Potential of Subcritical Water Hydrolysis to Valorize Low-Valued Ray-Finned Fish (Labeobarbus nedgia): Effects of Hydrolysis Temperature and Pressurization Agent.

Subcritical water (SCW) hydrolysis was applied to valorize the low-valued ray-finned fish (Labeobarbus nedgia) into valuable protein hydrolysates, employing N2 and CO2 as pressurization agents at varying temperatures (140, 160, 180, and 200 °C). The degree of hydrolysis (DH) and total free amino acid content increased with temperature for both pressurizing agents. The highest DH (54.5 ± 0.4%) and total free amino acid content (210 ± 1 mg/gprot) were observed at 200 °C when CO2 gas was used as the pressurizing agent. Predominantly, glycine and alanine were released for both pressurizing agents. The antioxidant activity, evaluated through three different assays, increased with temperature and was found to be the highest at 200 °C. This study illustrated the advantages of the intensified SCW technology by using CO2 as a pressurization agent in valorizing low-valued ray-finned fish (Labeobarbus nedgia), as animal residue rich in proteins, for the production of valuable protein hydrolysates with a high fraction of valuable free amino acids, which could offer potential applications as a functional ingredient in the food industry.

Valorization of brewer's spent grain by consecutive supercritical carbon dioxide extraction and enzymatic hydrolysis.

The double effect of supercritical carbon dioxide, sc-CO2, in a biorefinery concept applied to brewer's spent grain (BSG) was assessed in this work. Extraction conditions to remove and valorize the lipophilic fraction were studied (20-40 MPa and 40-80 °C) obtaining a maximum yield of 5.70 ± 0.07 g/100 gBSG at 80 °C and 40 MPa. High pressures and temperatures resulted in higher content of total phenolic and flavonoid compounds, as well as higher antioxidant capacity. It was observed an improvement of the enzymatic hydrolysis yield by cellulase in the sc-CO2 treated BSG compared to the non-treated. This improvement could be partially attributed to the removal of the lipid fraction and to morphological changes of BSG after sc-CO2. Based on this double benefit, sc-CO2 can play an important role on biomass valorization.

Weaving words for textile museums: the development of the linked SILKNOW thesaurus.

The cultural heritage domain in general and silk textiles, in particular, are characterized by large, rich and heterogeneous data sets. Silk heritage vocabulary comes from multiple sources that have been mixed up across time and space. This has led to the use of different terminology in specialized organizations in order to describe their artefacts. This makes data interoperability between independent catalogues very difficult. To address these issues, SILKNOW created a multilingual thesaurus related to silk textiles. It was carried out by experts in textile terminology and art historians and computationally implemented by experts in text mining, multi-/cross-linguality and semantic extraction from text. This paper presents the rationale behind the realization of this thesaurus.

Viabilidad y multiplicación de Listeria monocytogenes cepa murray frente a antimicrobianos de uso en medios selectivos / Viability and multiplication of Listeria monocytogenes strain Murray facing antimicrobial agents used in selective media

Se han efectuado estudios comparativos de velocidad de crecimiento, cosecha máxima y duración de la fase de adaptación de poblaciones de Listeria monocytogenes (CCMA 29454, ATCC 15313) a 37-C, en medios de cultivo líquidos conteniendo concentraciones variables de antimicrobianos con diferente espectro de acción. Concentraciones de 160microng/ml de ácido nalidíxico, 80microng/ml de ácido pipemédico, 40microng/ml de ácido oxolínico, 0,8U/ml de bacitracina y 200U/ml de nistatina, constituyen límites confiables que permiten la sobrevivencia y multiplicación de Listeria monocytogenes y ejercen una importante acción inhibitoria sobre el crecimiento de gran parte de la flora habitual de materiales normalmente sépticos. Es de importancia la potencial capacidad selectiva de diversas asociaciones de los agentes ensayados en la formulación de medios de cultivo destinados a un enriquecimiento de Listeria monocytogenes, que posibilite su aislamiento a partir de cultivos mixtos