During combine harvesting of 5 various cereal crops (rye, barley, oats, buckwheat, corn) 24 samples of grain and 24 samples of settled grain dust were collected on farms located in the Lublin province of eastern Poland. The samples were examined for the concentration of total microfungi, Fusarium species, deoxynivalenol (DON), nivalenol (NIV), and ochratoxin A (OTA). Microfungi able to grow on ...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES Satisfactory composite restoration depends upon its smooth finish, quality of polishing agents, type of composite material used, and its composition. The present study evaluated the effect of different polishing systems on the surface roughness of composite resin. MATERIALS AND METHODS Forty discs of composite were prepared and equally subjected to different finishing and ...

In the present study, orthosulfamuron residues were extracted from fatty (unpolished) rice and rice straw using a modified QuEChERS method and analyzed using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry. The matrix-matched calibration was linear over the concentration ranges of 0.01-2.0 mg/kg with determination coefficient (R (2)) ⩾ 0.997. The recovery rates at two fortification levels (0.1 a...

Abstract Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH), as a high-energy liquid propellant, is widely used in aerospace, rocket, aircraft, and other fields. However, it also has certain toxicity, fire, explosion risks, which will cause harm to the human liver, kidney, central nervous system, blood etc., especially system. UDMH easy be adsorbed on surface of body or substances, but there lack research ...

to study the effects of different amounts of sulphur and boron fertilizers on grain yield and grain quality of bread wheat cultivar pishtaz, an experiment was conduncted in karaj during two cropping seasons 2001-2003. three levels of sulphur (s0= 0, s1=250 and s2= 500 kgha-1) and three levels of boron (b0= 0, b1= 20 and b2= 40 kgha-1) were different treatments of the experiment arranged in rcbd...

Four principal factors contribute to grain-boundary strengthening: (a) the grain boundaries act as barriers to plastic flow; (b) the grain boundaries act as dislocation sources; (c) elastic anisotropy causes additional stresses in grain-boundary surroundings; (d) multislip is activated in the grain-boundary regions, whereas grain interiors are initially dominated by single slip, if properly ori...

Consumption of whole-grain and sourdough breads is associated with improved glucose homeostasis. We examined the impact of commercial breads on biomarkers of glucose homeostasis in subjects at risk for glucose intolerance. In a randomized, crossover study, overweight or obese males ingested 11-grain, sprouted-grain, 12-grain, sourdough, or white bread on different occasions, matched for availab...

Grain shape is a key factor that influences both the appearance quality and grain yield of rice. To clarify the genetic basis of grain shape, an advanced backcross population was developed from the cross of a slender indica variety Jin23B and a round japonica variety QingGuAi, and a total of 10 quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for grain shape were detected over 2 years. Three QTLs, qGW1, qGS3 and...

This work has two primary goals. The first is to advance our fundamental understanding of grain boundaries by making direct measurements of grain boundary thermodynamic properties using ultrafine-grained materials. The second is to explore possible deviations from conventional behavior at ultrafine grain sizes, specifically in regards to grain boundary thermodynamic properties and solute segreg...

The determination method of total arsenic (As) and the speciation method of inorganic As for non-glutinous rice reported in our preceding paper were applied to several varieties of rice under optimized experimental conditions. In the determination of total As with ICP-MS, acetic acid was added to increase the sensitivity and an internal reference method with germanium was adopted to increase th...