This study investigated the different performance levels of the workers in the Chittoor Sugar factory located at the Chittoor town of South India. It was also studied how the factors education and work experience influence the performance levels of the workers in the firm. Upon study it has been understood that the two variables under investigation have direct effect on the performance of the w...

Marination using various ingredients has been widely used to improve microbial safety and quality of chicken products at retail markets. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of commercial marinade seasoning and cultured sugar/vinegar blend on Campylobacter jejuni and Salmonella Typhimurium populations during refrigerated storage. In addition, their effects on the texture o...

Thirty-six Merino lambs (8 to 9 wk of age, and 15.3 ± 0.13 kg of initial BW) 1 were used to evaluate the effects of the inclusion of 120 g sugar beet pulp (replacing 2 barley) and of the addition of 20 g sodium bicarbonate per kg concentrate on feed 3 intake, digestibility, animal performance and carcass characteristics in fattening lambs. 4 Animals were housed individually and fed barley straw...

Dental caries is a chronic disease with low mortality. It is, though, a very common disease, responsible for much suffering, and is one of the most expensive diseases to treat. Within the EU, the cost of dental treatment, most related to dental caries, in 2011 was estimated to be 79 billion euro (1). Dental caries affects all ages; both primary and permanent dentitions. In many European countri...

Sugar cane extract (SCE), the residue after removing glucose, fructose, and sucrose from sugar cane juice, has growth-promoting, antistress, and immunostimulation effects. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of refeeding dietary SCE on recovery of BW and intestinal histology after withdrawing feed from chickens. Forty-eight male Sanuki Cochin chickens were assigned random...

Emphasis over the past year has been on editorial effort to bring Chapter 44, Sugar and Sugar Products of the Official Methods of Analysis of AOAC INTERNATIONAL (OMA) to the high standards set for the 17th Edition of the compendium. In addition, 2 method studies were reported and subjected to peer review, respectively, dealing with detection of adulteration of maple syrup by beet or cane sugar ...

analogues is true as exemplified by the studies focused upon the use of sugar conjugation: glycosylated compounds can greatly enhance drug solubility (upto >2 folds) and enhance uptake in vitro [7]. As the motive in various modifications of flavonoids is to increase the stability and biological activity, and most of the glycosylated products showed only the increase in solubility and lack of pr...

Sugar is an important commodity in the African context, and there are numerous challenges and opportunities that exist in Africa for that industry. Africa is quite a big place and it encompasses a large number of different countries, cultures, weather patterns and soil variety. I will restrict my presentation to the area which is know as the Southern African Development Community (SADC), which ...

Fiji’s agricultural sector, and within it, the sugar industry, has been the driving force behind the country’s development. The sugar industry, however, is facing a number of challenges of which production efficiency is one of them. This paper examines farm productivity, efficiency and profitability in the industry. It suggests that without improving farm level efficiency and productivity the i...