Hossein Karamitaheri,1 Mahdi Pourfath,2,3 Hans Kosina,3 and Neophytos Neophytou4,* 1Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Kashan, Kashan 87317-51167, Iran 2School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Tehran, Tehran 14395-515, Iran 3Institute for Microelectronics, Technical University of Vienna, Vienna, 1040, Austria 4School of Engineering, University of Warwick, C...

Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran Departments of Parasitology, School of Medicine, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, IR Iran Corresponding author: Mohsen Ghomashlooyan, Department of Parasitology and Mycology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, IR Iran. Tel: +98-935...

Digital image processing is an emerging tool to predict fruit quality; therefore present study was carried out to develop an image processing technique for investigating the storage life of cantaloupe. Potassium permanganate (KMnO4) impregnated materials were used to prolong the postharvest life of cantaloupe fruit and the effects of these treatments were evaluated by 3 image textural features ...

Trauma Research Center, Kashan University of Medical Sciences, Kashan, Iran, 1Occupational Sleep Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran, 2Department of Occupational Medicine, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran, 3Center for Research on Occupational Diseases, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Correspondence to: Dr. Amir Hos...

i * Corresponding Author, R. Ghasemi is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Damavand Islamic Azad University, Damavand, Iran (email: [email protected] ). ii S.K.Y. Nikravesh is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir University of Technology, Tehran, Iran (e-mail: [email protected]). iii M. B. Menhaj is with the Department of Electrical Engineering, Amirkabir Un...

The effects of a waiting period at room temperature ( approximately 22 degrees C) before refrigerating fresh-cut watermelon, cantaloupe and honeydew pieces contaminated with Salmonella on survival of the inoculated pathogen were investigated. Whole cantaloupes, honeydew melons and watermelons were washed with water, and fresh-cut pieces from individual melons were prepared and inoculated with a...

A resistance monitoring program conducted for the polyphagous whitefly, Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius), in Imperial Valley, CA, USA generated a large set of LC50s for adults collected from broccoli, cantaloupe and cotton crops over a four-year period. A vial bioassay and, subsequently, a yellow-sticky card bioassay produced similar temporal profiles of relative susceptibilities to the pyrethroid in...

Outbreaks of foodborne illness attributed to the consumption of Salmonella-tainted cantaloupe have occurred repeatedly, but understanding of the ecology of Salmonella on cantaloupe fruit surfaces is limited. We investigated the interactions between Salmonella enterica Poona, the plant pathogenic bacterium Erwinia tracheiphila, and cantaloupe fruit. Fruit surfaces were inoculated at the natural ...

The influences of processing and storage on the quality indices and nutritional content of fresh-cut fruits were evaluated in comparison to whole fruits stored for the same duration but prepared on the day of sampling. Fresh-cut pineapples, mangoes, cantaloupes, watermelons, strawberries, and kiwifruits and whole fruits were stored for up to 9 days in air at 5 degrees C. The postcutting life ba...