Agroforestry is an environmentally friendly land resource management applied by farmers in various countries. The differences ethnicity, geography, biophysical environment, and socio-economic background influence the application of this agricultural model, known as indigenous agroforestry. However, information on ecosystem services agroforestry semi-arid ecosystems not widely known. This resear...

Three clinically healthy Labrador puppies developed ataxia, hypermetria and convulsions shortly after eating the burnt crust of maize porridge. Two of the puppies died. Acrylamide toxicity was considered based on the history of all 3 puppies developing nervous signs after being exposed to a starch-based foodstuff that was subjected to high temperature during preparation. Acrylamide-induced neur...

Obligate aerobes have respiratory metabolism with oxygen as the terminal electron acceptor. Therefore, they can produce ROS and oxidative damages in foodstuff which is contaminated. The egg yolks were incubated with different dilution of standard of E.coli and lipid peroxidation was assayed. The level of lipid peroxidation of high group (10 7 ) was 0.061±0.01 as compared with control; 0.016±0.0...

Abdominal pain is a common complaint at the family physician's office. Small-bowel obstruction is included in the differential diagnosis. Many patients with obstruction have a history of previous abdominal surgeries as the cause of obstruction, but mechanical obstruction is another common cause. Mechanical obstruction can be caused by an ingested foreign body or foodstuff. This case is the firs...

Estimation and Optimization of Potentiometric Sensor Response Parameters from Surfactant Titration Data Using Microsoft Excel Solver and Mathematica Milan Sak-Bosnar1 ∗, Dubravka Madunić-Čačić2, Nikola Sakač1, Mirela Samardžić1, and Želimir Kurtanjek3 1Department of Chemistry, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, F. Kuhaèa 20, HR-31000 Osijek, Croatia 2Saponia, Chemical, Pharmaceutical...

In this work the stability properties of a nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE) with state-dependent parameters is investigated. Among other things, the PDE describes freezing of foodstuff, and is closely related to the (Potential) Burgers’ Equation. We show that for certain forms of coefficient functions, the PDE converges to a stationary solution given by (fixed) boundary conditions ...

This paper presents LCAFDB, a crowdsourced database for collecting Life Cycle Assessment data for foodstuff. Such an open database is useful to facilitate the development of feedback systems about greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for food. We describe the design challenges encountered while we developed the system and our solutions. We also exemplify by a number of applications developed that use...

BACKGROUND Food fraud/adulteration has ever increasingly become a dominant food issue of the modern world in both developed and developing countries. It is presumed that globalisation is mainly one of the underlying reasons. OBJECTIVES To assess and analyse the occurrence of food fraud on the Polish market during 2005-2012. MATERIAL AND METHODS Adulteration of foodstuffs was determined from...