Microbial Food Safety Risk to Humans Associated with Poultry Feed: The Role of Irradiation by Tahiru Mahami, Wellington Togby-Tetteh, Delali Isaac Kottoh, Leticia Amoakoah-Twum, Emmanuel Gasu, Sylvester Nana Yao Annan, Daniel Larbi, Isaac Adjei, Abraham Adu-Gyamfi

“…Mean counts of control feed samples were Log10 5.98 for total viable count (TVC), Log10 4.76 for coliform count (CC), Log10 2.89 for Staphylococcus aureus count (STC), and Log10 4.57 for yeast and mold count (YMC) and Salmonella spp. …”
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Assessing the Value of Transfer Learning Metrics for Radio Frequency Domain Adaptation by Lauren J. Wong, Braeden P. Muller, Sean McPherson, Alan J. Michaels

“…Results show that the two existing metrics tested, Log Expected Empirical Prediction (LEEP) and Logarithm of Maximum Evidence (LogME), correlate well with post-transfer accuracy and can therefore be used to select source models for radio frequency (RF) domain adaptation and to predict post-transfer accuracy.…”
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Comparison of Geostatistical Kriging Algorithms for Intertidal Surface Sediment Facies Mapping with Grain Size Data by No-Wook Park, Dong-Ho Jang

“…For efficient prediction of compositional data, additive log-ratio transformation is applied before cokriging analysis. …”
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Effect of gaseous ozone treatment on cells and biofilm of dairy Bacillus spp. isolates by Angela Maria Catania, Alessandra Dalmasso, Patrizia Morra, Emanuele Costa, Maria Teresa Bottero, Pierluigi Aldo Di Ciccio

“…After a short-term (10 min) exposure, a slight reduction in microbial loads (0.66–2.27 ± 0.15 Log10 CFU/mL) was observed for B. cereus strains, whereas a more pronounced reduction (2.90–3.81 ± 0.12 Log10 CFU/mL) was noted in B. subtilis isolates. …”
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Synthesis of parallel adders from if-decision diagrams by A. A. Prihozhy

“…If-decision diagrams provide a parallel many-bit adder model with the time complexity of Ο(log2n) and area complexity of Ο(n×log2n). The paper propose a technique, which produces adder diagrams with such properties by systematically cutting the diagram’s longest paths. …”
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Quality Boost and Shelf-Life Prolongation of African Catfish Fillet Using Lepidium sativum Mucilage Extract and Selenium Nanoparticles by Manar M. Shehab, Zizy I. Elbialy, Ahmed A. Tayel, Shaaban H. Moussa, Ibrahim I. Al-Hawary

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Robustness of Auditory Teager Energy Cepstrum Coefficients for Classification of Pathological and Normal Voices in Noisy Environments by Lotfi Salhi, Adnane Cherif

“…Finally, the discrete cosine transform of the log-filtered Teager Energy spectrum is applied. …”
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Proteomic analysis of Buffalo milk somatic cells reveals metabolomic and immunological transitions during early lactation by Priyanka M. Kittur, Lija Satheesan, Narasimha Tanuj Gunturu, Yallappa M. Somagond, A. P. Madhusoodan, Ravi Kumar Gandham, Rani Alex, Ajay Kumar Dang

“…Down-regulated proteins [Padj<0.05, log2(FC) ≤ 0.5] were associated with lipid transport, aldosterone synthesis and secretion, mineral balance, complement-coagulation system, antigen processing and presentation, and mRNA processing. …”
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Recovered Bacteria Associated with Gas Accumulation in Vacuum-Packaged Fresh Kosher Ground Beef Stored at Refrigeration Temperature by Norasak Kalchayanand, Mohammad Koohmaraie, Tommy L. Wheeler

“…The initial populations of aerobic bacteria (AB), psychrotrophic bacteria (PSYB), Enterobacteriaceae (EB) increased by 0.58–1.09 log CFU/g, while the population of lactic acid (LAB) increased 3.18 log CFU/g after 5d at 2–4 °C. …”
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Quality Improvement of Chicken Meat Treated with Neutral Electrolyzed Water by Ali Meawad Ahmed, Mona Mohammed Eissawy, Ibrahim Mohamed Fares, Taghreed Ahmed Hafez, Nada Ibrahim Hussein

“…Background: Chicken meat during processing may be exposed to bacterial contamination through several different ways. …”
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Assessment of Raw Cow Milk Quality in Smallholder Dairy Farms in Pemba Island Zanzibar, Tanzania by S. H. Gwandu, H. E. Nonga, R. H. Mdegela, A. S. Katakweba, T. S. Suleiman, R. Ryoba

“…The milk mean TVC was 11.02±11.6 log CFU/ml and TCC was 6.7±7.3 log CFU/ml. Up to 26.5% of milk samples had the TCC beyond levels. …”
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Aggregative Sampling Performs Similar to Composite Produce Samples to Recover Quality and Safety Indicators Throughout Romaine Lettuce Production by Jorge Quintanilla Portillo, Rachel J. Gathman, Jiaying Wu, Eric Wilhelmsen, Matthew J. Stasiewicz

“…In preharvest, swabs had 1.2 log(CFU/g) higher means of aerobic bacteria than romaine tissue grab samples (p < 0.001), but 1.7 log(CFU/g) lower coliforms (p < 0.001). …”
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Effect of packaging materials and storage temperature on the shelf stability of Awaze paste by Biadge Kefale, Biadge Kefale, Mulugeta Admasu Delele, Mulugeta Admasu Delele, Solomon Workneh Fanta, Solomon Abate

“…The highest total bacterial count (TBC), 4.12 log CFU/g, was found in samples stored in metal cans. …”
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Effect of Ultrasound Combined with Plasma-Activated Water on Lethal and Sublethal Injury Against <i>Escherichia coli</i> by Xin Wen, Meimei Nie, Zhongyuan Zhang, Lingming Xiong, Jialin Feng, Zhi Zhang, Dajing Li, Yihong Bao, Haihong Wu

“…Plasma-activated water (PAW) treatment is a promising technique for food processing, but it causes sublethal injury (SI) to microorganisms. …”
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Quantifying solid volume of stacked eucalypt timber using detection-segmentation and diameter distribution models by Gianmarco Goycochea Casas, Zool Hilmi Ismail, Mathaus Messias Coimbra Limeira, Carlos Pedro Boechat Soares, José Marinaldo Gleriani, Daniel Henrique Brada Binoti, Carlos Alberto Araújo Júnior, Mohd Ibrahim Shapiai, Leonardo Ippolito Rodrigues, Tassius Menezes Araújo, Helio Garcia Leite

“…The proposed procedure combines automatic log detection and diameter distribution models. …”
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Scheme and practice of IPTV user viewing behavior analysis based on MapR by Ai FANG, Yuzhong HANG, Xiong XU, Duo JIN

“…Interactive TV business open platform is the internet and IPTV transformation practice for operators.It's the interconnected hub between users,terminals,content,business and other.The platform now has millions of active users,generating nearly 1 TB of daily viewing activity and system log data.They can be used for business analysis,user portraits and system analysis.MapR was one of the large data processing frameworks suitable for this kind of analysis.The main features and core components of MapR were introduced combined with actual demand,and the architecture design and application effect of analysis system based on MapR was elaborated.…”
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Effect of Packaging on Microbial Quality of Edible Flowers During Refrigerated Storage by Aleksandra Wilczyńska, Anita Kukułowicz, Anna Lewandowska

“…The results showed that the edible flowers did not contain Salmonella sp. or Escherichia coli (except nasturtiums), while all flowers contained both yeast and moulds at counts about 4–5 log cfu/g, and Staphylococcus aureus at numbers ranging from 1.89 to 2.72 log cfu/g. …”
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Enhancing Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus ATCC 9595 growth in Aloe vera juice fermentation with stingless bee honey by Rosyidah Alifah Rifdah, Indahsari Silvana Nurulfauziyyah, Fajariyah Anna, Nursiwi Asri, Ratih Dwi, Sugianto Asep Wahyu, Efendhi Alan, Damayanti Ema

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Thermal inactivation of Salmonella in chicken curry puff filling by Nur Amira Rosli, Nor Ainy Mahyudin, Nor-Khaizura Mahmud Ab Rashid, Jinap Selamat, Lizawati Mohamad Darwi, Rahim Khan

“…These parameters can be used to predict the time and temperature to achieve a 7-log cfu/g reduction of Salmonella, aligning with the current performance standard in commercial poultry processing. …”
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The potential correlations between cell-free extracts from Rhodobacter sphaeroides grown under low-oxygen conditions and volatile organic compounds in Chinese-style sausage by Xin Nie, Jingjing Luo, Hongfan Chen, Haomou Pu, Qiqi Luo, Xinhui Wang, Xiaoping Yu, Dayu Liu, Zhiping Zhao

“…From a total of 2689 proteins, 364 differentially expressed proteins were identified (p < 0.05, |Log2FC| > 1, and VIP > 1,) in RCFE grown under low- and high-oxygen conditions. …”
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