The objective of this study was to develop a model to predict the growth of C. perfringens from spores at temperatures applicable to the cooling of cooked cured meat products. C. perfringens growth from spores was not observed at a temperature of Ž . 12 C for up to 3 weeks. The two parameters: germination, outgrowth, and lag GOL time and exponential growth rate, EGR, were determined using a fun...

events were considered, reflecting the year 2015. All outcomes were discounted at 3.5% annually. Results: Regarding the AS subpopulation, the total treatment cost for IFX, ADA, CZP, ETA, GOL and CC was: € 67,736, € 38,914, € 38,721, € 38,290, € 35,338 and € 4,110; and the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) were: 10.031, 9.882, 9.949, 9.933, 9.903 and 9.360, respectively. CZP dominated ADA and ...

Mitochondrial hypervariable region I genetic data from ancient populations at two sites in Asia-Linzi in Shandong (northern China) and Egyin Gol in Mongolia-were reanalyzed to detect population affinities. Data from 51 modern populations were used to generate distance measures (Fst's) to the two ancient populations. The tests first analyzed relationships at the regional level and then compiled ...

Centro de Salud La Marina, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain IDIAP Jordi Gol, Institut Català de la Salut, Barcelona, Spain Centro de Salud Riu Nord-Riu Sud, Institut Català de la Salut, Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona, Spain Departament de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain Unitat de Recerca Metropolitana Nord, Institut Català de la Salut, Mataró, Bar...

Pollinators such as bees provide a critical ecosystem service that can be impaired by information about predation. We provide the first evidence for olfactory eavesdropping and avoidance of heterospecific alarm signals, alarm pheromones, at food sources in bees. We predicted that foragers could eavesdrop upon heterospecific alarm pheromones, and would detect and avoid conspicuous individual phe...

Glucitol (Gol) is a major photosynthetic product in plants from the Rosaceae family. Herein we report the molecular cloning, heterologous expression and characterization of Gol dehydrogenase (GolDHase, EC 1.1.1.14) from peach (Prunus persica) fruits. The recombinant enzyme showed kinetic parameters similar to those reported for orthologous enzymes purified from apple and pear fruits. The activi...

For decades, the concept of roles has frequently been discussed in the literature of various fields of computer science, such as conceptual modelling and knowledge representation, but an integrative definition of the concept has not yet been accomplished. On the basis of an extensive literature review, a general approach to roles is elaborated, which includes a system of classification. The mot...

Every domain-speci c ontology must use as a framework some upper-level ontology which describes the most general, domain-independent categories of reality. In the present paper we sketch a new type of upper-level ontology, which is intended to be the basis of a knowledge modelling language GOL (for: `General Ontological Language'). It turns out that the upperlevel ontology underlying standard m...