A greenhouse gas and carbon accounting profile was developed for the U.S. forest products industry value chain for 1990 and 2004-2005 by examining net atmospheric fluxes of CO(2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) using a variety of methods and data sources. Major GHG emission sources include direct and indirect (from purchased electricity generation) emissions from manufacturing and methane emi...

BACKGROUND Flaxseed (Linum usitatissimum L.) is an important source of phenolic compounds, mainly lignans. Antioxidant capacities of flaxseed extracts that contain the compounds have been reported earlier. However, there is a lack of accessible information about their activity against lipid oxidation in meat products. Therefore, the effect of ethanolic flaxseed extracts (EFEs) on lipid stabilit...

Control of respiration has largely been studied with growing and/or photosynthetic tissues or organs, but has rarely been examined in harvested and stored plant products. As nongrowing, heterotrophic organs that are reliant on respiration to provide all of their metabolic needs, harvested plant products differ dramatically in their metabolism and respiratory needs from growing and photosyntheti...

BACKGROUND Transfusion of red blood cells (RBCs) is associated with adverse outcome, but the causative factor is unknown. Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have pro-inflammatory properties. We hypothesized that EVs released from both fresh and stored RBC products can induce a host inflammatory response in a dose-dependent manner. METHODS Whole blood was incubated with supernatant from RBC units st...

Thirty samples of powdered infant milk formulas containing polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) have been stored at four different temperatures (20, 28, 40 and 55 °C) and periodically monitored for their malondialdehyde (MDA) content up to one year. MDA levels ranged between 250 and 350 ng/kg in sealed samples with a maximum of 566 ng/kg in samples stored at 28 °C for three weeks after opening o...

2. McSPRT This section summarizes the McSPRT algorithm for solving correlated selection problems. This section is brief. A more detailed discussion appears in [Gratch94]. McSPRT stands for “Multiple Comparison Sequential Probability Ratio Test.” A sequential procedure [Govindarjulu81] is one that draws data a little at a time until enough has been taken to make a statistical decision of some pr...

completed in 1950, was the first electronic computer with an internally stored program in the U.S. government. This paper describes how scanning and computer processing of images began at the National Bureau of Standards in 1956 and how the use of SEAC made possible experiments that led to the widespread use of image processing and many other computer innovations.

We provide a systematic reconstruction of Abramsky's category SProc of synchronous processes Abr93]: SProc is isomorphic to a span category on a category of traces. The signiicance of the work is twofold: It shows that the original presentation of SProc in mixed formulations is unnecessary | a simple categorical description exists. Furthermore, the techniques employed in the reconstruction sugg...

Ensuring safety and quality of food products is a primary need. Thus, there is a need of developing rapid and reliable techniques for quality assessment. This paper evaluates the potential of auto-fluorescence for analyzing quality of meat products. In this paper, the image acquisition and image analysis procedures are described. The auto fluorescence of meat was found to increase with the age ...