Spice plants are popularly used as ingredients in food products. Promoting healthy eating, paying attention to the quality of products, means that organic and self-produced ingredients, whose origin and growing conditions are known, are gaining popul...
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Culinary herbs and spices contribute bioactives to the diet, which act to reduce systemic inflammation and associated disease. Investigating the health effects of herb/spice consumption is hampered, however, by a scarcity of dietary assessment tools...
The present study investigated the interaction effects (additive, synergistic, and antagonistic) of different groups of spices, their constituent phenolic compounds, and synthetic antioxidants on the total phenol (TP) content and antioxidant activity...
In this paper, we present an analysis and a validation of a simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) model for a pulse forming circuit of a high frequency electroporation system, which can deliver square-wave sub-microsecond (100&n...
There is a necessity to protect the quality and authenticity of herbs and spices because of the increase in the fraud and adulteration incidence during the last 30 years. There are several aspects that make herbs and spices quite vulnerable to fraud...
One of the most unfortunate attributes of technology’s routine and widespread use of most of the elements in the periodic table is the abysmal functional recycling rates that result from the complexity of modern technology and the rudimentary t...
Herbs and spices are a rich source of bioactive compounds that exhibit multidirectional health-promoting effects. Their bioactivity is mainly related to the presence of phenolic acids, flavonoids, carotenoids, essential oils, alkaloids, tannins, sapo...
The device library in the standard circuit simulator (SPICE) lacks a gallium nitride based high-electron-mobility-transistor (GaN-HEMT) model, required for the design and verification of power-electronic circuits. This paper shows that GaN-HEMTs can...
RCS reconstruction is an important way to reduce the measurement time in anechoic chambers and expand the radar original data, which can solve the problems of data scarcity and a high measurement cost. The greedy pursuit, convex relaxation, and spars...
(1) Background: Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) are emerging drugs of abuse sold as ‘K2’, ‘K9’ or ‘Spice’. Evidence shows that using SCs products leads to greater health risks than cannabis. They have been associated...
Skin cancer is a condition characterized by the abnormal growth of skin cells, primarily caused by exposure to ultraviolet (UV) radiation from the sun or artificial sources like tanning beds. Different types of skin cancer include melanoma, basal cel...
Background: Spices, i.e., curcumin, ginger, saffron, and cinnamon, have a thousand-year history of medicinal use in Asia. Modern medicine has begun to explore their therapeutic properties during the last few decades. We aimed to perform a systematic...
This research presents an improved version of the Jiles–Atherton (J.-A.) ferromagnetic core model. The presented model eliminates the distortion of minor hysteresis loops and achieves better matching with measured data for minor loops—a w...
This paper presents an improved compact model for TeraFETs employing a nonlinear transmission line approach to describe the non-uniform carrier density oscillations and electron inertia effects in the TeraFET channels. By calculating the equivalent c...
Various dietary phytochemicals seem to display antioxidant activity through the NF-E2-related factor 2 (Nrf2) pathway. However, few studies have demonstrated its antioxidant effect and Nrf2 dependency at the animal level. We constructed a zebrafish-b...
Batteries are important components of electrochemical energy storage systems used in mobile devices, electric vehicles, and power generation systems. This paper proposes a compact battery model dedicated to SPICE. This model takes into account proper...
This article proposes a new form of compact electrothermal model of impulse transformers. The proposed model is dedicated for use with SPICE and it is formulated in the network form. It simultaneously takes into account electrical, thermal, and magne...
Spices contain numerous bioactive compounds with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and metabolic effects. However, their biological activity depends strongly on the food matrix, which influences phytochemical stability, bioaccessibility,...
Traditional smoking techniques, while historically valued for preservation and flavor enhancement, face limitations in aromatic diversity and safety, prompting exploration of spice-derived alternatives to meet modern culinary demands. This study expl...
The paper proposes a compact electrothermal model of the IGBT module in the form of a subcircuit for SPICE. This model simultaneously takes into account electrical phenomena occurring in the module components and thermal phenomena occurring in this m...
Acrylamide (AA) is a typical contaminant produced during the heating process. In the present study, two seasonings (soy sauce and rice vinegar) and three spice essential oils (chive, ginger, and pepper) were added to the asparagine (Asn)/glucose (Glc...
This paper focuses on the problem of the modeling of FET power transistors made of gallium nitride offered by GaN Systems, Transphorm, and Nexperia. The considered devices have been available on the market since 2014. GaN-FETs are built as a cascade...
Background/Objectives: Third-generation cephalosporins are used to treat many infections, including urinary tract infections. Despite the risk of inducing resistance in SPICE-HaM microorganisms (Serratia, Providencia, indole-positive Proteus, Citroba...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the second most frequent cause of cancer-related mortality among all types of malignancies. Sedentary lifestyles, obesity, smoking, red and processed meat, low-fiber diets, inflammatory bowel disease, and gut dysbiosis are...
The study evaluated the combined effect of high-pressure processing (HPP) and spice extracts on low-salt sausages during refrigerated storage. Physicochemical and microbiological characteristics of the sausages were determined. HPP treatment increase...
The global market is experiencing stagnation and recession in the “untact era”, and the emergence of the metaverse provides platform support and presents a new paradigm. This study aims to provide a framework for content creators and mark...
Silicon carbide (SiC) is a key material for electronics operating in harsh environments due to its wide bandgap, high thermal conductivity, and radiation hardness. In this work, we present a SPICE model for a 4H-SiC BJT and TTL inverter exposed to ga...
To develop a flavor-modification strategy for silver carp surimi products, pea protein was used to partially replace surimi protein at a substitution level of 30% (w/w) to prepare surimi/pea protein mixed gels (SPGs). Two spice treatment methods were...
Sea fennel, a halophyte with growing economic importance in the Mediterranean region, offers a rich source of bioactive compounds for diverse applications in various industries, including food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetics. Recognizing the crucial...
This paper proposes a modeling method for improvement of the SPICE Model of a diode based on measurement and a nonlinear fitting random optimization algorithm. First, the mechanism of electromagnetic interference generated by diodes at high frequenci...
The uses of natural plant origin bioactive compounds are emerging as a promising strategy to detoxify aflatoxin B1 (AFB1). This study aimed to explore the potential of cooking, phytochemicals content, and antioxidant activities derived from garlic, g...
The sparse iterative covariance-based estimation (SPICE) method has recently gained significant attraction in the field of scanning radar super-resolution imaging because of its angular resolution enhancement capability. However, it is unable to pres...
This work presents a novel and fully virtual flow for extracting the SPICE model of a power MOSFET, starting exclusively from TCAD simulations. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on experimental silicon data, our methodology enables designers to...
We report on a procedure for extracting the SPICE model parameters of a RADFET sensor with a dielectric HfO2/SiO2 double-layer. RADFETs, traditionally fabricated as PMOS transistors with SiO2, are enhanced by incorporating high-k dielectric materials...
Food-borne pathogens and their toxins cause significant health problems in humans. Formation of biogenic amines (BAs) produced by microbial decarboxylation of amino acids in food is undesirable because it can induce toxic effects in consumers. Theref...
Sepsis remains a major cause of mortality and healthcare burden worldwide, and delays in identifying infectious etiologies and clinically actionable diagnostic signals continue to compromise the timely initiation of appropriate antimicrobial therapy...
Breast cancer remains a leading cause of death worldwide. The Apiaceae plant family includes many culinary spices that have been shown to have medicinal properties. Many phytochemicals exhibit potent bioactivities but often suffer from poor uptake an...
Background: Metabolic syndrome is a disorder characterised by the concomitant presence of obesity, hyperglycaemia, hypertension, hyperlipidaemia, and insulin resistance. An increasing body of research indicates that chronic inflammation, accompanied...
Some of the main factors affecting the product quality and shelf life of cheese include weight loss during storage, microbial spoilage, and structural changes in processing technology. Edible films are coating materials produced with the aim of impro...
Memristors have emerged as prospective two-terminal elements, having applications in memory, neuromorphic systems, and analog circuits. Biological materials such as egg albumin exhibit memristive behavior, displaying a distinctive pinched hysteresis...
Spices and pickled vegetables play a central role in everyday cuisine in China, contributing to flavor, food preservation, and dietary continuity, yet their ethnobotanical diversity and use patterns remain insufficiently documented in urbanizing regi...
Finding multiple operating points of nonlinear circuits is a fundamental issue in electronic circuit analysis and design. Methods that guarantee finding all DC solutions are very time-consuming and can be used to analyze only rather small-sized circu...
The molecular pathophysiology of cardiometabolic diseases is known to be influenced by dysfunctional ectopic adipose tissue. In addition to lifestyle improvements, these conditions may be managed by novel nutraceutical products. This study evaluatedt...
This study investigated the use of eco-friendly novel formulations of deep eutectic solvents (DESs) with water in ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) of antioxidant compounds from six spices, comparing them to traditional ethanol-based solvents. Sig...
High power electromagnetics (HPEMs) pose a potential threatening risk to the wireless communication system, especially according to the main coupling path of the RF front-end channel. SPICE modeling of the responses coupled on the RF channel is cruci...
With the increasing popularity of traditional Chinese sausages both domestically and internationally, the flavor characteristics of sausages have become an important topic in food science research. However, comparative studies on the flavor differenc...
Oxidative stress plays a relevant role in the progression of chronic conditions, including cardiometabolic diseases. Several Cameroonian plants, including spices, are traditionally used as herbal medicines for the treatment of diseases where oxidativ...
Accurate circuit simulation reflecting physical and electrical stress is of importance in indium gallium zinc oxide (IGZO)-based flexible electronics. In particular, appropriate modeling of threshold voltage (VT) changes in different bias and bending...
This article proposes a model of an actual photovoltaic installation situated in the Gdynia Maritime University, Poland. This model is formulated in the form of a SPICE network. In the presented model, the influence of selected weather parameters and...
This study aimed to investigate the effects of supplementing broiler chicken diets with an encapsulated product based on capsicum and other spice (black pepper and ginger) extracts on growth performance, nutrient digestibility, digestive enzyme activ...
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