In light of increasing consumer demand for optimal fresh fruit quality, experience attributes are crucial to ensure repeated purchases and price premiums. Challenges in offering consistent quality throughout the marketing year make ‘Anjou’ pears an interesting case in which to analyze the effects of experience quality attributes on willingness to pay. We analyzed data from choice experiments co...

Fruit is the part of a flowering plant that contains the plant’s seeds. Fruits include acorns, cucumbers, tomatoes, and wheat grains. However, the word ‘fruit’ is commonly used to refer to the juicy, sweet or tart kinds that people enjoy as desserts or snacks. The word comes from the Latin word ‘fruit’, meaning ‘enjoy’. Popular fruits include apples, bananas, grapes, oranges, peaches, pears, an...

In developing countries the cost of treating disease is much more than prevention and so there is now a lot of interest in understanding nutrition. In this pilot study we selected a cohort of pre-clinical students studying at the College of Health Sciences in the University of Zimbabwe. This study was carried to investigate the gender-based weekly consumption of different food categories amongs...

In 2008, a 26-year old man had personalized external aortic root support (PEARS) with a macroporous mesh. He was the 16th of 46 patients to have this operation. He had a typical Marfan habitus. His mother died of this disease as did his brother, with an aortic dissection. The patient himself died suddenly 4.5 years after his PEARS operation. At autopsy, there was no blood in the pericardium. Th...

In 2008, a 26-year old man had personalized external aortic root support (PEARS) with a macroporous mesh. He was the 16th of 46 patients to have this operation. He had a typical Marfan habitus. His mother died of this disease as did his brother, with an aortic dissection. The patient himself died suddenly 4.5 years after his PEARS operation. At autopsy, there was no blood in the pericardium. Th...

1 Neil Audsley 2 Jim Austin 3 Iain Bate 4 Ian Benest 5 Adrian Bors 6 Sam Braunstein 7 Alan Burns 8 Ana Cavalcanti 9 James Cussens 10 Alistair Edwards 11 Edwin Hancock 12 Dimitar Kazakov 13 Gerald Luettgen 14 John McDermid 15 Simon O'Keefe 16 Richard Paige 17 Nick Pears 18 Detlef Plump 19 Fiona Polack 20 Colin Runciman 21 Susan Stepney 22 John Timmis 23 Andy Wellings 24 Richard Wilson 25 Jim Woo...

To provide fruit throughout the whole year, maintain quality and reduce spoilage, apples pears are stored at low temperature. However, development of rots, caused mainly by Penicillium expansum, cannot be avoided. prevent losses, biological control has been proposed as a potential alternative. In this work, 16 psychrotrophic, non-pectinolytic Debaryomyces hansenii strains were evaluated in bioa...