Lycii Fructus was used as natural products with therapeutic properties for a long time. Betaine is a natural amino acid and one of the major constituents of Lycii Fructus. It is reported that this fruit plays a role in reducing blood levels of homocysteine, a toxic byproduct of the amino acid metabolism. This study was used to establish infra based on oriental medicine through the analysis of c...

C quality is important to fruit and vegetable growers, buyers, and handlers. °Brix readings indicate soluble solids content. Since soluble solids represent a product’s potential sweetness (an aspect of quality), °Brix readings can interest many throughout the value chain. Three steps are required to make effective use of °Brix readings: (1) obtain accurate representative values; (2) become fami...

Refractometry using a Brix refractometer has been proposed as a means to estimate IgG concentration in bovine maternal colostrum (MC). The refractometer has advantages over other methods of estimating IgG concentration in that the Brix refractometer is inexpensive, readily available, less fragile, and less sensitive to variation in colostral temperature, season of the year and other factors. Sa...

Knowledge of the molecular background of functional magnetic resonance (MR) images is required to fully exploit their potential in cancer management. We explored the prognostic impact of dynamic contrast-enhanced MR imaging (DCE-MRI) parameters in cervical cancer combined with global gene expression data to reveal their underlying molecular phenotype and construct a representative gene signatur...

An investigation was carried out to test the suitability of near infra-red reflectance (NIR) for rapidly estimating cane quality components. A large number of mixed cane juice samples of known pol, brix, sucrose, fructose, and glucose content were used to calibrate a Technicon Model 450 InfraAlyzer. Regression analyses indicated that brix, pol, and sucrose values obtained were closely correlate...

The objective of this work was to investigate the evaluation of swine colostrum immunoglobulin G (IgG) concentration using the Brix refractometer. Colostrum samples were collected across all teats, from 124 sows of mixed parities. According to sampling time, three categories were created: samples available from 9 h before the onset of parturition until the first piglet was born were classified ...

Brix and apparent purity are well known to be biased estimators of dry solids and true purity respectively, particularly on lower purity streams. Correlations which estimate dry solids from brix and apparent purity and estimate true purity also from brix and apparent purity are presented. The suitability of these correlations is evaluated in the light of available historical data.

BACKGROUND Transfer of passive immunity in calves can be assessed by direct measurement of immunoglobulin G (IgG) by methods such as radial immunodiffusion (RID) or turbidimetric immunoassay (TIA). IgG can also be measured indirectly by methods such as serum refractometry (REF) or Brix refractometry (BRIX). OBJECTIVES To determine the accuracy of REF and BRIX for assessment of inadequate tran...

This paper describes the design and evaluation of BRIX, an environment for developing online courses for second language learning. Commercial course management systems fail to meet the specific requirements of second language learning. For this reason, educators at the National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC) of the University of Hawaii have hand-crafted several online language learnin...

Osmotic dehydration kinetics of beetroot cubes in sucrose solution having different concentrations (30?Brix, 45?Brix and 60?Brix), solution temperature 35, 45 and 55 ?C, sample to solution ratio 1:4 were studied up to 240 min duration. For osmotic dehydration of beetroot in solution of sucrose the effect of all process parameter were significant at 5% level of significance on both water loss an...