Sensory quality and onset of rigor mortis for farmed turbot under various post slaughter conditions

As is the case for most farmed fish, the production of turbot is targeting the fresh markets established in Europe and Asia. Usually turbot is packed whole, dead or alive and transported directly to the market. On some occasions the fish are bled and gutted prior to delivery

Phosphorescence-Fluorescence ratio imaging for monitoring the oxygen status during photodynamic therapy

The effectiveness of photodynamic therapy is strongly dependent on the availabilty of oxygen. In the present paper we show that the ratio between photosensitiser phosphorescence and fluorescence is a parameter that can be used to monitor the competition between singlet oxygen production and other processes quenching the photosensitiser triplet state. We present a theoretical basis for the validity of this approach and a series of in vitro imaging experiments

Klimaatverandering en de functies van het landelijk gebied : resultaten van vier jaar klimaatonderzoek

Vier thema's komen in deze brochure aan bod: koolstofvastlegging in bos en landbouw; emissies van lachgas en methaan uit de landbouw; landgebruik als actor en reactor in het klimaatsysteem; klimaatverandering en het landelijk gebied: een integrale kijk. Uitleg over een actueel onderwerp, aan de hand van 31 vrage

A line-of-sight electron cyclotron emission receiver for electron cyclotron resonance heating feedback control of tearing modes

An electron cyclotron emission (ECE) receiver inside the electron cyclotron resonance heating (ECRH) transmission line has been brought into operation. The ECE is extracted by placing a quartz plate acting as a Fabry¿Perot interferometer under an angle inside the electron cyclotron wave (ECW) beam. ECE measurements are obtained during high power ECRH operation. Thisdemonstrates the successful operation of the diagnostic and, in particular, a sufficient suppression of the gyrotron component preventing it from interfering with ECE measurements. When integratedinto a feedback system for the control of plasma instabilities this line-of-sight ECE diagnosticremoves the need to localize the instabilities in absolute coordinates

Childhood Abuse and Increased Risk for Anger in Depression during Adulthood: The Moderating Role of MAOA Genotype and Gender

Stress-related psychiatric disorders across the life spa

Vroege detectie van dracht bij koeien door Proteomics Biomerkers in melk = Early pregnancy detection using proteomics biomarkers in milk

The aim of this study is to develop an accurate, fast, cheap, and reliable test to detect pregnancy before day 35 on the basis of markers in milk. The ultimate goal is to have a method that can be implemented in a practical setting

The ECW installation at the TEXTOR tokamak

Previous electron cyclotron wave experiments on TEXTOR were performed using a 110 GHz, 350 kW, 200 ms gyrotron. The installation is presently extended with a new gyrotron at 140 GHz, which produces more than 800 kW of RF power in a Gaussian beam for more than 3 s at 1% duty cycle. Auxiliary systems have been overhauled and upgraded. The installation can be conveniently switched between gyrotrons while the control system is kept extremely versatile allowing to switch between manual expert operation and fully automated operation from the TEXTOR control room. A scheme is being developed to allow control of the steerable launcher depending on real-time plasma parameters. (C) 2003 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved