiratory illness resembling bronchiolitis obliterans with symptoms of cough and dyspnea on exertion...

In an earlier paper, we discuss the “popcorn” model for baryon production in quark and gluon jets, and present an improved model (which we call Modified Popcorn Scenarium, MOPS). In this paper we give a manual to the MC program based on MOPS, and also discuss the application of the model to baryon fragmentation, i.e. fragmentation of strings originally contaning a diquark. Model predictions for...

Food tastes better and people eat more of it when eaten with company than alone. Although several explanations have been proposed for this social facilitation of eating, they share the basic assumption that this phenomenon is achieved by the existence of co-eating others. Here, we demonstrate a similar "social" facilitation of eating in the absence of other individuals. Elderly participants tas...