The relationship between broiler breast meat color and pH, moisture content, water-holding capacity (WHC), and emulsification capacity (EC) was investigated. In each of three replicate trials, fillets were collected from three different commercial processing plants according to breast meat lightness (L*) values as follows: lighter than normal (light, L* > 53), normal (48 < L* < 53), and darker ...

Spatial data analysis, remote sensing and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were used to study the ground water quality in the A’Seeb area of the Sultanate of Oman. Groundwater samples were collected from 335 wells distributed in A’Seeb in the northwestern part of the capital Muscat, Oman. The aim of this study was to identify the source of the water quality pollution, and characterize its e...

Production of drug nanoparticles is an effective strategy to enhance solubility and oral absorption of water-insoluble drugs. The handling of drug nanoparticles has been an important issue in drug formulation because nanoparticles easily aggregate each other and redispersion of these particles is very difficult. In the present study, we developed a unique two-solution mixing type spray nozzle t...

Symbiotic N2 fixation in legume nodules declines under a wide range of environmental stresses. A high correlation between N2 fixation decline and sucrose synthase (SS; EC 2.4.1.13) activity down-regulation has been reported, although it has still to be elucidated whether a causal relationship between SS activity down-regulation and N2 fixation decline can be established. In order to study the l...

this study was carried out within 7 months in dikjeh area, golestan province, iran. during that time the relationship between water salinity and ec with hematocrite, blood serum ionic parameters, growth, survival and stress indices in common carp (cyprinus carpio) were investigated. hematocrite as stress index was measured by hemocitometry standard method using microhematocrite reader. fish bio...

electrochemically generated iron can remove most contaminants present in water and wast water, by precipitation, adsorption, electrostatic interaction, and complex formation (generally called electrocoagulation-ec). in the present paper, pretreatment of brackish water having high total hardness (th), alkalinity (a),  and cl¯ ions, is studied by application of a dc-electrical current ot the iron...

in this study, the pattern of changes in the values of soil electrical conductivity (ec) and soil temperature (t) under full irrigation treatment (fi) as compared with prd75 and prd55 treatments (partial root-zone drying which received 75 % and 55% water of fi at each irrigation event) was investigated in 1389 on a maize filed in sari university of agricultural sciences and natural resources. r...

Escherichia coli (EC) concentrations at two beaches impacted by river plume dynamics in southern Lake Michigan were analyzed using three-dimensional hydrodynamic and transport models. The relative importance of various physical and biological processes influencing the fate and transport of EC were examined via budget analysis and a first-order sensitivity analysis of model parameters. The along...

The aim of this study was to assess the influence of trout farm effluents on water quality parameters in the Dohezar Stream. In this study two trout farms and 7 stations were selected and physiochemical of water, including air and water temperatures, dissolved oxygen concentration (DO), pH, electrical conductivity (EC), water flow and biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) were measured every 30 days ...