Profiled tea extracts exemplifying the importance of characterizing food bioactives: opinion piece

OPINION PIECE The conundrum of IT management*

Received: 6 April 2007 Accepted: 2 August 2007 Abstract This paper presents a robust argument as to why it can be difficult for chief information officers (CIOs) to generate business value from investments that their organizations make in information technology (IT) with contemporary organizational structures, authority patterns, processes and mindsets. This argument is built on the subtle prem...

ISM Science Corner - Opinion Piece

By now many Canadians know that February is heart month, thanks to annual canvassing of the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. February, it turns out, is the peak month for heart attacks, but did you ever wonder why? If you subscribe to the notion that high cholesterol is the main or major risk factor for heart attacks, then you would be surprised to know that seasonal differences in choles...

Bactericidal activity of green tea extracts: the importance of catechin containing nano particles

When we drink green tea infusion, we believe we are drinking the extract of the green tea leaves. While practically each tea bag infused in 300 mL water contains about 50 mg of suspended green tea leaf particles. What is the role of these particles in the green tea effect is the objective of this study. These particles (three different size ranges) were isolated via varying speed centrifugation...

Globalization and Public Opinion Characterizing the Opposition

The importance of accurately characterizing lymphoproliferative disease.

The primary cutaneous CD30-positive (CD30+) T-cell lymphoproliferative disorders are a group of largely indolent diseases that manifest as nodules or tumors of the skin. The European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) has developed a modification of the World Health Organization (WHO) lymphoma classification system that specifically categorizes these entities. According t...