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Effect of Fish Hydrolysate and Sodium Chloride on the Colour of Quinoa Flour Fermented by Monascus purpureus

Monascus purpureus is a red pigment-producing fungus. In the present study, the effect of fish hydrolysate and sodium chloride on the colour of quinoa flour fermented with M. purpureus was analysed. The colour of each sample was evaluated in CIELAB space (L*, a*, b*), in addition to the C:N ratio. The minimum fermentation time was eight days and th...

Aggregation of Thermoresponsive Polymethacrylates in a Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium and Its Salts

The thermal behavior and aggregation process of the poly(N-isopropyl acrylamide), poly[oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate], and poly[(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-co-oligo(ethylene glycol) methyl ether methacrylate] thermoresponsive polymers were studied in a commonly used Dulbecco’s Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM) cell culture medium an...

Novel Approaches to Improve Meat Products’ Healthy Characteristics: A Review on Lipids, Salts, and Nitrites

Meat products are a staple of many diets around the world, but they have been subject to criticism due to their potential negative impact on human health. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in developing novel approaches to improve the healthy characteristics of meat products, with a particular focus on reducing the levels of harmfu...

Multicomponent Crystals of Phthalocyanines–A Possibility of Fine-Tuning Properties

Phthalocyanines (Pcs) are 18-electron π-conjugated macrocyclic ring systems with proven activities in diverse fields, including pharmaceuticals and catalysis. These demonstrated activities are often alluded to as their fascinating photophysical and photochemical dispositions, which are usually dependent on their molecular structures. However, many ...

Characterization of Soluble Salts on the Frescoes by Saturnino Gatti in the Church of San Panfilo in Villagrande di Torn...

Salt crystallization is one of the most dangerous forms of degradation affecting frescoes. This phenomenon can lead to cracking, flaking and detachment of the pictorial layer, ultimately ruining the work of art. However, the characterization of soluble salts via chemical analysis can be employed to determine the conditions of the artifact and estab...

Geotechnical aspects of alluvial soils at different depths under sodium chloride action in Najran region, Saudi Arabia: ...

Published in Frontiers in Environmental Science

The current research study is aimed at studying the impact of sodium chloride on the performance of semi-arid soils in the Najran area of Saudi Arabia. Experimental work has been undertaken to investigate how adding salt to the semi-arid soil collected in the Najran area affects the boundaries of Atterberg, compaction characteristics, California be...

Anaerobic Co-Digestion of Sewage Sludge and Trade Wastes: Beneficial and Inhibitory Effects of Individual Constituents

Anaerobic digestion (AD) of sewage sludge can be optimised by adding trade wastes (TWs) because of their nutrient content and boost in biogas formation if non-inhibitory. However, some components in TWs might have an inhibitory impact, such as nitrogen compounds, sulphate, heavy metals, metalloids, halogens and organic pollutants (e.g., phenol). Th...

Conductivity in Thin Films of Transition Metal Coordination Complexes

Two coordination complexes have been made by combining the dithiolene complexes [M(mnt)(2)](2-) (mnt = maleonitriledithiolate; M = Ni2+ or Cu2+) as anion, with the copper(II) coordination complex [Cu(Stetra)] (Stetra = 6,6 ' - bis(4,5-dihydrothiazol-2-yl)-2,2 ' -bipyri-dine) as cation. The variation of the metal centers leads to a dramatic change i...

Copper Recovery from Aqueous Solutions by Hemp Shives: Adsorption Studies and Modeling

This article describes the performance of hemp shives, a co-product of the hemp industry, when used as an adsorbent to recover copper present in aqueous solutions by a batch method. Two materials provided by an industrial partner, namely water-washed hemp shives (SHI-W) and Na2CO3-activated shives (SHI-C), were studied. Two important variables in t...