The oxidation state of traditional fish products was measured by determining the malondialdehyde (MDA) level by HPLC and the results were compared to those given by a spectrophotometric method. The procedure involves oxidation of the products by incubation at 40 degrees C for 3 d. Samples were steam distilled in a Kjeldahl distillation apparatus and the MDA was determined in the aqueous distill...

Malondialdehyde (MDA) is one of the most commonly reported biomarkers of lipid peroxidation in clinical studies. The reaction of thiobarbituric acid (TBA) with MDA to yield a pink chromogen attributable to an MDA-TBA₂ adduct is a common assay approach with products being quantified by ultraviolet-Vis assay as nonspecific TBA-reactive substances (TBARS) or chromatographically as MDA. The specifi...

Even though SOA provides real contribution, it is not adequate to implement enterprise integration. There are still problems in the implementation of enterprise integration in SOA environment, they are 1) the absence of modeling language support, 2) the absence of guideline of the services implementation produced by services identification, and 3) service orchestration that uses only Web Servic...

The MDA (Model Driven Architecture) is a new way of writing specifications and developing applications, based on a platform-independent model. A complete MDA specification consists of a definitive platformindependent base UML model, plus one or more platform-specific models and interface definition sets, each describing how the base model is implemented on a different middleware platform. A MDA...

Introduction: Fasting, like Islamic Ramadan Fasting, has been associated with health benefits. Islamic Ramadan fasting, a form of caloric restriction (CR) or alternate day fasting that. Studies suggest a comparable effect of ADF and caloric restriction. Despite the fact that fasting can be considered as a form of dietary restriction, fasters tend to have difficulty to reduce their food intake d...

In Model driven architecture (MDA) domain experts model their knowledge in a modeling language at a higher abstraction level than source code. The mapping from domain models to source code is often performed automatically, but programmers still have to implement many details manually. MDA brings domain experts and programmers closer together and makes the communication gap smaller. Often this i...

Abstract Sensory properties of foods mainly affect purchasing decisions. In case sausages, deterioration pigments meat and spices cause discolouration, while lipid oxidation leads to the formation off-odours, these two processes are connected. Lipid promotes conversion pigments, metmyoglobin accelerates oxidation. The scope study was investigate relationship between amount malondialdehyde equiv...

BACKGROUND The Global Programme to Eliminate Lymphatic Filariasis uses point-of-care tests for circulating filarial antigenemia (CFA) to map endemic areas and for monitoring and evaluating the success of mass drug administration (MDA) programs. We compared the performance of the reference BinaxNOW Filariasis card test (ICT, introduced in 1997) with the Alere Filariasis Test Strip (FTS, introduc...