Although the beneficial effect of apple in the treatment of diarrhoea seems to have been known for many years, it is only in the last decade that it has found a place in medical literature. Schachter (1934) in one of his communications on this subject refers to a description of apple therapy in dysentery in an English book published in 1775. Apparently the treatment has been an ' old wives' tal...

Summary The first case of disappearance of apple-induced oral allergy syndrome in a birch pollen-allergic patient following omalizumab treatment is reported. This observation in a case of type 2 food allergy suggests that omalizumab is potentially an effective preventive treatment for patients with severe, type 1 food allergies.

We observe preferences over time of school children in a slightly modified food choice experiment of Read and van Leeuwen (1998). We use individuals aged between 6 and 18 in order to evaluate how time-related preferences evolve with increasing age. In contrast to existing literature dealing with changing discount rates over the life-cycle we do not ask for preferences between hypothetical payof...

Perea, Duñabeitia, and Carreiras (Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance 34:237-241, 2008) found that LEET stimuli, formed by a mixture of digits and letters (e.g., T4BL3 instead of TABLE), produced priming effects similar to those for regular words. This finding led them to conclude that LEET stimuli automatically activate lexical information. In the present study...

1 Department of Industrial Plant Science and Technology, College of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Republic of Korea 2 Department of Food Science and Biotechnology, College of Agricultural, Life and Environmental Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Republic of Korea * Corresponding author: Keum-Il Jang: E-mail...

Several ancient apple varieties and a wild apple variety grown in Croatia were analysed for the polyphenol content and compared to two varieties grown in USA. In the flesh, flavanols, dihydrochalcones and phenolic acids (24 to 137, 23 to 109, 3 to 238 mg kg 1 of fresh weight (FW), respectively) were found. Peel contained flavanols, dihydrochalcones, phenolic acids, flavonols and anthocyanins (6...

In this research, we aim to enhance descriptive quality of role-concept in our ontology development system Hozo. Based on some fundamental theories of ontology, we can define a “concept” of a role which an object plays in a context, although that is treated as one kind of “property” in most of the ontology development systems. When constructing an ontology, discrimination of role-concepts from ...

We conducted simple sequence repeat (SSR) analyses of 15 traditional quince (Cydonia oblonga) cultivars from Anatolian gene sources for molecular characterization and investigation of genetic relationships. Three pear and two apple cultivars were used as references for SSR locus data analysis and to determine allele profiles between species. Eight SSR loci that were developed from apple and pea...

Over 300 million people worldwide are obese (WHO 2010), including over 34 percent of the American adult population (Ogden et al. 2007). As these numbers grow ever faster every year and as people correspondingly succumb to health-related problems, the topic of health maintenance has become increasingly important and has begun to attract corresponding attention from consumer researchers (Agrawal,...

Introduction The poor growth of fruit trees that occurs after replanting on a site that previously supported the same or closely related species is termed “replant disease.” In apple, replant disease is widespread and has been documented in all of the major fruitgrowing regions of the world (Traquair, 1984). Apple replant disease is characterized by uneven growth of young trees but, when severe...