A total of three experiments were conducted to compare physical and microbiological properties of raw and marinated broiler breast fillets selected as being either lighter or darker than normal. Visibly light- and dark-colored breast fillets were divided into marinated and control groups, and vacuum-tumbled for 20 min at 4 C under 80 kPa pressure. Breast fillets from the four treatment groups w...

The effect of Gibberellic Acid (GA3) and Benzyladenine (BA) on Aloe vera was evaluated at pot cultivation conditions. This study was performed in two factorial test based on complete random plan and 4 repeats with 12 treatments. The main factor was included spraying, drip and spraying + drip. Secondary factor was included concentrations of GA3 and BA at 0, 100...

The 7-day storage effects on the quality of chicken breast meat and sirloin beef were evaluated at -2°C, -5°C -18°C. Drip loss increased, a sensory score showed lower as time increased. Storage -2°C resulted in less drip superior scores for both compared to stored also retained redness better than two temperatures. Cooking cooked traditional oven, simmered, or convection oven was significantly ...

Unacceptable water-holding capacity costs the meat industry millions of dollars annually. However, limited progress has been made toward understanding the mechanisms that underlie the development of drip or purge. It is clear that early postmortem events including rate and extent of pH decline, proteolysis and even protein oxidation are key in influencing the ability of meat to retain moisture....

Drip irrigation systems are becoming more and mature now widely used to improve crop yield nitrogen use efficiency in Xinjiang, NW China. However, it is not known if leaching occurring or whether will harm the water environment following N fertilization drip irrigation. The purpose of our study was estimate volumes, losses, forms loss coefficients under different fertilization, P K regimes. A l...

The conservation of water is crucial to sustainable agricultural production in areas of low rainfall or uneven precipitation distribution. Under such circumstances, drip irrigation methods offer a useful option for economic production of vegetable crops. This preliminary study examined the efficacy and performance of two drip irrigation methods on cucumber and tomato crops grown out of season. ...

We studied the sources and transport of carbon in two active karst systems in central Texas, Inner Space Cavern (IS) and Natural Bridge North and South Caverns (NB), to provide new insights into the interpretation of speleothem (cave calcite deposit) carbon isotope compositions. We have determined the dC values of soil CO2 (d Cs) in grassland and savanna above these caves with dC values of cave...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Interhospital transfer after use of intravenous tissue-type plasminogen activator (tPA) in acute stroke (drip and ship) is increasingly frequent. Small studies have suggested that drip and ship tPA is safe and increases rates of tPA use; however, little is known about real-world practice patterns. We sought to evaluate temporal trends in drip and ship tPA use and to compa...

Water-holding capacity of fresh meat (ability to retain inherent water) is an important property of fresh meat as it affects both the yield and the quality of the end product. This characteristic can be described in several ways, but in fresh products that have not been extensively processed, it is often described as drip loss or purge. The mechanism by which drip or purge is lost from meat is ...

Low quality pork can possess unacceptable characteristics known as PSE. This condition is evidenced by a very light gray color. Furthermore, the muscle is very soft in texture and lacks the ability to hold water. Thus, the appearance of PSE pork reveals a very light color with soft appearance and separation between muscles with exudate (drip, purge, or moisture loss from the muscle) that ranges...