When germs travel

Effects of Lactic Fermentation by Lactobacillus acidophilus and Lactobacillus plantarum on Antioxidant Characteristics and Lipase and Lipoxygenase Activities of Wheat Germs

Background and Objectives: Wheat germ is the most nutritious part of wheat grains, which has a short shelf-life due to its high lipid contents and presence of lipase and lipoxygenase enzymes. Thus, wheat germs are separated from the whole wheat grains during the flouring process, mostly used as animal foods. The objective of this study was to investigate effects of fermentation by Lactobacillus...

Give us this day our daily germs.

Are we sparing the dirt and spoiling our children's immune systems? The theory that some germs are necessary in developing healthy immune systems is gaining credence as more evidence emerges. It is vital that we find out which germs are needed, when and how, before the increase in diseases attributable to faulty regulation of the immune system (allergies, autoimmunity, inflammatory bowel diseas...

Stochastic watershed segmentation

This paper introduces a watershed-based stochastic segmentation methodology. The approach is based on using M realizations of N random markers to build a probability density function (pdf) of contours which is then segmented by volumic watershed for de ning the R most signi cant regions. It over-performs the standard watershed algorithms when the aim is to segment complex images into a few regi...

Third edition of the Central and Eastern European Meeting on Viral Hepatitis and Co-infection with HIV.

Milnor Algebras and Equivalence Relations among Holomorphic Functions

Let On+i denote the ring of germs at the origin of holomorphic functions (C ,0) —• C. As a ring 0n+i has a unique maximal ideal ra, the set of germs of holomorphic functions which vanish at the origin. Let Gn+\ be the set of germs at the origin of biholomorphisms <\>: (C ,0) —• (C ,0). The following are three fundamental equivalent relations in 0n+iDEFINITION 1. Let ƒ, g be two germs of holomor...