Spice plants are popularly used as ingredients in food products. Promoting healthy eating, paying attention to the quality of products, means that organic and self-produced ingredients, whose origin growing conditions known, gaining popularity. The study determined concentration mercury (Hg) popular leafy spice plants: peppermint (Mentha piperita), common basil (Ocimum basilicum), lovage (Levis...

In this paper, a closed form delay and power model of a CMOS inverter driving a resistive-inductive-capacitive load is presented. The model is derived from Sakurai’s alpha-power law and exhibits good accuracy. The model can be used for the design and analysis of the CMOS inverters that drive a large interconnect RLC load when considering both speed and power. Closed form expressions are also pr...

Spice is a smoking mixture containing synthetic cannabinoids with psychoactive effects similar to herbal cannabis. It is sold on the Internet and has become popular among young people. The purpose of the present study was to investigate experiences of intoxication induced by Spice, as described on a Swedish internet-based discussion forum. A systematic search yielded 40 reports, which were anal...

Organically produced spices and herbs were analyzed for determination of aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) by ELISA using immunoaffinity column. For this purpose 93 organic spices and 37 organic herbs were randomly selected from organic markets and organic shops in Turkey. AFB1 was detected in 58 organic spice and 32 organic herb samples. Among organic spice samples, the maximum value was detected in cinnamo...

In the paper four approaches of upgrading analog circuits analysis tools (SPICE was used) with optimisation loops are compared. In the first approach the optimisation algorithm is coded in Mathematica, which calls SPICE for every circuit analysis. In the second approach the algorithm is coded in Nutmeg. (Nutmeg is an interpreter designed as a user interface for SPICE, but it has all properties ...

A 550 kHz CMOS micromechanical bandpass filter, is designed using a parameterized cell library, "NODAS," for schematic representation and behavioral HDL simulation. The filter employs a unique resonator and coupling spring structure implemented in a CMOS-MEMS technology. As an alternative design method, an equivalent SPICE model is derived for the filter. Frequency response around the filter pa...