Wastewater discharge is a matter of concern as it is the primary source of water pollution. Consequently, wastewater treatment plays a key role in reducing the negative impact that wastewater discharge produce into the ...

Aim To assess prescription patterns for treatment of type 2 diabetes (T2D) and their outcomes in the IDMPS survey in Argentina. Methods Data from 2551 people with T2D recruited from 210 physicians participating in IDMPS ...

In this article, we present a new command, qcte, that implements several methods for estimation and inference for quantile treatment-effects models with a continuous treatment. We propose a semiparametric two-step estimator, ...

The aims of this study were to examine the relationship between motivation for treatment and for change, and to explore their role in the prediction of treatment completion. The sample was composed of 560 predominantly ...

Aqueous solutions (0.2%, w/v) of scleroglucans from Sclerotium rolfsii ATCC 201126 from different cultivation time or purification protocol (EPS I, EPS II, EPSi) as well as a commercial scleroglucan (LSCL) exhibited different ...

The effects of UV-C (4.1 kJm−2) and heat treatment (45 ◦C, 3 h in air) either separately or combined on the quality of strawberries (Fragaria × ananassa cv Seascape) at the 75 or 50% surface red ripening stage were assessed, ...

Foods are complex ecosystems constituted by the environment and the microorganisms that live in it. The food environment consists of intrinsic factors such as pH, water activity, and nutritional components and extrinsic ...

Over the years, various physicochemical treatment processes, such as photocatalysis, membrane technology, ozonolysis and chlorination have been tested at laboratory and pilot scale for the treatment of various cyanotoxins. ...

Heat treatments cause a moderate and reversible stress that interrupts the normal metabolism (senescence or fruit ripening) of the product. Although there is a large number of reports about heat treatments on broccoli ...