In this study, the effect of infrared (IR) on decontamination of Bacillus cereus in cardamom seeds were determined at difference IR radiation powers (100, 200, and 300 W), different sample distances from radiation source (5, 10 and 15 cm) and various holding times. The most successful reduction in B. cereus numbers (5.11 log CFU/g) was achieved after a holding time of 8 min at...

The Higgs-boson production in association with a W-boson pair at e+e− linear colliders is one of the important processes in probing the coupling between Higgsboson and vector gauge bosons and discovering the signature of new physics. We describe the impact of the complete electroweak(EW) radiative corrections of O(αew) to this process in the standard model(SM) at the International Linear Collid...

We demonstrate the suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering (SBS) in high power fiber amplifiers by a dual-single-frequency amplification. The output power of dualsingle-frequency fiber amplifiers in all-fiber configuration is boosted to 275 W with seeds central wavelength of 1063.7 and 1064.4 nm, respectively. The power conversion efficiency is 76.6%. The maximum output power is limited ...

HELEN E. FOX,∗‡‡ CAROLINE CHRISTIAN,† J. CULLY NORDBY,‡ OLIVER R. W. PERGAMS,§ GARRY D. PETERSON,∗∗ AND CHRISTOPHER R. PYKE†† ∗Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, PO Box 1346, Kaneohe, HI 96744, U.S.A. †Department of Environmental Studies and Planning, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA 94928, U.S.A. ‡Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Institute of the Environment, Univer...

Present limits on the top mass from LEP1 and Tevatron point to a top quark that is considerably heavier than the W vector boson in the standard model. Hence, ee colliders with √ s ≃ 300 GeV (the c.m. energy foreseen at the first phase of the Next Linear ee Collider) could be well below the energy threshold for real top-pair production. We argue that, if this is the case, single top production t...

Using first principles calculations, we predict the thermal conductivity of the two-dimensional materials black phosphorene and blue phosphorene. Black phosphorene has an unprecedented thermal conductivity anisotropy ratio of three, with predicted values of 110 W/m-K and 36 W/m-K along its armchair and zigzag directions at a temperature of 300 K. For blue phosphorene, which is isotropic with a ...

Growth behavior of five lactic acid bacteria previously isolated from Persian sturgeon (Acipenser persicus), were evaluated at different pH, temperature and salt concentrations. Also, antibacterial activity of extracellular products (ECPs) of this LAB were assessed to Aeromonas hydrophila . Further, their antibiotic susceptibility was determined with some commonly used antibiotics in aquacultur...