Purpose: Consumers increasingly make conscious choices when it comes to food and choose healthy products that protect the natural environment preserve traditional habits communities. This study investigates differences between perceived benefits willingness pay for making different marketing claims yet all suggesting producers’ dedication health of consumers as well resources. Methodology: Firs...

Enzymatic pretreatment of cellulose is generally considered to be a new area of research, but in fact it was a standard step in European preindustrial papermaking between 1300 and 1800. Specialized handmade papers are routinely prepared in our Center for use in the care and conservation of rare books and manuscripts. Our attempts to replicate some of the early papers have led us to an investiga...

Study objectives: To evaluate the histocompatibility of four different materials used to cover expandable metallic stents. Design: Prospective, randomized, unblinded study. Setting: Animal research laboratory of Kurume University. Patients or participants: Twenty 12to 18-kg mongrel dogs. Interventions: Handmade Gianturco-type stents with six bends, 20 mm in length, and 15 to 20 mm in diameter w...

There are two ways to generalize basic constructions of commutative algebra for a noncommutative case. More traditional way is to define commutative functions like trace or determinant over noncommuting variables. Beginning with [6] this approach was widely used by different authors, see for example [5], [15], [14], [12], [11], [7]. However, there is another possibility to work with purely nonc...

In this paper we define the notion of frame based formulas. We show that the well-known examples of formulas arising from a finite frame, such as the Jankov-de Jongh formulas, subframe formulas and cofinal subframe formulas, are all particular cases of the frame based formulas. We give a criterion for an intermediate logic to be axiomatizable by frame based formulas and use this criterion to ob...