The friction properties of ackee apple (Blighia sapida) seeds at an 11.9, 17, 22, 27, and 32% (w.b.) seed moisture were determined, which are vital for designing their processing techniques equipment to replace the present manual methods. grows in many West African countries, especially Nigeria. harvested Lanlate, Oyo State, Nigeria, where trees predominant. Standard experimental methods adopte...

Rodrigo Cayô, Fernanda Rodrigues-Costa, Adriana P. Matos, Cecilia G. Carvalhaes, Thomas Jové, Ana C. Gales Laboratório Alerta, Disciplina de Infectologia, Departamento de Medicina, Universidade Federal de São Paulo-UNIFESP, São Paulo, SP, Brazil; Université de Limoges, UMR 1092, Limoges, France; INSERM, UMR 1092, Limoges, France; CHU Limoges, Laboratoire de Bactériologie-Virologie-Hygiène, Limo...

Pig kidney general acyl-CoA dehydrogenase is irreversibly inactivated by methylenecyclopropylacetyl-CoA, a metabolite of the hypoglycemic amino acid hypoglycin from Blighia sapida, to less that 2% of native activity. Octanoyl-CoA affords strong protection against this inhibition. During inactivation, about 80% of the enzyme FAD is covalently and irreversibly modified with the residual inhibitio...

Hypoglycin-A (Hassall, Reyle & Feng, 1954), is a toxic polypeptide isolated from the fruit of Blighia sapida-known as the ackee in Jamaica. The toxin produces an acute hypoglycaemia and a depletion of liver glycogen in experimental animals. The fruit is a common dietary item locally, and it has been suspected as one of the causes of ‘vomiting sickness ’, which is an acute syndrome with high mor...

BACKGROUND Over exploitation of many traditional medicinal plants like Myrica esculenta has become a threat and in the near future, many medicinal plants may be unavailable for use of industry. OBJECTIVE Present study outlines the concept of plant part substitution. Stem bark and small branches of M. esculenta are compared on the basis of physicochemical analysis, phytochemical analysis, tota...

MEDEX is a fuzzy expert system for nowcasting gale-force winds in the Mediterranean. Kuciauskas et al. (1996) and Hadjimichael et al. (1996) have described, respectively, the general development and fuzzy aspects of MEDEX, which focuses on topographically-channeled winds that occur under certain synoptic conditions. As such, a key synoptic input to MEDEX is the 500 mb circulation pattern affect...

In 1983, I told Richard Manning about Gale and Shapley’s beautiful 1962 paper on matching. He asked whether in the Gale-Shapley it was in the interest of all participants to tell the truth. We rather quickly showed that in general it is not in the interest of the recipients of offers to be truthful. In fact we were able to show that no mechanism can guarantee efficient assignments and be cheatp...

To cite: Gale C, Juszczak E. Arch Dis Child Educ Pract Ed 2016;101:265–267. INTRODUCTION A clinical trial is a research study that prospectively assigns health-related interventions to people (or groups) typically using randomisation to evaluate the effects on health outcomes. Welldesigned, suitably powered, randomised, trials provide the most reliable evidence about the effectiveness (or not) ...

Oxidative stress is highly associated with the development of cardiovascular diseases and cancer and has drawn great attention. Natural products suggest a potential role in prevention of these disorders. The aim of this study was to investigate the antioxidant and anti-cancer properties of Chinese bayberry leaves (Myrica rubra Sieb. et Zucc.) flavonoids (BLF) comprehensively through the combina...