Abstract: Provided is a transgenic mouse with modified glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase which can be used as a model and screening tool for various aspects of glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency.

Abstract: The present invention provides an all-female progeny of a decapod crustacean. The invention further provides the newly created: WW homogametic Neo-male decapod crustacean and WW homogametic female decapod crustacean. The crossing of WW homogametic Neo-male decapod crustacean and WW homogametic female decapod crustacean resulted in a 100% homogametic all-WW female progeny.

Abstract: At least one lure resembling, for example, a worm or other live bait (crawfish, frog, etc.), is packaged in a closed container which contains coffee grounds or other scent and/or flavor imparting particulate material in contact therewith.

Abstract: The invention claims a novel fishing lure comprising a segmented portion wherein the segmented portion is rigid. The invention also claims a novel wing feature comprising a rotating wing bar, a blade and a wing lock.

Abstract: Reel components, such as reel knobs, and methods of assembling the reel components are disclosed herein. The reel knob can include a base and a gripping member. The base can include a recessed area. The gripping member can comprise a resilient material. The gripping member can be sized and shaped to correspond to the recessed area. The gripping member can be adhered to the recessed area. The base can be pressed down onto the gripping member to join the base to the gripping member.

Abstract: An apparatus used for fishing; the apparatus includes an elongate member having a plurality of second contact strips, a proximal end and a distal end. The apparatus also includes a recess located on the proximal end of the elongate member. Further still, the apparatus includes a housing having an aperture, an internal motor, a plurality of buttons, and a plurality of first contact strips. The housing is configured for removable coupling with the recess. The plurality of first contact strips on the housing are configured for removable coupling with the plurality of second contact strips on the elongate member. The apparatus is useful for automating the process of delivering and retracting a fishing line from the housing.

Abstract: A fishing lure container incorporating a case having axial and oppositely axial ends; axial and oppositely axial walls fixedly attached to the case, wherein such walls are respectively positioned for closing the case's axial and oppositely axial ends; axial and oppositely axial ports respectively opening the case at the axial and the oppositely axial walls; axial and oppositely axial caps respectively covering the axial and oppositely axial ports, the axial and oppositely axial caps being rotatable; a lure frame having axial and oppositely axial ends, wherein such frame's axial end is fixedly attached to the axial cap; and a quick disconnect fastener interconnecting the lure frame's oppositely axial end and the oppositely axial cap.

Abstract: Systems and methods for attracting insects by simulating wing flash are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for attracting insects by simulating wing flash can include (1) determining a light-pulse frequency that mimics a wing flash for a target winged insect species; and (2) controlling a light source to emit light at the light-pulse frequency. Devices for attracting insects by simulating wing flash are also disclosed.

Abstract: Provided is a pest control device with which it is possible to reliably exterminate pests in a cultivation room. This invention is provided with a spraying means equipped with nozzles for spraying a chemical solution containing a pest control agent into a plant cultivation room. Liquid droplets being sprayed from the nozzles measure 100 ?m or smaller, and have an average particle diameter of 10-30 ?m. The nozzles are disposed so that the spray from the nozzles fills the entirety of the plant cultivation room interior in a uniform manner. The invention is provided with a control device for causing the nozzles to spray so that the humidity in the plant cultivation room is 90-100%.

Abstract: The invention relates to a trap, which may be a self-setting trap comprising a lockout system configured to prevent the actuation system of the trap from activating a strike member when an energy level of the power supply is below a predetermined threshold. In this way, the trap may be configured to kill an animal quickly, strongly and therefore as humanely as possible. In one embodiment, the trap may comprise a shock absorbing system to protect sensitive components of the trap when the strike member is activated.

Abstract: A motion sensing device and method wherein a single sensor assembly will transmit a signal when a rodent trap is triggered. The single sensor assembly provide a sensing rod attached to one side of a leaf of an open hinge and a magnet affixed to the same leaf on the opposite side. The magnet is positioned adjacent to a reed switch and transmitter which is attached to the opposite leaf of the open hinge. The sensing rod is moved up and down causing the reed switch to activate the transmitter.

Abstract: Stabilized liquid agrochemical compositions are provided that comprise flowable, aqueous dispersion concentrates comprising a) a continuous aqueous liquid phase; b) at least one dispersed, solid phase comprising a dispersion of polymer particles having a mean particle size of at least one micron, wherein the outside surfaces of the particles comprise a colloidal solid material and wherein the particles have at least one agrochemically active ingredient distributed therein, optionally a non-porous particulate mineral that acts as a diffusion barrier to slow the release of the active ingredient, and optionally at least one non-cross-linkable mobile chemical such that the extraction of this chemical from the disperse phase renders it porous in a manner that allows the active ingredient to diffuse out. The colloidal solid is used to stabilize the polymerizable resin in an emulsion state during preparation.

Abstract: The sterilizing and deodorizing agents target bacteria, odors, toxic substances, etc. and are made from silver as metal particles and titanium dioxide as ceramic particles by (1) thermal bonding or (2) pressure bonding or (3) thermal/pressure bonding and mixing the resultant with hydroxyapatite as an adsorptive material. The agent can be mixed with ink, bonding agents and paints and applied to a variety of substrates.

Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide compositions and methods involving textiles that repel insects by vibrations and oscillations. The random and chaotic oscillations are caused by molecular bond isomerizations in the textile material driven by visible light, such as sunlight.

Abstract: The present invention concerns the field of food preservation and more specifically compositions comprising xanthohumol for use as an anti-microbial agent in the preservation of food in combination with another antimicrobial agent. In particular, the present invention provides the use of compositions comprising xanthohumol and a further antimicrobial agent, as an anti-microbial composition against lactic acid bacteria. Such compositions and food products comprising such compositions are also encompassed by the invention.

Abstract: There is described a method of sterilizing surfaces using flavanoids, for example mixtures containing inter alia naringin and neohesperidin, by misting.

Abstract: Compounds of the formula (I) wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, useful as a pesticides, and especially fungicides.

Abstract: The subject of the invention is an antibacterial and antifungal preparation constituting an additive to various materials, in particular, to plastics, containing no nanometal particles, which may be combined with almost any kind of polymers or other materials, from biodegradable polymer packaging, textiles, paints, to hardened PVC, using any processing technology, such as: extrusion, injection moulding, blowing, pressing, lamination, pouring or pumping through capillaries in production of continuous fibre for the textile industry, whereas the biocide contains an active ingredient in the form of a derivative of an acid with a formula shown in drawing (1), where R1 and R2 signify, each separately or both jointly, carboxyl groups, R3 and R4 signify hydrogen or a methyl group, R5, R6, R7 signify hydrogen, X and Y signify interchangeably C and N in the amount of 60 to 85% by weight, and the remaining amount is a composition of inorganic and organic fillers.

Abstract: A composition for inhibiting the growth of mycotoxins without affecting the growth of fungi is provided. The mycotoxin is an Aflatoxin and the fungus is an Aspergillus. The anti-aflatoxin composition comprises benzimidazole derivatives of Formula, where the A is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl or C6-C14 aryl; B is C1-C10 alkyl or C6-C14 aryl or oxygen, sulfur, nitrogen containing heteroaryl; C and D are hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl or C1-C6 alkoxyl or C6-C14 aryl; E is hydrogen or nitro or cyano or carboxyl or acetamidoxime or amidoxime or C1-C6 alkyl or C1-C6 alkoxyl or C6-C14 aryl or oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen containing heteroaryl; F is hydrogen or C1-C6 alkyl or C1-C6 alkoxyl or C6-C14 aryl or oxygen, sulfur, and nitrogen containing heteroaryl, and mixture thereof with corresponding salts.

Abstract: Provided is a compound represented by formula (I), or an N-oxide thereof: wherein: A1 represents a nitrogen atom or a CR4; R4 represents a hydrogen atom or the like; R1 represents a C2-C10 chain hydrocarbon group having one or more halogen atoms or the like; R2 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms or the like; q represents 0, 1, 2, or 3; R3 represents a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group optionally having one or more substituents selected from Group B or the like; p represents 0, 1, or 2; R6 represents a C1-C6 alkyl group optionally having one or more halogen atoms or the like; and n represents 0, 1, or 2. The compound of formula (I) has excellent control efficacies against harmful arthropods.

Abstract: A synergistic aqueous wood preservative composition comprising a copper compound and penflufen. The copper compounds of the compositions of the invention may be soluble, partially solubilized or micronized particles. The penflufen of the compositions of the invention may be solubilized, emulsified or particulate. The wood preservative compositions of the present invention are surprisingly provided as stable dispersions and confer surprising and unexpected resistance to treated wood and wood products.

Abstract: A method for the control of the growth of ALS-resistant plants is provided, the method comprising applying to the plants and/or their locus a herbicidally effective amount of a combination of (A) metribuzin and (B) one or more sulfonylureas. A composition comprising a combination of (A) metribuzin and (B) one or more sulfonylureas is also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazoles of the formula I, or the N-oxides and/or their agriculturally useful salts and to their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, or to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi or the materials, plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of the formula I, or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; the present invention also relates to mixtures comprising at least one such compound of the formula I and at least one further pesticidally active substance selected from the group consisting of herbicides, safeners, fungicides, insecticides, and plant growth regulators; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one such compound of the formula I and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazoles of the formula I or an N-oxide and/or their agriculturally useful salts and to their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, or to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi or the materials, plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of the formula I, or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; the present invention also relates to mixtures comprising at least one such compound of the formula I and at least one further pesticidally active substance selected from the group consisting of herbicides, safeners, fungicides, insecticides, and plant growth regulators; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one such compound of the formula I and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.

Abstract: The present invention relates the use of compounds of the formula I or the N-oxides, or the agriculturally acceptable salts thereof for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, wherein the variables are defined as given in the description and claims. Further the present invention relates to novel compounds, mixtures comprising at least one such compound of the formula I and at least one further pesticidally active substance selected from the group consisting of herbicides, safeners, fungicides, insecticides, and plant growth regulators; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one such compound of the formula I and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.

Abstract: The present invention relates to novel oxadiazoles of the formula I or an N-oxide and/or their agriculturally useful salts and to their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, or to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi or the materials, plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of the formula I, or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; and to mixtures comprising at least one such compound and at least one further pesticidally active substance selected from the group consisting of herbicides, safeners, fungicides, insecticides, and plant growth regulators; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one such compound and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.

Abstract: A condensed heterocyclic compound represented by formula (II), in which Q represents a group represented by formula Q-1 or a group represented by formula Q-2, has an excellent control effect on arthropod pests (wherein, Z represents a nitrogen atom or CX2, X1 and X2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a C1-C6 chain hydrocarbon group optionally having one or more substituent selected from group B, a phenyl group optionally having one or more substituent selected from group C, or the like, A1 represents NH, NCH3, or the like, A2 represents a nitrogen atom or CH, A3 represents a nitrogen atom or CR4, R1 represents a C1-C5 perfluoroalkyl group or the like, and n, p, q, and r each independently represent 0, 1, or 2).

Abstract: An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.

Abstract: An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.

Abstract: An antimicrobial ceramic glazing composition contains one or more antimicrobial agents disposed therein. Methods for making and using the glazing composition are disclosed, as well as substrates having a fired antimicrobial glaze thereon. The antimicrobial agents comprise metallic oxides, with a subset of the disclosed combinations exhibiting synergistic effect in fired glazes.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention pertain to antimicrobial glass compositions, glasses and articles. The articles include a glass, which may include a glass phase and a cuprite phase. In other embodiments, the glasses include as plurality of Cu1+ ions, a degradable phase including B2O3, P2O5 and K2O and a durable phase including SiO2. Other embodiments include glasses having a plurality of Cu1+ ions disposed on the surface of the glass and in the glass network and/or the glass matrix. The article may also include a polymer. The glasses and articles disclosed herein exhibit a 2 log reduction or greater in a concentration of at least one of Staphylococcus aureus, Enterobacter aerogenes, Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria, Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, and E. coli, under the EPA Test Method for Efficacy of Copper Alloy as a Sanitizer testing conditions and under Modified JIS Z 2801 for Bacteria testing conditions.

Abstract: Hydrogen cyanamide (HyCyn) is a product derived from calcium cyanamide. Three decades ago HyCyn became commercially available as a plant growth regulator. Sprayed on dormant plants, it provides uniform bud-break. This present invention provides repeatable methods for using aqueous HyCyn, and other similar water-soluble low molecular weight cyanamide or nitrile containing compounds, as stand-alone biocides. Qualities include: safer delivery to field settings, fewer environmental impacts and predictable plant growth improvement. HyCyn with its systemic qualities can act as a fertilizer, desiccant, nematicide, fungicide, herbicide, growth regulator and an agent of enzyme inactivation. These biocidal and other effects appear to be a result of double or triple bonds connecting carbon with nitrogen, and therefore it is expected that other water-soluble low molecular weight compounds having carbon-nitrogen double or triple bonds can act similarly.

Abstract: The invention relates to pesticidal mixtures of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens and cis-jasmone in synergistically effective amounts; methods of application of the pesticidal mixtures for controlling pests; and plant propagation material comprising the pesticidal mixtures.

Abstract: Methods of controlling agricultural pests are disclosed. An aerated liquid mixture is formed from a composition containing a bacterial nutrient source, a nitrogen-containing compound, a phosphate-containing compound, a magnesium-containing compound, a buffer, a chitinase inducer, and at least one strain of bacteria that produces chitinase. The liquid mixture is administered to soil and plants, and acts as an organic biological pesticide.

Abstract: Food service equipment for effectively making a hollowed-out dough product from bread or another dough product is disclosed wherein the hollowed-out dough product can then be used in connection with the housing or containment of salads, soups, hamburgers, sandwiches, desserts, or the like. The hollowed-out dough products are formed from bread or other dough products as a result of being placed atop and compressed downwardly upon a pair of platens. Concomitantly with the formation of the bread or dough products into the desired hollowed-out dough products, the interior portions of the hollowed-out dough products are also toasted by means of the platens which are heated internally.

Abstract: A dough-based food product, an apparatus and method for production of the dough-based food product. A food product matrix to be foamed includes a proportion by weight of a starch-containing raw material and a proportion by weight of water. Gas that has been dissolved or is to be dissolved is introduced into the food product matrix to be foamed. The gas is dissolved under pressure in the food product matrix to be foamed. Gas bubbles are formed by expansion and increasing the volume with a resulting reduction in density of the dough as a result of bubble growth for formation of a foamed food product matrix of the food product to be produced. The foam is then stabilized. Gas is introduced into and dissolved in the aqueous component of the food product matrix to be foamed in a subcritical state below the critical point and at a pressure of 10 bar?p<critical pressure of the gas.

Abstract: The present invention generally relates to gluten-free food products. In particular, the present invention concerns gluten-free biscuits comprising a starch-containing material and Brassicaceae seed protein. Further aspects of the invention are a gluten-free biscuit dough and a process for manufacturing a gluten-free biscuit.

Abstract: The present invention relates to fillings for bakery and patisserie products, in particular fillings for cakes and the methods for preparing the fillings as well as the bakery and patisserie products, in particular cakes, comprising the fillings.

Abstract: A poultry stunning apparatus including a trough for containing water through which the poultry is carried for stunning. The apparatus also including an electrical control module configured to apply a DC current to the poultry at a voltage sufficient to stun the poultry and to apply AC current to the stunned poultry at a voltage and for a period of time sufficient to immobilize and relax the muscles of the stunned poultry, while at the same time avoiding or minimizing damage to the poultry tissue. The apparatus further including a stunning electrode positioned within the trough, the stunning electrode including a metal plate adapted and positioned within the trough to be contacted in a contact zone by the poultry as the poultry are carried along, the contact zone of the metal plate being substantially smooth and uninterrupted.

Abstract: The present disclosure includes various method, and apparatus embodiments for high speed rinsing solution application. One such apparatus embodiment includes a substructure having an elliptical track, a catheter delivery system including a plurality of carriages coupled to the track, wherein each of the carriages includes a respective catheter delivery mechanism, a carousel drive system configured to drive the carriages such that the carriages circulate about the substructure on the track, a rotary timing valve positioned above a central portion of the substructure, the rotary timing valve including a plurality of outlets each positioned at a respective radial position on the rotary timing valve, wherein each of the plurality of outlets is connected to a respective catheter delivery mechanism by a hose, and a hose table positioned between the rotary timing valve and the substructure and configured to support the hoses.

Abstract: A chicken wing cutter is provides a safe and sanitary way to cut chicken wings and fry them. The chicken wings cutter is a device that holds chicken wings in place and cut them without having to use a knife. It provides safety measure to cut chicken wings without the use of knives or machinery having to hold and touch the chicken. This will avoid contamination or carrying of such bacteria caused while handling poultry and avoid spills from frying. The device allows you to place the chicken in the cradles. Once secure in the cradles, the chicken cutter cut the chicken in precise pieces in preparation for cooking chicken wings in a fryer. The device has blades within the lid that retracts and closed and oval locked is secure the chicken is ready to cut then after placed on cradle for frying.

Abstract: The present invention relates to preservative compositions comprising at least two extracts selected from oak extract, grape seed extract and green tea extract. Said compositions are useful in the preservation of foods liable to lipid peroxidation.

Abstract: There is provided a plasma sterilization apparatus that permits plasma sterilization providing a uniform sterilization for even sterilization targets having various kinds of three-dimensional shape such as agricultural products, under mild conditions so as to prevent damage and quality deterioration of the targets. A plasma sterilization apparatus includes a voltage-applying unit that applies a voltage to a sterilization target having conductivity; a pair of electrodes that apply, in a discharged state, the voltage applied by said voltage-applying unit to the sterilization target via a dielectric; and a position changing unit that changes a relative position between the pair of electrodes and the sterilization target.

Abstract: Disclosed is a method for coating fruit to inhibit or prevent maturation and ripening of climacteric fruit during post-harvest storage and transport, a fruit item having a coating which inhibits or prevents maturation and ripening of the fruit item during post-harvest storage and transport, and a composition for coating fruit post-harvest to prevent or slow down maturation and ripening of climacteric fruit. The disclosure is in particular suitable for mangos, citrus fruit and bananas.

Abstract: Variants of chymosin with improved milk-clotting properties.

Abstract: A method of making a pressurized packaged liquid beverage including filling a container including a one-way valve with a liquid mixture including a base liquid and a gum; sealing the container; introducing a volume of gas through the one-way valve after sealing the container; and agitating the container. When the container is opened, the liquid mixture increases in volume and separates into a liquid phase and a drinkable foam phase, which may persist for an extended period of time. The base liquid includes milk, coffee, fruit juice, or mixtures thereof.

Abstract: A system and method for the continuous production of brown butter involves concentrating butter while retaining solids non-fat in the butter, and continuously transferring and heating the concentrated butter to cause the solids non-fat in the butter to react in a maillard reaction to form a brown butter product. The system may use one or more of a heating vessel, an evaporator and a reaction vessel to form the brown butter in the continuous process. A brown butter product derived from butter includes reacted solids non-fat particulates from a maillard reaction suspended by nascent fat crystals nucleated about the reacted solids non-fat particulates and by large fat crystal structures joined to the nascent fat crystals.

Abstract: Methods and systems for making a high-purity ?-lactalbumin composition are described. The composition may be made by providing a whey protein mixture, and adding an alkaline solution to the mixture to make the mixture alkaline and promote the aggregation of ß-lactoglobulin proteins. The alkaline whey protein mixture is filtered into a ß-LG aggregate composition and a ?-LA enriched composition. A final ?-lactalbumin enriched composition sourced from the ?-LA enriched composition is dried into the high-purity ?-lactalbumin composition (a powdered dairy composition) that is at least 70 wt. % ?-lactalbumin on a protein basis. A protease enzyme may optionally be added to the ?-LA enriched composition to form an enzymatically treated ?-LA enriched composition that becomes the source of the final ?-lactalbumin enriched composition.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for producing a coffee extract which comprises use of an enzyme having mannanase activity. The invention also relates to polypeptides having endo-beta-1,4-mannanase activity and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a kit configured for delivering a multi-layered beverage; wherein the kit comprises a coffee component for producing a dark layer, wherein the coffee component has a total solid content of less than 10% w/w, and a creamer component for producing a white layer, wherein the creamer component has a total solid content of at least % w/w, wherein the creamer comprises a protein, a fat and a carbohydrate, and wherein the fat content in the creamer is at most 10% w/w of the creamer composition.