Ripening

and the fate of critical organisms during manufacturing, storage, distribution and culinary preparation of foods are considered. Inhibition of sprouting, insect disinfestations and parasite disinfection and delay of physiological processes such as ripening are carried out at low doses of 1Gy or lesser. Improving technological properties of food, like reduced cooking time, increasing shelf life and elimination of spoilage and pathogenic microorganisms are achieved at medium dose of about 1-10Gy.…

have to endure negative effects big and small. One consequence from this would include our wineries. California winemakers are having to face reality head on because of the hotter, drier weather we have. Grapes, the main ingredient for wine, are ripening earlier. The water in aquifers are diminishing, nights are now warmer, etc. The Jacksons, (From Jackson Family Wines) are trying their best to help their crops adapt to climate change. With a sophisticated network of systems, they have employed…

Edible vaccines Abstract Vaccines are widely used in the whole word. The death rate caused by the infectious organisms has been greatly reduced by the use of vaccines. However traditional vaccines have side-effects. Recently a newer approach to overcome the problems of the traditional vaccines has emerged. Edible vaccines can be better alternatives to the traditional vaccines as they can solve all the problems associated with traditional vaccines. For the production of edible vaccines gene of…

Cowmunism or Sowmunism Most good leaders are honest, respect those who trust them with power, and try to speak to the needs of whom they serve. The leader of Animal Farm was none of these things. Animal Farm by George Orwell is a story about Manor Farm. Manor Farm is run by Mr. Jones, who is a drunk and treats the animals extremely poorly. The animals decide to overthrow him, and they decide that they will all be equal. The animals make commandments to live by and the pigs are in charge for…

The Perfect Pivot “A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap.” These words by former President Abraham Lincoln accurately describe the impatient critics of President Obama’s, and subsequently, the Special Operations’ rebalance of forces and focus to Asia. The “strategic pivot” to the Asia-Pacific for…

Dashain is one of the greatest festivals of Nepal. It is based on the lunar calendar and falls in the months of September or October. Dashain is the longest and the most auspicious festival in the Nepalese annual calendar which is observed for 15 days from the new moon day called Ghatasthapan to the full moon day called Kojagrat Purnima. Among these fifteen days, the most important days of the celebration are the first, seventh, eighth, ninth and the tenth days. It is the longest as well as a…

Humans have been selectively breeding and cross breeding plants and animals almost as long as agriculture has been around. Recent advances in technology have allowed for people to modify an organism’s DNA in a way that would not occur naturally. GMO stands for genetically modified organisms, organisms that have been altered at the gene level. The main reason that GMO’s were created is for food for human consumption and medicine. With the increase in the world’s population and the hope for new…

the naked crust of our planet is unequally woven; it is thicker where the sun rises high in the ever cloudless heavens, and thinner towards the poles in the less happy climes where returning frosts often destroy the opening buds of spring, or the ripening fruits of autumn” (Humboldt, 230). The other important observation in his reading was about the destruction of nature which resulted in problems: “Once the region has lost the covering of plants with which it was invested, if the sands are…

Florence would be that moment. In his own words through the mouth-piece of Dante the pilgrim to his former teacher Brunetto Latini in Canto XV, Dante laments: “In the bright life above…I came into a valley and lost my way, before my age had reached its ripening time. I turned my back on the place but yesterday…” Through his time in the Florentine political sphere, Dante was no stranger to the severity of this sentence, having voted to exile fifteen prominent politicians just two years before…

It is to this same end that Keats cultivates the silent grounds of his sanctuary for Psyche, with everything that “the gardener Fancy e’er could feign” (62). In his discussion on Hölderlin, Heidegger reminds us that the poetic is not “merely an ornament and bonus added to dwelling” – but its simultaneous goal and condition. As the appeal to “poesy” in “Sleep and Poetry” tells us, its “sanctuary” carries the promise of “clear air, / Smoothed from intoxication by the breath / Of flowering bays”…