In this study, black peppercorns and cumin seeds were inoculated with a five-serotype cocktail of Salmonella or its surrogate Enterococcus faecium NRRL B-2354. The samples (ca. 107 CFU/g) treated by ClO2 gas at different concentrations (5, 10, 15 mg/L) relative humidities (60, 70, 80%) room temperature (25 °C) five exposure times 120, 180, 240, 300 min). More than 5-log reduction was achieved i...

COMPUTERIZED MONITORING HAS BEEN USED for decades to study the behavior of remote users of online library resources. The older method of using transaction log analysis to study how remote users interact with online catalogs and abstracting and indexing services recently has been complemented by the use of Web server log analysis to study how remote users navigate into and through library-create...

We study (weak) log abelian varieties with constant degeneration in the log flat topology. If the base is a log point, we further study the endomorphism algebras of log abelian varieties. In particular, we prove the dual short exact sequence for isogenies, Poincaré complete reducibility theorem for log abelian varieties, and the semisimplicity of the endomorphism algebras of log abelian varieti...

Antibiotic treatment of Staphylococcus aureus infections is often problematic due to the slow response to therapy and the high frequency of infection recurrence. The intracellular persistence of staphylococci has been recognized and could offer a good explanation for these treatment difficulties. Knowledge of the interplay between intracellular antibiotic activity and the overall outcome of inf...