Several hepatitis A virus (HAV) and human norovirus (HuNoV) outbreaks due to consumption of contaminated berries and vegetables have recently been reported. Model experiments were performed to determine the effectiveness of freeze-drying, freeze-drying combined with heating, and steam blanching for inactivation of enteric viruses that might be present on the surface of berries and herbs. Inacti...

We consider Type IIB orientifold models on Calabi-Yau spaces with three-form G-flux turned on. These fluxes freeze some of the complex structure moduli and the complex dilaton via an F-term scalar potential. By introducing pairs of D9-D9 branes with abelian magnetic fluxes it is possible to freeze also some of the Kähler moduli via a D-term potential. Moreover, such magnetic fluxes in general l...

AIM To assess the reliability of local international normalised ratios (INR) using a set of three international reference preparation (IRP) certified freeze dried plasmas. METHODS 55 centres in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland participated; 36 centres employed coagulometers and 19 a manual prothrombin time technique, all with the same batch of routine commercial thromboplastin. ...

Тhe aim of the study was identification and determination of the content of flavonoids in dry extracts of Teucrium polium, collected from Republic of Macedonia. Two different drying procedures were used, freeze and spray draying. In freeze-dried (FDE) and spray-dried (SDE) extracts of aerial parts of T. polium five flavone aglycones (luteolin, apigenin, cirsiliol, cirsimaritin and cirsilineol) ...

Abstract Detecting dark matter (DM) relic via freeze-in is difficult in laboratories due to smallness of the couplings involved. However, a non-standard cosmological history Universe, prior Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN), can dramatically change this scenario. In context, we study production classically scale invariant U(1) X gauge extension Standard Model (SM), recently dubbed as Scale Invaria...

Three hundred feedlot steers (320 +/- 2 kg) were assigned to freeze brand, hot-iron brand, and sham branding treatments according to a randomized branding arrangement. Behaviors believed to be indicative of pain (i.e., tail-flicking, kicking, falling, and vocalizing) were recorded during branding. Escape behavior, measured as the amount and duration of force exerted on the headgate and squeeze ...

A 10 year old experiment related to freeze/2 and its implementation in B-Prolog and SICStus Prolog is redone. B-Prolog uses the TOAM abstract machine and its implementation of delayed goals is by means of suspension frames on the execution stack. The traditional WAM approach partly established by SICStus Prolog implementors is to put suspension terms on the heap. Earlier experiments comparing t...

R. P. Goodrich and co-workers, 1989 have reported that red blood cells (RBCs) can be preserved in the dry state by addition of mixtures of hydroxyethyl starch (HES) and glucose (59,60). In this thesis work we tried to investigate the effect of HES alone on the viability, functionality and oxidative state of red blood cells after freeze thaw stress. Here we prepared eight formulations having var...

in order to investigate the flexural behaviors of rc beams after freeze-thaw cycles, compressive strength test of concrete cubes after 0, 50, 100, 125 freeze-thaw cycles were made, and static flexural experiment of 48 rc beams after 0, 50, 100, 125 freeze-thaw cycles were made. the relationships of relative compressive strength, mass loss rate, relative dynamic elastic modulus and numbers of fr...