Food safety has always been one of the major issues of our societies. Despite the technological advances, industrial developments, and broad education, millions of people throughout the world continue to suffer from foodborne ...

Sample pretreatment procedures are the most important steps prior to analysis. Accuracy and reliability of results are directly affected by these steps. An ideal pretreatment procedure should be simple, cost effective, ...

Heavy metals are the most common pollutants found in industrial effluents. Several chemical treatment methods are used to remove heavy metals from aquatic solutions. Recently, biosorption process which utilizes various ...

Geotourism can be considered as a part of natural area tourism and ecotourism, but is a specialized form of tourism in that the focus of attention is the geosite (Dowling and Newsome 2006). However, one of the most important ...

The amount of energy consumption in the residential buildings has a very significant share with nearly 30 percent in the total amount of energy consumption. Therefore, residential sector is identified in this chapter as ...

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Most people in the world eat the chicken egg, Gallus domesticas. Eggs are susceptible to contamination with pathogens due to their production from birds carrying huge bacterial load. Such contaminations can be either ...

Landslides have a significant portion of responsibility on the damages and losses caused by natural hazards such as earthquakes, floods, storms, and tsunamis all over the world. Thus, landslides and their consequences are ...

Our understanding of cancer pathways has been changed by the determination of noncoding transcripts in the human genome in recent years. miRNAs and pseudogenes are key players of the noncoding transcripts from the genome, ...

Endometriosis is a common condition that affects women during their reproductive years. Its diagnosis, although only confirmed by surgery, may be suspected by the presence of a number of symptoms. This review includes the ...