5) and three MFL bars (6.0) were not significantly different and corresponded to ‘like slightly’ on the 9-point hedonic scale. External preference mapping determined that sweetness, grainy and lentil flavors, hardness, cohesiveness, cohesiveness of mass and moistness had the greatest influence on consumer acceptability. MFL bars contained more dietary fibre, protein and iron in addition to an approximate sevenfold increase in folate over the all oat counterpart. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“The

spherulitic structure and morphology of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) thin films crystallized from the melt were observed with a polarizing optical microscope. Depending on the thickness of the PHB thin film and crystallization temperature, banded and non-banded spherulites could form. Reducing the thin-film thickness and crystallization temperature selleck was favorable for the formation of the banded structure. The morphology transition from banded spherulites to nonbanded spherulites was related to the ratio of the crystallization rate to the diffusion rate. The formation mechanism 4EGI-1 of the banded structure was examined with the discontinuity growth theory. A depletion zone was considered to appear periodically at the crystal growth front because of the slow diffusion rate, and this may have resulted in the banded spherulites. (C) 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Appl Polym Sci

115: 1616-1621, 2010″
“Oral supportive care is critical in the management

of patients receiving hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT). Advances in HCT, such as the use of stem cells isolated from peripheral blood instead of bone marrow, have resulted in more rapid engraftment and thus a shorter duration of pancytopenia. Reduced-intensity conditioning regimens, associated with less toxicity, make HCT available to older patients and patients with comorbidities. These new developments have led to increased transplant rates and an altered spectrum of therapy-related complications, such as mucositis, and to Selleckchem Torin 2 shifts in the prevalence and pattern of occurrence of infections and graft-versus-host disease. The purpose of this paper is to review the main principles of HCT and to update dental providers on new technologies being applied to transplantation that may influence oral complications and oral care. (Oral Surg Oral Med Oral Pathol Oral Radiol Endod 2009;107:301-312)”
“The effects of an anionic surfactant on the dispersion of carbon black (CB) for the purpose of forming conducting composite films were examined with ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis) absorption spectroscopy. To obtain a good dispersion and size reduction of aggregated CB in a polymer matrix, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), used as a surfactant, was introduced into a CB suspension. A set of concentrations with various ratios of CB to SIDS (ranging from 1 : 0.