In recent years, the increasing number of health conscious, informed, and more demanding consumers has led to an increase in demand for healthy, safe, and environmentally friendly food products. The food industry has responded to this increased demand by offering a wider range of quality-differentiated products (Fraz~o and Allshouse 1996), including organic foods, products with other nutritiona...

Abstract Food is often one of the most distinctive expressions social, religious, cultural or ethnic groups. However, archaeological identification specific religious dietary practices, including Jewish tradition keeping kosher , associated with ritual food practices and taboos, very rare. This arguably oldest known diets across world and, for an observant Jew, maintaining laws (known as Kashru...

Because veal lean color continues to be a primary factor that determines veal carcass value and is typically assessed by subjective means, it is important to explore objective methods for color assessment. Objective and subjective evaluations of veal flank and breast lean color were compared as predictors of longissimus lean color at 24 h postmortem. One hundred fifty special-fed Holstein veal ...

The paper presents a formal lexicalized dependency grammar based on Meaning-Text theory. This grammar associates semantic graphs with sentences. We propose a fragment of a grammar for French, including the description of extractions. The main particularity of our grammar is it that it builds bubble trees as syntactic representations, that is, trees whose nodes can be filled by bubbles, which ca...

Vertebrate long bones form through a process called endochondral ossification in which a cartilage template is replaced by a bony matrix (Erlebacher et al., 1995). Chondrocytes arise out of mesenchymal condensations and establish the skeletal element (Erlebacher et al., 1995). As the element grows, cells in the center become hypertrophic, transitioning from a mitotically active, type II collage...

OBJECTIVE It has been a little more than a year ago since the prophylactic vaccine against human papillomavirus (HPV) was released in Malaysia. Little is known about parental knowledge and acceptability of the vaccine. The objective of this study is to assess the mother's knowledge and attitudes toward HPV vaccination. The results are aimed to provide insights into the provision of appropriate ...

godina XVII (2015.) ■ siječanj-veljača ■ broj 1 ■ MESO ■ 73 INTRODUCTION Meat production makes a signicant part of the total value of agricultural production in many countries, and given it is labour-intensive, meat production contributes to the increase in employment both on farms and in entire rural areas (Ažderski et al. 2011). Cattle rearing plays an important role in landscape conservatio...