A diploid and a haploid strain of Pichia anomala were tested for their biocontrol ability against the spoilage mould Penicillium roqueforti in glass tubes filled with grain at two water activities (aw). At aw 0.98, the two yeast strains grew and inhibited mould growth equally well and showed similar patterns of ethyl acetate production, reaching maximum values of 10-14 microg ml(-1) headspace. ...

Low-temperature scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy have been employed to analyze the local electronic structure of the (111) surface of a ceria thin film grown on Ru(0001). On pristine, defect-free oxide terraces, the empty 4f states of Ce(4+) ions appear as the only spectral feature inside the 6 eV oxide band gap. In contrast, occupied states are detected between -1.0 and -1.5 eV b...

Iron hollow sphere filled aluminum matrix syntactic foams (AMSFs) were produced by low pressure, inert gas assisted infiltration. The microstructure of the produced AMSFs was investigated by light and electron microscopy, extended by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and electron back-scattered diffraction. The investigations revealed almost perfect infiltration and a slight gradient in the ...

Using clues from event semantics to solve coreference, we present an “event template” approach to cross-document event coreference resolution on news articles. The approach uses a pairwise model, in which event information is compared along five semantically motivated slots of an event template. The templates, filled in on the sentence level for every event mention from the data set, are used f...

The bodies of three brothers named Boodhoo, Nuthoo, and Bhondoo, were brought in for examination on July 22nd, 187-1, haying met their deaths under the following circumstances:? On the previous day a bunniah of Deobund (20 miles distant from the sudder station) opened a hatec or grain pit at 10 a.m. for the purpose of having it filled with gram. Two months before it had been filled to within 9 ...

A microscopy-based screen of a large collection of maize Mutator (Mu) transposon lines identified the supernumerary aleurone layers 1-1 (sal1-1) mutant line carrying up to seven layers of aleurone cells in defective kernel endosperm compared with only a single layer in wild-type grains. Normal, well filled endosperm that is homozygous for the sal1-1 mutant allele contains two to three layers of...

Energy dissipation on collisions of grain aggregates is investigated taking into account effects by sintering. It is shown that sintering significantly reduces the energy dissipation efficiency because contacts between adjacent grains become strong by sintering.

Cold-induced sweetening (CIS) is the accumulation of reducing sugars in potato tubers at low storage temperatures. It is undesirable because it results in dark fry products. Our study evaluated the relationship between genetic resistance to CIS and two starch parameters, amylose content and starch granule size. We found that the amylose content in four CIS-resistant varieties was higher than th...

During Kharif 2022, a field experiment was done on sandy loamy soil at Crop Research Farm, Naini Agriculture Institute, Department of Agronomy, Sam Higginbottom University Agriculture, Technology and Sciences, Prayagraj. The designed in Randomised Block Design replicated three times, using ten hybrids, R-205, R-210, R-212, R-218, R-242, R-248, R-256, R-300, R-305, R-311. Results indicates that ...

ABSTRACT. A new technique for the measurement of dielectric constant of materials, using a partially filled waveguide cell and a new mixture equation, has been developed which is first tested for teflon and then used to measure the dielectric constant of rice and air mixture in the frequency range of 2.6GHz to 3.9GHz. The values of dielectric constant of rice grain obtained using the mixture mo...