QUALITY CHANGES OF DUCK MEAT DURING THERMAL STERILIZATION PROCESSING CAUSED BY MICROWAVE, STEPWISE RETORT, AND GENERAL RETORT HEATING

Quality changes of duck meat during thermal sterilization processing caused by microwave, stepwise retort, and general retort heating

The quality changes of duck meat during thermal sterilization using microwave, stepwise retort and general retort heating were evaluated.Results showed that compared with stepwise retort and general retort, duck meat subjected to microwave showed significantly higher gumminess, chewiness, cohesiveness and resilience as well as glutamic acid, lysine

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Interlimb Transfer of Grasp Orientation is Asymmetrical

One the most fundamental aspects of the human motor system is the hemispheric asymmetry seen in behavioral specialization.Hemispheric dominance can be inferred by a contralateral hand preference in grasping.Few studies have considered grasp orientation in the context of manual lateralization and none has looked at grasp orientation with natural pre

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Metabolic syndrome in chronic hepatitis C infection: does it still matter in the era of directly acting antiviral therapy?

TR Lim Centre for Liver Research and NIHR Biomedical Research Unit in Liver Disease, University of Birmingham and Liver and Hepatobiliary Unit, Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham, UK Abstract: Metabolic syndrome is prevalent in patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection.Given the pandemic spread of HCV infection and metabolic syndrome, the bu

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Breeding for improvement of functional traits in dairy cattle

Selection programs for increasing milk production per cow have been very successful over time.This success has been partially due to the consideration of few other traits.Unfortunately, many traits related to costs of production and cattle functionality (i.e., “functional traits”), such as fertility and health, are antagonistically corr

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