We evaluated the microbial contamination of 17 types of vegetable and 10 types of fruit after 30-s washing with tap water with and without subsequent disinfection by 10-min immersion in 0.01% (100 ppm) sodium hypochlorite. The mean microbial contamination level of 9 types of leafy vegetable was 2.8 x 10(5) colony-forming units (CFU)/g after washing with water and 3.4 x 10(4) CFU/g after washing...

The laccate (shiny or varnished) Ganoderma contain fungi that are important wood decay fungi of living trees and decomposers of woody debris. They are also an important group of fungi for their degradative enzymes and bioprocessing potential. Laboratory decay microcosms (LDMs) were used to study the relative decay ability of G anoderma curtisii, Ganoderma meredithiae, Ganoderma sessile, and G a...

Protoplast wet densities (1.315 to 1.400 g/ml), determined by buoyant density sedimentation in Metrizamide gradients, were correlated inversely with the protoplast water contents (26.4 to 55.0 g of water/100 g of wet protoplast) of nine diverse types of pure lysozyme-sensitive dormant bacterial spores. The correlation equation provided a precise method for obtaining the protoplast water content...

To investigate the association between polymorphisms (SNP) in the p53 and murine double minute 2 homolog (MDM2) promoter 309 in cervical carcinogenesis. SNP at p53 codon 72 polymorphisms and MDM2 promoter 309 (T/G) together with human papillomavirus (HPV) types were examined in a total of 187 cervical smear samples using real time PCR. 27 cases with HPV types 16 and/or 18 had significantly high...

Various types of φA-spaces (X,D; {φA}A∈〈D〉) are simply G-convex spaces. Various types of generalized KKM maps on φA-spaces are simply KKM maps on G-convex spaces. Therefore, our G-convex space theory can be applied to various types of φAspaces. As such examples, we obtain KKM type theorems and a very general fixed point theorem on φA-spaces. RESUMEN Varios tipos de φA-espacios (X,D; {φA}A∈〈D〉) ...

G-protein-coupled receptors have become a target in utilizing bioinformatics and genomics technology to facilitate drug discovery for psychiatric diseases. In this study the covariant-discriminant algorithm [Chou and Elrod (1999) Protein Eng., 12, 107-118] has been used to analyze the correlation between the types of G-protein-coupled receptors and the amino acid composition. It has been found ...

Background and Aim: Inappropriate transfer of pressure during final impression making in fabrication of complete denture can result in ridge resorption. This study aimed to assess the effect of vent size and spacer thickness on pressure produced during maxillary edentulous impression making by different impression materials in vitro. Materials and Methods: This experimental study was carried...

We consider the class of constant depth AND/OR circuits augmented with a layer of modular counting gates at the bottom layer, i.e AC◦MODm circuits. We show that the following holds for several types of gates G: by adding a gate of type G at the output, it is possible to obtain an equivalent probabilistic depth 2 circuit of quasipolynomial size consisting of a gate of type G at the output and a ...

We propose a semantically grounded theory of session types which relies on intersection and union types. We argue that intersection and union types are natural candidates for modeling branching points in session types and we show that the resulting theory overcomes some important defects of related behavioral theories. In particular, intersections and unions provide a native solution to the pro...