Addition of Carrot Pomace to Enhance the Physical, Sensory, and Functional Properties of Beef Patties.

The global challenge of food waste necessitates innovative solutions, such as incorporating carrot pomace, a nutrient-rich by-product of carrot juice production, into beef patties to enhance their nutritional and functional properties. This study evaluated beef patties with carrot pomace added at 0%, 1.0%, 3.

Immersive Study Analyzer: Collaborative Immersive Analysis of Recorded Social VR Studies.

Virtual Reality (VR) has become an important tool for conducting behavioral studies in realistic, reproducible environments. In this paper, we present ISA, an Immersive Study Analyzer system designed for the comprehensive analysis of social VR studies. For in-depth analysis of participant behavior, ISA records all user actions, speech, and the contextual environment of social VR studies.

Reverse Correlation Characterizes More Complete Tinnitus Spectra in Patients.

We validate a recent reverse correlation approach to tinnitus characterization by applying it to individuals with clinically-diagnosed tinnitus. Two tinnitus patients assessed the subjective similarity of their non-tonal tinnitus percepts and random auditory stimuli. Regression of the responses onto the stimuli yielded reconstructions which were evaluated qualitatively by playing back resynthesized waveforms to the subjects and quantitatively by response prediction analysis.

Influence of Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors and Everolimus on TGFβ1 and TGF-β Receptor 2 in Squamous Cell Carcinoma Cells.

Background/aim: Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) plays a significant role in the formation of different cancer subtypes. There is evidence that TGF-β pathways promote cancerogenic cell characteristics but also have tumor-suppressor capabilities. The tyrosine kinase inhibitors nilotinib, dasatinib, erlotinib, gefitinib, and everolimus are approved as targeted therapies for several tumor entities, including head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC).