Douchiba, a traditional Chinese soy-fermented appetizer, has been abundantly produced and widely consumed in Guizhou province of Southwest China. In this study, analysis of low-molecular mass peptide fractions, hydrophobic bitter peptide fractions, and free amino acid (FAA) profiles was conducted to understand the changes in tasty components of douchiba during five consecutive stages of its man...

E-commerce has become one of the major consumption patterns currently. Understanding consumer e-commerce shopping behavior helps to improve the competitiveness of enterprises. The purpose of this study is to examine service justice as the antecedent factor of dysfunctional customer behavior (DCB) and how it interacts with negative emotion and service dissatisfaction, which in turn, affect DCB. ...

The effects of chlorinated benzene compounds on marine animals are not well known. Until recently, only hexachlorobenzene (HCB) had received attention in pollution studies: In a report published by the National Academy of Sciences (1975) this substance is labelled a marine pollutant of special concern. Last year. Project scientists analyzed municipal wastewater samples for HCB and three other c...

It is generally recognized that dimethylformamide (DMF) and ethanol are good media to uniformly disperse graphene, and therefore have been used widely in the preparation of epoxy/graphene nanocomposites. However, as a solvent to disperse graphene, dichlorobenzene (DCB) has not been fully realized by the polymer community. Owing to high values of the dispersion component (δd) of the Hildebrand s...

Fluorescence intensity and its ratio mapping combined with time-dependent optical microscopy and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were used to understand morphology evolution of local aggregates and neighboring regions for organic solar cells. Three solvents with different boiling points including chlorobenzene (CB), 1,3-dichlorobenzene (1,3-DCB) and 1,2-dichlorobenzene (1,2-DCB) were used to engi...

In this paper, the data reduction equations for common delamination toughness tests are rederived for use with specimens which have bonded doublers. The common toughness tests considered here are the double cantilever beam (DCB) for mode I toughness; the end notch flexure (3ENF) and 4 point ENF (4ENF) for mode II toughness; and the mixed mode bending (MMB) test for testing under combined mode I...

SUMMARY Recently, several high profile studies collected cell viability data from panels of cancer cell lines treated with many drugs applied at different concentrations. Such drug sensitivity data for cancer cell lines provide suggestive treatments for different types and subtypes of cancer. Visualization of these datasets can reveal patterns that may not be obvious by examining the data witho...

In this paper we discuss the effects on throughput and fairness of dynamic channel bonding (DCB) in spatially distributed high density (HD) wireless local area networks (WLANs). First, we present an analytical framework based on continuous time Markov networks (CTMNs) for depicting the phenomena given when applying different DCB policies in spatially distributed scenarios, where nodes are not r...

2-Dodecylcyclobutanone (2-DCB) is formed by the radiolysis of palmitic acid and is present at low part-per-million (approximately 0.1 g/g) levels in irradiated meat products. Recently, equivocal results obtained using a DNA strand breakage test, the Comet Assay, raised the possibility that 2-DCB could be a weak genotoxin. To more accurately assess 2-DCB’s potential genotoxicity, it was tested f...

Chlorobenzenes are the colourless liquid with an almond-like odour. The compound does not occur widely in nature, but it is one of those chemicals which are produced industrially in large amounts. They have many applications, such as intermediate products of the chemical and pharmaceutical industries and as biocides and additives [1]. Chlorination of chlorobenzenes in the presence of variety of...