The behaviour of some immunologic parameters was studied in order to explain the presence or the lack of symptomatology in subjects with IgE specific to foods. In particular, we compared the levels of serum and salivary IgA and IgE antibody specific to apple in 33 patients allergic to birch and with anti-apple IgE, of whom 24 had oral allergy syndrome after eating apple and nine were apple tole...

A 43-year-old woman presented with erythematous papules and plaques on the forehead evolving in the previous 3 months (Fig. 1). Diascopy, by showing a yellowish nodule-like aspect (Fig. 2), raised the hypothesis of cutaneous sarcoidosis, which was confirmed by histopathological examination. Sarcoidosis is a multisystemic granulomatous disease, a histologically evident characteristic shared by i...

The effects of apple pomace diets on rumen microbial population, movement of ingesta from the rumen, and water intake were studied in two trials with beef steers. Trial 1 was a 5 • 5 Latin square in which five ruminal fistulated steers were fed either corn silage plus cottonseed meal (CSM), apple pomace plus CSM, apple pomace plus urea, apple pomace plus urea and starch, or apple pomace plus ur...

Autonomous operation and information processing in an orchard environment requires an accurate inventory of the trees. Individual trees must be identified and catalogued in order to represent their distinct measures such as yield count, crop health and canopy volume. Hand labelling individual trees is a labour-intensive and time-consuming process. This paper presents a trunk localisation pipeli...

Both the origin of domesticated apple and the overall phylogeny of the genus Malus are still not completely resolved. Having this as a target, we built a 134,553-position-long alignment including two previously published chloroplast DNAs (cpDNAs) and 45 de novo sequenced, fully colinear chloroplast genomes from cultivated apple varieties and wild apple species. The data produced are free from c...

In 1992 neurophysiologists [20] found a new type of cells in areas V1 and V2 of the monkey primary visual cortex, which they called grating cells. These cells respond vigorously to a grating pattern of appropriate orientation and periodicity. Three years later a computational model inspired by these findings was published [9]. The study of this paper is to create a grating cell operator that ha...

Malic enzyme was isolated and purified from mature apple fruits (Malus sylvestris, Miller) by utilizing procedures probably applicable to other soluble enzymes in this and similar tissues.The physical properties of apple fruit malic enzyme are similar to those reported for malic enzyme from other plant and animal sources. It is specific for l-malate, TPN and requires a divalent cation for activ...

Software Product Lines (SPL) exploits reuse by identifying, modeling, and systemically reusing software features to develop different but related software systems. Successful reuse of a product line depends greatly on the modularity of the features that characterize the product line. Traditionally, features in SPL are grouped along the dimension of commonality and variability. However, this sin...

UNLABELLED Despite its importance to the host, the flower microbiome is poorly understood. We report a culture-independent, community-level assessment of apple flower microbial diversity and dynamics. We collected flowers from six apple trees at five time points, starting before flowers opened and ending at petal fall. We applied streptomycin to half of the trees when flowers opened. Assessment...