Clinical Outcomes after Surgical Resection Combined with Brachytherapy for Uveal Melanomas.

Currently, brachytherapy is the most commonly used therapeutic approach for uveal melanomas. Surgical resection by means of endoresection or exoresection is an alternative approach. The present report recounts our experience over 15 years in the treatment of uveal melanoma using a combined approach of resection surgery with brachytherapy.

Role of commercial enzymes in wine production: a critical review of recent research.

Purified enzymes of microbial origin are applied in the beverage industry since decades because of their ability to enhance products and processes with minimal side effects and low costs. Commercial enzymes are widely used during different wine making steps providing a broad range of effects, such as to maximise juice yield, improve aroma compounds, flavour enhancement, colour extraction in red wines, and contribute in the removal of dissolved unwanted colloidal particles and pectin substances during wine stabilization and filtration. This review presents a study of recent advances in the application of commercial enzymes in the wine making of red, white and sweet wines that have been made in essentially the last 13 years (2005-2018).

School feeding, moving from practice to policy: reflections on building sustainable monitoring and evaluation systems.

Objective: To provide an overview of the status of monitoring and evaluation (M&E) of school feeding across sub-Saharan Africa and to reflect on the experience on strengthening M&E systems to influence policy making in low-income countries.

Design: Literature review on the M&E of school feeding programmes as well as data from World Food Programme surveys.

Setting: Sub-Saharan Africa.

Ochratoxin A production in aniseed-based media by selected fungal strains and in anise fruits (Pimpinella anisum L.).

The growth conditions and ochratoxin A (OTA) production of Aspergillus strains were studied in aniseed (Pimpinella anisum L.)-based media. The results showed that methanol/NaHCO3 (50:50, v/v) mixture for extraction and competitive direct ELISA analytical method are capable of detecting low OTA concentrations in this raw material, which were confirmed by HPLC with fluorescence detection (R (2) = 0.

School feeding: outcomes and costs.

Background: School-feeding programs are popular development assistance programs in developing countries but have previously had few sound, empirical analyses of their effectiveness and costs.

Objective: The goals of this study were to provide a realistic estimate of the costs of school feeding and combine these estimates with outcome information to obtain the cost per outcome.

Methods: Cost studies were conducted in three African countries by reviewing school-feeding costs provided by the World Food Programme and interviewing stakeholders in ministries of education and in the community.