Five different hays were used to determine the effect of 5 different soaking and steaming treatments on the water soluble carbohydrate and microbial (bacteria and mould) contents of UK hay. Hays were subjected to the following 5 treatments: 1. Dry; 2. Steamed for 50 minutes in the Haygain- 600 steamer; 3. Soaked in water at 16°C for 9 hours; 4. Steamed then soaked and 5. Soaked then steamed. Po...

Panning techniques, such as vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) are a widely-used practical approach for spatial sound reproduction using multiple loudspeakers. Although limited to a relatively small listening area, they are very efficient and offer good localisation accuracy, timbral quality as well as a graceful degradation of quality outside the sweet spot. The aim of this paper is to inves...

The objective of this study was to define the effects of various cooking and re-heating methods (pan roasting, steaming, oven grilling and micro-waving) on the cholesterol and formation of cholesterol oxidation products in beef loin during storage at 4°C. Raw samples showed lower total cholesterol content than cooked products sampled during storage for 6 d. The following cholesterol oxidation p...

Using high performance liquid chromatography with mass spectrometry the influence of conventional steaming and other heat treatments on the level of azaspiracids, okadaic acid and dinophysistoxin-2 in mussels (Mytilus edulis) was investigated. A prior study looking at the influence of steaming on the concentration and distribution of azaspiracids showed significant increases in concentration as...

Panning techniques, such as vector base amplitude panning (VBAP) are a widely-used practical approach for spatial sound reproduction using multiple loudspeakers. Although limited to a relatively small listening area, they are very efficient and offer good localisation accuracy, timbral quality as well as a graceful degradation of quality outside the sweet spot. The aim of this paper is to inves...

Because protein variants play critical roles in many diseases including TDP-43 in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), alpha-synuclein in Parkinson's disease and beta-amyloid and tau in Alzheimer's disease, it is critically important to develop morphology specific reagents that can selectively target these disease-specific protein variants to study the role of these variants in disease patholog...

BACKGROUND Phage Display technology is a well established technique for high throughput screening of affinity ligands. Here we describe a new compact chromato-panning procedure for selection of suitable binders from a phage peptide display library. RESULTS Both phages and E. coli cells pass non-hindered through the interconnected pores of macroporous gel, so called cryogel. After coupling a l...