Probiotics and allergies: myth or reality?

Carpet, Asthma and Allergies – Myth or Reality

Probiotics for oral health: myth or reality?

For some decades now, bacteria known as probiotics have been added to various foods because of their beneficial effects for human health. The mechanism of action of probiotics is related to their ability to compete with pathogenic microorganisms for adhesion sites, to antagonize these pathogens or to modulate the host"s immune response. The potential application of probiotics for oral health ha...

Probiotic fermented sausages: Myth or reality?

Experts view the development of functional foods as an opportunity for innovation for the meat industry in line with consumers’ concerns on food nutrition, well being and food safety. The main microbiota of fermented sausages consists of lactobacilli, which suggests that properly characterized strains could be selected as starter cultures. The selection of strains from human origin was consider...

Web Application Worms : Myth or Reality ? Automated , self - propagating attacks on vulnerabilities in custom Web application code

..................................................................... 3 Introduction ............................................................... 3 Anatomy of an Automated Application Worm ....... 4 War Searching............................................................ 5 Advanced War Searching.......................................... 7 The Search of Death ...................................

Ten turbidite myths

During the past 50 years, the turbidite paradigm has promoted many myths related to deep-water turbidite deposition. John E. Sanders (1926–1999), a pioneering process sedimentologist, first uncovered many of these turbidite myths. This paper provides a reality check by undoing 10 of these turbidite myths. Myth No. 1: turbidity currents are non-turbulent flows with multiple sediment-support mech...