Domestic and international food safety policy developments have spurred interest in the design and interpretation of experimental growth challenge studies to determine whether ready-to-eat (RTE) foods are able to support growth of Listeria monocytogenes. Existing challenge study protocols and those under development differ markedly in terms of experimental design and the acceptance criteria und...

We give upper bounds for $L^p$ norms of eigenfunctions the Laplacian on compact hyperbolic surfaces in terms a parameter depending growth rate number short geodesic loops passing through point. When genus $g \to +\infty$, we show that random $X$ with respect to Weil-Petersson volume have high probability at most one such loop length less than $c \log g$ small enough > 0$. This allows us deduce ...

A new dynamic Interpolation Search (IS) data structure is presented that achieves O(log log n) search time with high probability on unknown continuous or even discrete input distributions with measurable probability of key collisions, including power law and Binomial distributions. No such previous result holds for IS when the probability of key collisions is measurable. Moreover, our data stru...

in order to transfer rhizomania resistance genes to improved sugar beet lines, crosses were made between 11 commercial resistant varieties and two improved inbred o-type lines of sugar beet (231 and 261) at agricultural research center of khorasan razavi   and jam sugar factory in 2007. o-types carried self fertile (sf) genes and contained male sterile (ms) genotypes. commercial varieties were ...

We study the parametric distribution of log-growth rates CO2 and per capita emissions for 207 countries territories taking data from 1994 to 2010. define different duration periods, one year apart fifteen years apart. The considered probability distributions have been following: normal (N), asymmetric double Laplace (adLN), exponential tails (ETN) a mixture two (2N) or three (3N) distributions....

Percentage is widely used to describe different results in food microbiology, e.g., probability of microbial growth, percent inactivated, and percent of positive samples. Four sets of percentage data, percent-growth-positive, germination extent, probability for one cell to grow, and maximum fraction of positive tubes, were obtained from our own experiments and the literature. These data were mo...