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Encyclopedia, Volume 1, Issue 4

December 2021 - 24 articles

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Articles (24)

  • Entry
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,917 Views
12 Pages

Greek Honey Authentication: Botanical Approach

  • Marinos Xagoraris,
  • Panagiota-Kyriaki Revelou,
  • Eleftherios Alissandrakis,
  • Petros A. Tarantilis and
  • Christos S. Pappas

20 December 2021

Honey is a functional, honeybee product with a useful role in human nutrition and several health benefits. Greece is a Mediterranean region with several types of monofloral honey. Today, Greek honey has acquired an important position in national and...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
8 Citations
16,192 Views
10 Pages

17 December 2021

In this entry, high temperature is defined as 90 to 150 °C. Many dairy processes, including extended shelf-life (ESL) and ultra-high-temperature (UHT) processing, in-container sterilization, yogurt milk heat treatment, pre-heating or forewarming...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
34 Citations
14,646 Views
36 Pages

Ecdysteroids

  • René Lafont,
  • Christine Balducci and
  • Laurence Dinan

1 December 2021

Ecdysteroid: member of a class of polyhydroxylated steroids found in invertebrate animals (zooecdysteroids; moulting hormones), plants (phytoecdysteroids) and fungi (mycoecdysteroids). Over 500 structural analogues are currently known. Biosynthetical...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
15 Citations
9,250 Views
10 Pages

24 November 2021

The increase in addiction during COVID-19 is a condition that emerged as an aftermath of COVID-19-related events, for instance, fear of the spread of COVID-19, self-abstention from many activities, and restrictions established by the lockdown measure...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
2 Citations
6,694 Views
11 Pages

Ionospheric Remote Sensing with GNSS

  • YuXiang Peng and
  • Wayne A. Scales

22 November 2021

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) plays a pivotal role in our modern positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) technologies. GNSS satellites fly at altitudes of approximately 20,000 km or higher. This altitude is above an ionized layer of...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
56 Citations
14,637 Views
23 Pages

Main Carotenoids Produced by Microorganisms

  • Sonia Martínez-Cámara,
  • Ana Ibañez,
  • Sara Rubio,
  • Carlos Barreiro and
  • José-Luis Barredo

19 November 2021

Carotenoids are the pigments present in plants, animals, and microorganisms which are responsible for a broad variety of colors found in nature. Their capacity as antioxidants mainly established their marketable success as health, food, and feed supp...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,660 Views
15 Pages

Misinformation about COVID-19: Psychological Insights

  • Elly Anastasiades,
  • Marios Argyrides and
  • Marilena Mousoulidou

15 November 2021

While the precise conceptualization of the term misinformation remains a subject of debate, the current entry defines misinformation as any type of information which is misleading or false, regardless of intent. The COVID-19 pandemic has seen the rap...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,761 Views
8 Pages

Interdisciplinary and Integrated STEM

  • Premnadh Madhava Kurup,
  • Yunying Yang,
  • Xia Li and
  • Yan Dong

11 November 2021

Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) is an approach and movement in innovative educational practices from the primary level internationally. This would provide a platform for an inquiry approach, creativity, and innovation in youn...

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