Pistachio green kernel, is obtained by removing the red testa of around the whole kernel. In this study, the suitable peeling conditions for removing the testa of the kernel were determined using hot water in five termperature levels of 75, 80, 85, 90, and 95°C and diffetent hot water immersion times of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 minutes in riped and unripe samples. Quality factors including the number...

Legionella are widely distributed in natural and man-made environments. In these environments, legionella can utilize metabolic products excreted by blue-green algae and other general bacteria, on the other hand they can multiply intracellularly within amoebaebody. The major infection route of legionella is via 1-5 |Lim diameter aerosols which contain the legionella and reach humanalveolar sept...

In the standard construction of a first-order equilibrium phase transition via the Gibbs criteria from a quark-gluon plasma (QGP) to a hot and dense hadron gas (HG), the appearance of a discontinuity in the entropy per baryon ratio (s/n) makes the phase transition at fixed temperature T and fixed chemical potential μ irreversible. Recently several papers have been addressed to the question of c...

BACKGROUND Cooling of recently amputated digits is recommended to preserve tissue pending reimplantation. Although many methods are describe for cooling digits, it is unknown which method is optimal. METHODS Six methods were compared in which fresh chicken feet were wrapped in saline-soaked gauze, placed in a plastic bag or a specimen jar, and then placed in a fixed quantity of ice and water ...

This summer I had my first experience with something every homeowner dreads (and knows is coming eventually): a sudden puddle of water underneath the hot water heater. A local plumbing company quickly sent a technician out, who spared no time in pronouncing our current hot water heater dead. Then he explained that this company used flat-rate pricing: all jobs of a certain type cost the same fix...

Background We intend to study the inhibitory effect of sulfur compound in Ramsar hot spring mineral on tumor-genesis ability of high natural background radiation. Objective The radioprotective effect of sulfur compounds was previously shown on radiation-induced chromosomal aberration, micronuclei in mouse bone marrow cells and human peripheral lymphocyte. Ramsar is known for having the highes...

Vivien Kirk, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand Emily Lane, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, P O Box 8602, Christchurch, New Zealand Claire M. Postlethwaite, Department of Mathematics, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand Alastair M. Rucklidge, Department of Applied Mathematics, University ...

Cantaloupes are associated with recent outbreaks of foodborne illnesses and recalls. Therefore, new approaches are needed for sanitization of whole and cut fruit. In the present study, whole cantaloupes were submerged into water in the following 3 conditions: 10 degrees C water for 20 min (control), 20 ppm chlorine at 10 degrees C for 20 min, and 76 degrees C water for 3 min. Populations of mic...