THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO CASHEWS: NUTRITION, HEALTH BENEFITS, AND POTENTIAL DRAWBACKS

Abstract The study is fully researcher past observation from the field. The researcher is from Panruti Taluka, which is more production cashews in Tamil Nadu. The researcher born and brought from this aria obliviously has a lot of ideas and usage in cashews. This article is a historical and experienced-based study. Hence, the article hasn’t the methodology and research hypothesis. This study is going to explain in details cashews nutrition’s, and it is benefits as well as demerits

BIOINFORMATIC STUDY OF AN ANTITUMOR PROTEIN, AZURIN

Objective: The main objective of this study is to analyze the structure and function of an antitumor protein, azurin, thereby giving validation to the protein structure and existing physicochemical properties in the anticancer protein which are responsible for the anticancer activity.Methods: Protein sequence analysis was done using Basic Local Alignment Search Tool (BLAST) with ten different randomly selected species of Pseudomonas obtained from GenBank. The physicochemical properties, prediction of secondary structure, identification of motifs and domains, three-dimensional (3-D) structure of the antitumor protein, validation through Ramachandran plot, multiple sequence alignment (MSA), and phylogenetic analysis were studied and functional property was confirmed through in silico docking.Results: The similarity search (BLAST-P analysis) for the primary sequence from GenBank carried out showed 86% similarity to the second sequence, azurin (Pseudomonas nitroreducens). The ProtParam, ExPASy tool server indicated the presence of essential physicochemical properties in azurin. Secondary structure prediction revealed random coil, extended strand, alpha helix, and beta turn. The study on domains indicated the presence of one domain in azurin responsible for the anticancer activity. The 3-D structural analysis revealed azurin as metalloprotein, of length-128, and polymer-1 with α-helices, β-sheets, and β-barrels. The validation carried out through Ramachandran plot showed the presence of two outliers (phi and psi). The biological relationship between the input sequences was studied through MSA and phylogenetic analysis. Further, azurin docked against the target protein (p53 tumor suppressor) showed the maximum binding affinity confirming its functional property of causing apoptosis.Conclusion: All the properties analyzed in the present study revealed that the azurin protein can act as a very good anticancer agent, and through the phylogenetic analysis, it was identified that Pseudomonas nitroreducens was closely related to the test organism Pseudomonas aeruginosa

Canopy uptake dominates nighttime carbonyl sulfide fluxes in a boreal forest

Nighttime vegetative uptake of carbonyl sulfide (COS) can exist due to the incomplete closure of stomata and the light independence of the enzyme carbonic anhydrase, which complicates the use of COS as a tracer for gross primary productivity (GPP). In this study we derived nighttime COS fluxes in a boreal forest (the SMEAR II station in Hyytiälä, Finland; 61°51′ N, 24°17′ E; 181 m a.s.l.) from June to November 2015 using two different methods: eddy-covariance (EC) measurements (FCOS-EC) and the radon-tracer method (FCOS-Rn). The total nighttime COS fluxes averaged over the whole measurement period were −6.8 ± 2.2 and −7.9 ± 3.8 pmol m−2 s−1 for FCOS-Rn and FCOS-EC, respectively, which is 33–38 % of the average daytime fluxes and 21 % of the total daily COS uptake. The correlation of 222Rn (of which the source is the soil) with COS (average R2  =  0.58) was lower than with CO2 (0.70), suggesting that the main sink of COS is not located at the ground. These observations are supported by soil chamber measurements that show that soil contributes to only 34–40 % of the total nighttime COS uptake. We found a decrease in COS uptake with decreasing nighttime stomatal conductance and increasing vapor-pressure deficit and air temperature, driven by stomatal closure in response to a warm and dry period in August. We also discuss the effect that canopy layer mixing can have on the radon-tracer method and the sensitivity of (FCOS-EC) to atmospheric turbulence. Our results suggest that the nighttime uptake of COS is mainly driven by the tree foliage and is significant in a boreal forest, such that it needs to be taken into account when using COS as a tracer for GPP

Size control of Charge-Orbital Order in Half-Doped Manganite, La0.5_{0.5}Ca0.5_{0.5}MnO3_3

Motivated by recent experimental results, we study the effect of size reduction on half-doped manganite, La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$, using the combination of density functional theory (DFT) and dynamical mean field theory (DMFT). We find that upon size reduction, the charge-ordered antiferromagnetic phase, observed in bulk, to be destabilized, giving rise to the stability of a ferromagnetic metallic state. Our theoretical results, carried out on defect-free nanocluster in isolation, establish the structural changes that follow upon size reduction to be responsible for this. Our study further points out the effect of size reduction to be distinctively different from application of hydrostatic pressure. Interestingly, our DFT+DMFT study, additionally, reports the correlation-driven stability of charge-orbitally ordered state in bulk La$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$, even in absence of long range magnetic order.Comment: 5 pages, 3 figures; to appear in Physical Review Letter

Application of a non-targeted approach by Flash Gas Chromatography-E-nose to discriminate the geographical origin of virgin olive oils

One of the fraudulent practices often applied in the olive oil sector concerns the mislabelling of the geographical origin of the products. In order to ensure that consumers are not mislead, the European Union issued a regulation concerning the definition of specific rules for the indication of geographical origin in the label (EU Reg. 29/2012). Beyond the compulsory traceability, the application of specific analytical techniques could be a useful tool to verify the conformity between the product and the information reported on the label. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effectiveness of a Flash Gas Chromatography-E-Nose, an instrument that combines functionality of electronic nose and ultra-fast GC, for the evaluation of the geographical origin of virgin olive oils (VOOs). For this purpose, more than 150 VOOs, different for their geographical origin (from single EU countries, such as Spain, Italy and Greece, and from single extra-EU countries, such as Tunisia, Turkey and Morocco) were collected and analyzed. Subsequently, a chemometric elaboration applied, with a non-targeted approach, to the chromatographic traces was realized. This permitted to build a model able to satisfactorily discriminate samples according to their geographical origin. This work is developed in the context of the project OLEUM \u201cAdvanced solutions for assuring authenticity and quality of olive oil at global scale\u201d, funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020 Programme (2014\u20132020, GA no. 635690). The information expressed in this abstract reflects the authors\u2019 views; the EC is not liable for the information contained therein

Storage time of nut spreads using flash gas chromatography E-nose combined with multivariate data analysis

The quality assessment, in terms of lipid oxidative status, of food products stored in the long-term is of great importance, especially those with a high lipid content. Specifically, companies working in this sector need feasible, simple, and fast techniques that are suitable for quality or process control. Herein, a fingerprinting approach, based on headspace analysis carried out by flash gas chromatography electronic nose (FGC E-nose) and multivariate data analysis was applied to pistachio and gianduja spreads. These samples, differently packaged, were stored in climatic chambers at 40 °C for 180 days and their headspace fraction was analyzed periodically for a total of 15 sampling times. Principal component analysis showed a clear separation according to the packaging type for both pistachio and gianduja samples. Partial least squares regression models were developed to predict the storage time considering the aggregated data (R2 up to 0.985, RMSEP = 6.16 days) or separately (R2 up to 0.989, RMSEP = 5.71 days). Based on the obtained residual prediction deviation (RPD from 4.4 to 8.5 in prediction), the models can be considered suitable for use in quality control in an industrial environment

Single-boson exchange decomposition of the vertex function

We present a decomposition of the two-particle vertex function of the single-band Anderson impurity model which imparts a physical interpretation of the vertex in terms of the exchange of bosons of three flavors. We evaluate the various components of the vertex for an impurity model corresponding to the half-filled Hubbard model within dynamical mean-field theory. For small values of the interaction almost the entire information encoded in the vertex function corresponds to single-boson exchange processes, which can be represented in terms of the Hedin three-leg vertex and the screened interaction. Also for larger interaction, the single-boson exchange still captures scatterings between electrons and the dominant low-energy fluctuations and provides a unified description of the vertex asymptotics. The proposed decomposition of the vertex does not require the matrix inversion of the Bethe-Salpeter equation. Therefore, it represents a computationally lighter and hence more practical alternative to the parquet decomposition