Turkey osteomyelitis complex (TOC) is defined by the US Food Safety Inspection Service (FSIS) to include normal-appearing processed turkey carcasses that contain lesions including green discoloration of the liver, arthritis/synovitis, soft-tissue abscesses, and osteomyelitis of the proximal tibia. The lesions are associated with many different opportunistic organisms, mainly Staphylococcus aure...

Effluents from Baker's yeast production plant contain a high percentage of color and a large amount of organic load. In the present study, Baker's yeast wastewater (BYW) is treated with the electrocoagulation (EC) process using Al electrodes. Operating parameters (pH, current density, color intensity and operating time) are optimized by response surface methodology (RSM). Quadratic models are d...

The availability of a document’s logical structure in XML retrieval allows retrieval systems to return document portions (elements) instead of whole documents. This helps searchers focusing their attention to the relevant content within a document. However, other, e.g. sibling or parent, elements of retrieved elements may also be important as they provide context to the retrieved elements. The ...

Theory of constraints (TOC) is a management philosophy that seeks to increase throughput (efficiency or performance) of the system by identifying those processes that are constraining the system bottlenecks. There have been very few profound studies of TOC in health care systems. In order to fill this gap, this study was conducted to determine how healthcare systems are utilizing components of ...

Activity-based costing (ABC) and Theory of Constraints (TOC) are popular managerial tools for evaluating product mix decisions. A challenging aspect of the product mix problem involves evaluating joint products. These products involve complex interactions among resources and products and sequential decisions concerning producing joint products and their further processing. ABC and TOC assume th...

TVRDÁ EVA, TUŠIMOVÁ EVA, ZBYŇOVSKÁ KATARÍNA, JAMBOR TOMÁŠ, LUKÁČ NORBERT. 2016. Protective Effects of α-tocopherol on the Activity and Antioxidant Profile of Bovine Spermatozoa Subjected to Ferrous Ascorbate-Induced Oxidative Stress. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(4): 1245–1255. As spermatozoa are highly vulnerable to oxidative stress development, in ...

Sediment records from Swamp Lake (SL) in the central Sierra Nevada, California, provide evidence of climatic change on millennial and centennial timescales over the lastw20,000 years. Total organic carbon (TOC) abundancevaried in concertwith elemental and isotopic tracers of organicmatter (C/N, dCorg, d15N), biogenic silica content, total magnetic susceptibility, and sediment lithology. We inte...

About 0.3 g of freeze-dried and powdered sediment sample was decalcified using HCl. Subsequently Total Organic Carbon (TOC) and δ 13 Corg concentrations were measured using a Fisons Instruments CNS NA 1500 analyzer coupled to a Thermo Delta Plus isotope ratio spectrometer. Results were normalized to international standards. Average analytical uncertainty based on duplicate analyses of sediment ...

Data center operators face a bewildering set of choices when considering how to provision resources on machines with complex I/O subsystems. Modern I/O subsystems often have a rich mix of fast, high performing, but expensive SSDs sitting alongside with cheaper but relatively slower (for random accesses) traditional hard disk drives. The data center operators need to determine how to provision t...