Practically all methods of curing pork involve the use of salt as a curing agent. Its main function is as a preservative to prevent or reduce the action of micro-organisms which might cause spoilage in the meat. Aside from this preserving action, the salt contributes greatly to the palatability of the meat. Oversalted pork is undesirable, although it is quite common. The amoimt of salt present ...

Whereas the majority of research on adolescent sexual initiation has focused solely on environmental factors, the present study used behavioral genetic analyses to investigate the relative contributions of genetic and environmental influences. Structural equation models were fitted to data from adoptive and non-adoptive sibling pairs (231 biologically related pairs and 169 unrelated pairs) from...

The extent to which computational modelling has influenced and been a part of decision-making in geography and urban planning has a long and distinguished history, as outlined by Geertman and Stillwell (2009) and Batty and Brail (2008) amongst others. With more recent advances in visualisation techniques and the ability of computers to manipulate, process and analyse increasingly complex and gr...

The author made the epidemiological studies for the explanation of the presence of various characteristics in the mortality from cerebral apoplexy in Japan. For the explication of the nation-wide regional difference in the mortality from cerebral apoplexy and in the blood pressure levels of the inhabitants, the author believes the quantity of salt intake is the most influential factor. In Japan...

The ability of nonacidified, refrigerated pickled cucumbers to produce the fresh cucumber flavor impact compounds (E,Z)-2,6-nonadienal and (E)-2-nonenal declined during storage. Production of these compounds decreased as the pH of refrigerated cucumbers was reduced. Despite the fact that the concentrations of (E,Z)-2,6-nonadienal and (E)-2-nonenal generated were over 10(5)-fold greater than the...

If pesticide residues are detected at over the uniform limit (0.01 ppm) in processed foods, the maximum residue limits of pesticides in each ingredient should be considered. For that purpose, analysis of pesticide residues in the ingredients would be required, but in many cases it is difficult to obtain ingredients from the same lot, or the processed foods may have been manufactured overseas. T...

The specific agglutination by incomplete anti D antibodies of a saline suspension of red cells, after preliminary incubation with a solution of crystalline trypsin, has been previously reported (Morton and Pickles, 1947). During the past two years this method has been standardized and used as a test for the detection of incomplete antibodies. The trypsin-treated cells have been found to give re...

Garcinia lanceifolia Roxb. is an important and endemic medicinal plant of Assam which has been used by various ethnic communities of Northeast India to treat various disorders like dysentery, dyspepsia, and biliousness. The plant is considered to be containing much medicinal value and is also eaten raw or made into pickles by the local people. Our present study has been focused on the evaluatio...

objectives : the present study was designed to investigate the possible relationship between job stress and mental health in a group of hospital employees of shiraz university of medical sciences. method: three hundred and ninety-seven employees (150 administrative and 247 medical staff) were selected randomly through stratified random sampling. they were requested to answer the general health ...