Case 1 Thirty one years old male that presented at age 15 allergic rhinoconjunctivitis and cutaneous pruritus after ingestion of honey and spices. Three years later, he had the same symptoms with ingestion of pepper. Skin prick tests were positive to grass, mugwort, dandelion and ragweed pollen, as well as pepper, curry, paprika and anise. Serum specific IgE was positive to carrot, pea, white b...

Aspergillus steynii and Aspergillus westerdijkiae are the main ochratoxin A (OTA) producing species of Aspergillus section Circumdati. Due to its recent description, few data are available about the influence of ecophysiological factors on their growth and OTA production profiles. In this work, the effect of temperature (20, 24 and 28 °C) and water activity (aw) (0.928, 0.964 and 0.995) on grow...

BACKGROUND Head louse infestations are prevalent worldwide. Over the past 20-25 years, 15-20% of all children in Israel between 4 and 13 years of age have been infested with head lice. This is mainly due to the existence of ineffective pediculicides on the market. OBJECTIVE To examine the pediculicidal efficacy and safety of a natural remedy ("Chick-Chack") and to compare it in an open clinic...

Consideration of services in the Intelligent Network and telecommunications leads to the definition of ANISE (Architectural Notions In Service Engineering). This is a rigorous language for defining services systematically using a hierarchy of constituent features. The basic telephone call is used as an illustrative example, supplemented by a number of variations that show how ANISE can easily c...

It is argued that languages constructs for defining services are important in providing well-structured descriptions. This view is illustrated with two service definition languages, Anise (Architectural Notions In Service Engineering) and Cress (Chisel Representation Employing Structured Specifications). Anise is a mainly textual notation for defining services through the composition of simpler...

The antibacterial activity of essential oils hydrodistilled from local anise, coriander, cumin, marjoram, rosemary and thyme were screened against a group of food-borne pathogens comprising Staphylococcus aureus, Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli, Escherichia coli O157:H7, Salmonella Typhimurium and Bacillus cereus. All the tested bacterial strains displayed varying degrees of susceptibi...

The present investigation was carried out to assess the effect of some safe treatments to maintain the quality attributes of “Swelling” peaches during cold storage at 0C and RH (90-95%) for four weeks two successive seasons 2015-2016. post-harvest treatments were applied by spraying the fruits with one of Anise oil concentration 0.5 %, 1.0 %, Ozone treatments 2ppm for 10min or 20min, irradiatio...