Aspergillus fumigatus spores in food may represent an infectious risk for neutropenic patients. We examined the efficiency of disinfection procedures applicable to foods for eradication of A fumigatus. Boiling and microwave treatment fully decontaminated an experimental spore suspension and naturally contaminated liquid foods (reconstituted dried food, herbal tea). Full decontamination of exper...

X-ray flares belong to magnetic activity phenomena that are characteristic for T-Tauri stars. The relatively strong magnetic fields of T-Tauri magnetospheres can be regarded as the primary energy source for the flares. The energy can be converted to particle acceleration and plasma heating by reconnection events in twisted flux tubes that connect the central object and the circumstellar disk. C...

2,7-Dichlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (DCDD) was found to evaporate easily with water vapor from a heated solution. Steam distillation was also effective for the removal of DCDD from DCDD-applied soil; its concentration (250 microg/50g soil) in the original soil decreased to less than 5% after steam distillation for only 20 min. Actual dioxin-polluted soil in Tokorozawa City was partially decontaminated...

Scaling laws for the transport and heating of trace heavy ions in low-frequency magnetized plasma turbulence are derived and compared with direct numerical simulations. The predicted dependences of turbulent fluxes and heating on ion charge and mass number are found to agree with numerical results for both stationary and differentially rotating plasmas. Heavy ion momentum transport is found to ...

BACKGROUND Cow's milk allergy is the most common childhood food allergy. Previously we noted that children who outgrew their milk allergy had milk-specific IgE antibodies primarily directed against conformational epitopes; those with persistent milk allergy also had IgE antibodies directed against specific sequential epitopes. OBJECTIVE Because high temperature largely destroys conformational...

A model describing the behaviour of the gravityand shear-driven liquid films on heated microstructured walls is developed. The hydrodynamic stability of the film flow is investigated using the long-wave theory. It is shown that the longitudinal grooves stabilize the film flow both when the wall is completely or only partially covered by the film. The influence of the thermocapillarity on the fi...

Abstract Partially stabilised zirconia has advantages for the applications in metallurgical processes which have special requirements corrosion resistance and high-temperature performance. In present work, controllable microwave heating was used uniform thermal field consequent microstructure improvement to further improve stability of partially zirconia, 88.14% prepared by electric arc melting...

Background: The adjuvanticity potential of Lactobacillus casei was first suggested in an old survey. The present study was designed to investigate the efficacy of a new immunotherapy against breast cancer made by mixing an extract of heated 4T1 mammary carcinoma cell line and a heat-killed preparation of Lactobacillus casei.Methods: Female BALB/c mice (6–8 weeks old, n=40) were challenged subcu...