Mycotoxin (aflatoxins) contamination of peanuts is a great concern for human health. A total of 72 samples of unripe, roasted, and salty peanuts were collected randomly from Pothohar plateau of Pakistan for the assessment of aflatoxin. Samples were dried, ground and extracted by acetonitrile (84%). The filtered extracts were cleaned up by MycoSep-226 and analyzed by high performance liquid chro...

Mimicking biological structures such as fruits and seeds using molecules and molecular assemblies is a great synthetic challenge. Here we report peanut-shaped nanostructures comprising two fullerene molecules fully surrounded by a dumbbell-like polyaromatic shell. The shell derives from a molecular double capsule composed of four W-shaped polyaromatic ligands and three metal ions. Mixing the do...

This is a formatted version of the final manuscript. Although it is almost identical to the printed version, it is not a copy of it! In a recent text on visual cognition, Houghton, Tipper, Weaver, and Shore (1996) illustrated the basic problem of selective attention by inviting their readers to imagine a fictitious peanut-eater, whose only aim is to eat peanuts. Equipped with a sensory apparatu...

Peanuts and peanut-containing products have been linked to at least seven salmonellosis outbreaks worldwide in the past two decades. In response, the Technical Committee on Food Microbiology of the North American Branch of the International Life Sciences Institute collaborated with the American Peanut Council to convene a workshop to develop a framework for managing risk in low-moisture food c...

Peanuts receive major emphasis because of the crop's importance to the economy of southeastern Virginia and the magnitude of pesticide use in crop management. In 1992, growers planted 93,000 acres of the crop and harvested an estimated 123,225 tons of peanuts with a value of ca. 79 million dollars in farm income. When coupled with the shelling, processing and shipping industries in the Tidewate...

Three studies supported the hypothesis that people can become mentally and physically passive when resources are depleted by prior acts of self-control. Feeling depleted and recent self-regulatory exertion were associated with preferences for passive behaviors like resting and watching TV. Participants who had to maintain attention in the face of distractions preferred to avoid making consumer ...

Peanuts, cottonseed, rice, and sorghum from Texas were sampled over a 3-year period. To insure adequate isolation of alfatoxin-producing species of fungi, low-quality lots were sampled at a rate greater than their respective proportional representation. Aflatoxins were found each year in peanut and cottonseed and were found in 2 of 3 years in rice and sorghum. Aflatoxins were detected in all fo...

In this study, we observed comminution behavior of food on buccal and lingual side by sieve method. Six dentate subjects participated in this study. Peanuts were used as the test food and chewed for 1-8, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 and 24 strokes on their preferred chewing side. Peanuts were gathered separately from buccal and lingual sides after varying number of chewing strokes. The crushed pe...

An improved direct competitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (dc-ELISA) was developed for the analysis of cyclopiazonic acid (CPA) in corn, peanuts, and mixed feed. Two new approaches were used for the preparation of enzyme markers; one involved coupling CPA-bovine serum albumin (CPA-BSA) conjugate to horseradish peroxidase (HRP) using either the glutaraldehyde (GA) or the periodate (PI) me...

the aim of the present study was to characterize allergen-specific immunoglobulin e (ige) among children in fez region. eighty one children were recruited from the hospital university center of fez. all of them had completed a questionnaire before taking sera. the sera were used to measure total ige and specific data to proteins of egg's white (ewp), peanuts (pp) and gliadins (g). in last part,...