Penconazole is a widely used fungicide in the UK; however, to date, there have been no peer-reviewed publications reporting human metabolism, excretion or biological monitoring data. The objectives of this study were to i) develop a robust analytical method, ii) determine biomarker levels in volunteers exposed to penconazole, and, finally, to iii) measure the metabolites in samples collected as...

background: hydroxymethylfurfural (hmf) is a common maillard reaction product directly formed from dehydration of sugars under acidic conditions during heating and storage in carbohydrate rich foods. the aim of the present study was to detect and quantify the amount of hmf in date syrup by hplc method. in addition, the amount of hmf in date syrup produced by traditional and industrial methods w...

Let G be a finite group and k be a field of characteristic p. We investigate the homotopy category K(Inj kG) of the category C(Inj kG) of complexes of injective (= projective) kG-modules. If G is a p-group, this category is equivalent to the derived category Ddg(C(BG; k)) of the cochains on the classifying space; if G is not a p-group it has better properties than this derived category. The ord...

The effect of cultivar on sterol composition of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seed oil from three industrial cultivars (Principe Borghese, Rebelion F1 and San Marzano) grown in Calabria Region (Southern Italy) was investigated. Sterol composition is presented both as percentage on the total sterol content (%) and as an absolute value (mg/kg). Rebelion F1 produced the worst seed oil in terms ...

Robots are still outperforming humans regarding their efficiency and dexterity. On the other hand, however, muscles are more efficient and have a higher power to weight ratio than electric motors. As a consequence, among others, manipulators for human robot interaction in industry or service applications have a low payload to weight ratio and a low energy efficiency. Therefore, we developed a n...