During the Association of American Geographers meeting of 2014, we interviewed John Pickles to document his memories of J.B. Harley (1932–1991) and the time period of the early to mid-1990s when the subfield of GIS and Society took form, including the November 1993 meetings at Friday Harbor and the publication of the edited collection Ground Truth (Pickles 1995). What follows is a jointly edite...

to those tragic instances when a previously well infant, usually between two and four months, is found dead in its cot (cot death), or is brought dead or dying to hospital. The incidence of this approaches 2.5 per 1,000 births in areas of adequate assessment, and the practitioner may at any time have such a tragedy in his practice. From this book he will learn much of the theories, discarded or...

Mono-cultured or mixed-cultured fermentations have been preferred to spontaneous fermentation in pickle production. Therefore, five different groups of garlic pickles were produced adopting the Turkish-style using monocultures mixed-cultures containing four probiotic strains. The inhibitory effect on those strains, antagonistic activities, organic acid production abilities strains examined. che...

Listeria monocytogenes can survive and grow in refrigerated foods with pH values of approximately 4.0 to 5.0 and salt concentrations of 3 to 4%. Home-fermented refrigerator dill pickles fit this description. Contamination of this product with L. monocytogenes could cause serious problems because these items are not heated prior to consumption. L. monocytogenes survival and growth patterns were ...

Background: Anecdotal information has suggested that sodium benzoate is used with more than permissible doses during production steps of food products especially pickles and pickled cucumbers in food producing factories in Markazi province and other food producing factories . The present study was done to evaluate factual concentration of sodium benzoate in these products. Methods: In this ...

WILLIAM Pickles died over 20 years ago in 1969. Nevertheless it is not difficult to get a clear idea of the sort of man and doctor that Pickles was. His concern for his patients and his enthusiasm for research and learning shine through the pages of his writings, and his life has been sensitively portrayed for us by John Pemberton.I His achievements over the years were great particularly his co...