The effects of two transport systems and cryoprotective agents on the survival of bacteria in ground beef samples were evaluated. Survival of Clostridium perfringens in ground beef samples after simulated transport (72 h) was higher (about 99%) in Dry Ice than in Trans Temp shipping units (-3 degrees C). There were no significant differences between the two transport systems in survival of coli...

In this note, we present a collision attack on AURORA-512, which is one of the candidates for SHA-3. The attack complexity is approximately 2 AURORA-512 operations, which is less than the birthday bound of AURORA-512, namely, 2. Our attack exploits some weakness in the mode of operation. keywords: AURORA, DMMD, collision, multi-collision 1 Description of AURORA-512 We briefly describe the speci...

One of the most popular approaches to parameter adaptation in hidden Markov model (HMM) based systems is the maximum likelihood linear regression (MLLR) technique. In our previous work, we proposed factored MLLR (FMLLR) where an MLLR parameter is defined as a function of a control parameter vector. We presented a method to train the FMLLR parameters based on a general framework of the expectati...

1. Fever (temp >37.8 0 C) 2. Production of purulent sputum 3. Cough 4. Leucocytosis (WBC count >10000/ cumm) 1 The etiological agents of CAP are different in different countries. It varies with time and geographical distribution within the same country. Streptococcus pneumoniae is the most common etiological agent in United Kingdom, Europe, United States of America and Iraq. In India S. pneumon...

Domain-wall free energy sigmaF, entropy sigmaS, and the correlation function C(temp) of sigmaF are measured independently in the four-dimensional +/-J Edwards-Anderson (EA) Ising spin glass. The stiffness exponent theta, the fractal dimension of domain walls d(s), and the chaos exponent zeta are extracted from the finite-size scaling analysis of sigmaF, sigmaS, and C(temp), respectively, well i...

Every year Soldiers become lost or injured. This project gives the ability to track where Soldiers are at any given moment. Search and rescue efforts become minimized in time and resources. Additionally, with alert feature Soldiers will be able to communicate their distress with GPS coordinate information. Location tracking has been of great importance since World War II, when military planners...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEM The provisional restorative materials in fixed prosthodontics are basically bis-GMA resins which releases exothermic temperature while polymerization which can damage the pulp. Intrapulpal temperature exceeding 42.5°C found to result in irreversible damage to the pulp. The remaining thickness of dentine after tooth preparation control the conduction of heat released by the ...

The application of Butane tetra carboxylic acid/nano titanium dioxide [(BTCA)/Nano TiO2 (NTO)] on cotton fabric has been used to cross-linked cellulose, and yield higher NTO absorption and enhanced selfcleaning properties. In this research, the synergistic effect of BTCA and NTO on antibacterial properties of the cotton fabric was investigated. The NTO particles were stabilized on the cotton su...

The cypermethrin (synthetic pyrethroids) has shows strong piscicidal activity in freshwater teleost fish Colisa fasciatus for all the exposure periods (24h or 96h) in time as well as dose dependent manner. The LC values decreases from 0.009 (24h) to 0.006 (96h) in winter season (water temp. 16°C) and 0.06 (24h) to 50 0.02 (96h) in summer season (water temp. 28°C). Sub-lethal doses (40 and 60% o...

We present experimental evidence which confirms recently proposed ring current prediction methods for assigning hydrogen-bond proton nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectra from tRNA (Robillard, G. T., Tarr, C. E., Vosman, F., & Berendsen, H. J. C. (1976) Nature (London) 262, 363-369; Robillard, G. T., Tarr, C. E., Vosman, F., & Sussman, J. L. (1977) Biophys. Chem. 6, 291-298). The evidence is...