Currently, there is a strong interest in barrel ageing of finished, conventionally fermented beers, as novel way to produce sour beers with rich and complex flavour profile. The production process, however, remains largely process trial error, often resulting profit losses inconsistency quality. To improve product quality consistency, better understanding the interactions between microorganisms...

A total of 24 German beer brands was analysed for the contents of microplastic fibres, fragments and granular material. In all cases contamination was found. Counts ranged from 2 to 79 fibres L(-1), from 12 to 109 fragments L(-1) and from 2 to 66 granules L(-1). The results show a high variability between individual samples and samples from different production dates. Possible sources of this c...

The preparation and properties of polyvinylpolypyrrolidone (PVPP) and silica gel and the mechanisms by which they stabilize beer are discussed. In stabilized beer, chill stability was associated with lower protein sensitivity to precipitation with tannins. Approximately 60% of the proteoses were of low molecular weight (<10,000 daltons). The most acidic of these proteoses were the least stable ...

Background: Previous studies have not demonstrated a consistent association between potentially inappropriate medicines (PIMs) in older patients as defined by Beers criteria and avoidable adverse drug events (ADEs). This study aimed to assess whether PIMs defined by new STOPP (Screening Tool of Older Persons’ potentially inappropriate Prescriptions) criteria are significantly associated with AD...

No:16087 Citation:J Clin Oncol 26: 2008 (May 20 suppl; abstr 16087) Author(s):R. S. DiPaola, M. N. Stein, S. Goodin, S. Eddy, E. H. Rubin, S. Doyle-Lindrud, D. Dvorzhinski, S.Beers, W. J. Shih, E. White

Tirandalydigin a structurally unique hybrid of the tirandamycin-streptolydigin families of tetramic acid antibiotics has been isolated from the fermentation beers of Streptomyces sp. AB-1006A-9. The structure of this anti-anaerobic antibiotic has been characterized based upon NMR, UV and mass spectrometric data.

This paper applies a novel Kriging model to the interpolation of stochastic simulation with high computational expense. The novel Kriging model is developed by using Taylor expansion to construct a drift function for Kriging, thus named Taylor Kriging. The interpolation capability of Taylor Kriging for stochastic simulation is empirically compared with those of Simple Kriging and Ordinary Krigi...