50 research outputs found
Texture evaluation of whey protein concentrate incorporated ice cream by Back Extrusion technique
Back extrusion technique was employed to evaluated texture properties of partial substituted whey protein concentrate (WPC) with milk solids not fat (1, 2, 3 and 4%) in ice cream formula.
There was no remarkable effect of adding WPC on total solids or fat %. Total protein increased, while ash, and lactose content were significantly decreased.
Back-extrusion results represented a decrease in hardness values of resultant ice cream, while, during storage, there was a slight increase. Energy input values decreased by increasing substitution levels of WP. Although, energy output inversely correlated with substitution levels of WP it correlated with storage period indicating a strong structure for stored ice cream. Load at target deformation (50%) applied to the samples when fresh and after 14 days storage showing decreased values proportional to increasing substitution levels of WP. The resilience showed decreased ratio indicating more visco-elastic properties in fresh ice cream. The recovered height and deformation increased with increasing substitution levels of WP and storage period. Therefore, more sticking properties were obtained in resultant ice cream. Adhesive force decreased significantly with increasing substitution levels of WP and storage period. Adhesiveness values were significantly higher in all treatments than control.
The texture of the ice cream became smoother by replacing milk solid not fat with WPC up to 3%. From the data obtained, it could be recommended that ice cream can be produced with high quality by substituting milk solid not fat with WPC up to 3%
Investigation of Mannose-binding lectin level and deficiency in patients with Dermatophytosis
Background: Dermatophytosis is a cutaneous fungal infection with a worldwide occurrence. In dermatophyte infections, the release of keratinocyte cytokines, in the presence of dermatophyte antigens, causes an acute phase response; subsequently, the acute-phase proteins are produced by hepatocytes. Mannose-binding lectin (MBL), an acute-phase protein, also acts as a kind of pattern recognition receptor. MBL deficiency plays a role in susceptible viral, bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections. Objectives: Some research has been conducted on the role of acute-phase proteins in dermatophyte infections. This study has been designed to determine the serum MBL levels in patients with dermatophytosis. Materials and Methods: This cross-sectional study, included 96 healthy individuals and 105 patients with dermatophytosis, in access sampling procedure. Microscopic examinations were conducted and cultivated to detect dermatophytes, and in the cases that the identification of different dermatophyte species was necessary, complementary examinations were conducted. Additionally, the enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was used to determine the serum MBL levels of healthy individuals and patients. Various tests (Chi-square, Fisher exact, Mann - Whitney, Kruskal Wallis, Kendal tau correlation coefficient and ROC curve analysis) were used to examine the relationships between variables, when the P < 0.05 were considered as significant level. Results: The mean serum MBL level of healthy individuals and patients, was 1.53 ± 1.87 μg/mL and 1.97 ± 2.03 μg/mL (P = 0.039), respectively. Using ROC curve analysis, the MBL level was established as a significant predictor of dermatophytosis (P = 0.042). MBL deficiency (serum level < 1 μg/mL) was more common in healthy group (56.2) than the patients with dermatophytosis (41.0). Conclusions: The findings showed that the increased concentrations of serum MBL in patients with dermatophytosis play a role in this fungal infection. The high frequency of MBL deficiency in healthy individuals was compared with patients indicated that MBL deficiency is not a predisposing factor of this type of infection. © 2013, Ahvaz Jundishapur University of Medical Sciences; Published by Kowsar Corp
Quasiparticle contribution to heat carriers relaxation time in DyBaCuO from heat diffusivity measurements
It is shown that the controversy on phonons or electrons being the most
influenced heat carriers below the critical temperature of high-T
superconductors can be resolved. Electrical and thermal properties of the same
DyBaCuO monodomain have been measured for two highly different
oxygenation levels. While the oxygenated sample DyBaCuO has very
good superconducting properties ( K), the DyBaCuO
sample exhibits an insulator behavior. A careful comparison between
measurements of the {\bf thermal diffusivity} of both samples allows us to
extract the electronic contribution. This contribution to the relaxation time
of heat carriers is shown to be large below and more sensitive to the
superconducting state than the phonon contribution.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
Separation of Quasiparticle and Phononic Heat Currents in YBCO
Measurements of the transverse (k_{xy}) and longitudinal (k_{xx}) thermal
conductivity in high magnetic fields are used to separate the quasiparticle
thermal conductivity (k_{xx}^{el}) of the CuO_2-planes from the phononic
thermal conductivity in YBa_2Cu_3O_{7-\delta}. k_{xx}^{el} is found to display
a pronounced maximum below T_c. Our data analysis reveals distinct transport
(\tau) and Hall (\tau_H) relaxation times below T_c: Whereas \tau is strongly
enhanced, \tau_H follows the same temperature dependence as above T_c
Quasiparticle thermal Hall angle and magnetoconductance in YBa_2Cu_3O_x
We present a way to extract the quasiparticle (qp) thermal conductivity
Kappa_e and mean-free-path in YBa_2Cu_3O_x, using the thermal Hall effect and
the magnetoconductance of Kappa_e. The results are very consistent with heat
capacity experiments. Moreover, we find a simple relation between the thermal
Hall angle Theta_Q and the H-dependence of Kappa_e, as well as numerical
equality between Theta_Q and the electrical Hall angle. The findings also
reveal an anomalously anisotropic scattering process in the normal state.Comment: 4 pages in Tex, 5 figures in EPS; replaced on 5/12/99, minor change
Thermal Conductivity Tensor in YBaCuO: Effects of a Planar Magnetic Field
We have measured the thermal conductivity tensor of a twinned
YBaCuO single crystal as a function of angle between
the magnetic field applied parallel to the CuO planes and the heat current
direction, at different magnetic fields and at T=13.8 K. Clear fourfold and
twofold variations in the field-angle dependence of and
were respectively recorded in accordance with the d-wave pairing
symmetry of the order parameter. The oscillation amplitude of the transverse
thermal conductivity was found to be larger than the
longitudinal one in the range of magnetic field studied here
(). From our data we obtain quantities that are free
from non-electronic contributions and they allow us a comparison of the
experimental results with current models for the quasiparticle transport in the
mixed state.Comment: 9 Figures, Phys. Rev. B(in press
Dirac Nodes and Quantized Thermal Hall Effect in the Mixed State of d-wave Superconductors
We consider the vortex state of d-wave superconductors in the clean limit.
Within the linearized approximation the quasiparticle bands obtained are found
to posess Dirac cone dispersion (band touchings) at special points in the
Brillouin zone. They are protected by a symmetry of the linearized Hamiltonian
that we call T_Dirac. Moreover, for vortex lattices that posess inversion
symmetry, it is shown that there is always a Dirac cone centered at zero energy
within the linearized theory. On going beyond the linearized approximation and
including the effect of the smaller curvature terms (that break T_Dirac), the
Dirac cone dispersions are found to acquire small gaps (0.5 K/Tesla in YBCO)
that scale linearly with the applied magnetic field. When the chemical
potential for quasiparticles lies within the gap, quantization of the
thermal-Hall conductivity is expected at low temperatures i.e. kappa_{xy}/T =
n[(pi k_B)^2/(3h)] with the integer `n' taking on values n=+2, -2, 0. This
quantization could be seen in low temperature thermal transport measurements of
clean d-wave superconductors with good vortex lattices.Comment: (23 pages in all [7 pages in appendices], 9 figures
Ground State Vortex Lattice Structures in d-wave Superconductors
We show in a realistic symmetry gap model for a cuprate
superconductor that the clean vortex lattice has discontinuous structural
transitions (at and near T=0), as a function of the magnetic field along
the c-axis. The transitions arise from the singular nonlocal and anisotropic
susceptibility of the superconductor to the perturbation
caused by supercurrents associated with vortices. The susceptibility, due to
virtual Dirac quasiparticle-hole excitation, is calculated carefully, and leads
to a ground state transition for the triangular lattice from an orientation
along one of the crystal axis to one at 45 to them, i.e, along the gap zero
direction. The field scale is seen to be 5 Tesla , where is the gap maximum, is the
nearest neighbour hopping, is the lattice constant, and is the
flux quantum. At much higher fields () there is a discontinuous
transition to a centred square structure. The source of the differences from
existing calculations, and experimental observability are discussed, the latter
especially in view of the very small (a few degrees per vortex) differences
in the ground state energy.Comment: To be published in Phys. Rev.
The Test Re-Test Reliability of A Novel Single Leg Hop Test (T-Drill Hop Test)
# Background
Functional training and testing are an important part of a comprehensive rehabilitation program stressing the neuromuscular system in ways that simulate athletic performance to help determine criteria for return to sport. There are numerous single leg hop tests that have been used for these purposes, however, the validity and clinical relevance has been questioned. Many of the functional performance tests assess only the sagittal plane or forward direction and may only partially assess a person’s athletic abilities. There is a need for reliable and valid functional tests to assess in a multi-directional manner.
# Purpose/Hypothesis
The purpose of this study is to determine the test re-test reliability of a novel multi-directional timed single leg hop test (T-Drill Hop Test) for use in rehabilitation and performance assessments.
# Study Design
Cross-sectional reliability study.
# Methods
Fifty healthy recreationally active college age subjects, (23 males and 27 females) between the ages of 18 and 35, (mean age 23.48 with SD 3.82) consented to perform the test. The subjects hopped along a 10ft. x 10ft. “T” shaped course. Subjects performed two timed maximum effort trials of the T-Drill Hop Test on each leg with an interval of 3-7 days between the two testing days. Intraclass Correlation Coefficients (ICC) were calculated to determine intersession reliability.
# Results
The inter-rater reliability (ICC’s) for the entire group of 50 subjects ranged between .98 and 1.00 suggesting excellent reliability. The bilateral comparison, utilizing paired t-tests, of the T-Drill Hop Test demonstrated no significant differences between the time scores for the dominant and non-dominant legs for either males or females (p>.05).
# Conclusion
This study demonstrates the T-Drill Hop Test has excellent test re-test reliability. These results are important prior to validation and utilization as a clinical functional performance test.
# Levels of Evidence
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Carrier relaxation, pseudogap, and superconducting gap in high-Tc cuprates: A Raman scattering study
We describe results of electronic Raman-scattering experiments in differently
doped single crystals of Y-123 and Bi-2212. The comparison of AF insulating and
metallic samples suggests that at least the low-energy part of the spectra
originates predominantly from excitations of free carriers. We therefore
propose an analysis of the data in terms of a memory function approach.
Dynamical scattering rates and mass-enhancement factors for the carriers are
obtained. In B2g symmetry the Raman data compare well to the results obtained
from ordinary and optical transport. For underdoped materials the dc scattering
rates in B1g symmetry become temperature independent and considerably larger
than in B2g symmetry. This increasing anisotropy is accompanied by a loss of
spectral weight in B2g symmetry in the range between the superconducting
transition at Tc and a characteristic temperature T* of order room temperature
which compares well with the pseudogap temperature found in other experiments.
The energy range affected by the pseudogap is doping and temperature
independent. The integrated spectral loss is approximately 25% in underdoped
samples and becomes much weaker towards higher carrier concentration. In
underdoped samples, superconductivity related features in the spectra can be
observed only in B2g symmetry. The peak frequencies scale with Tc. We do not
find a direct relation between the pseudogap and the superconducting gap.Comment: RevTeX, 21 pages, 24 gif figures. For PostScript with embedded eps
figures, see http://www.wmi.badw-muenchen.de/~opel/k2.htm