Publications

In this study, a multi-component analytical method for the detection of pesticide residues in chilli and Sichuan pepper by high performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole time of flight mass spectrometry (LC-Q-TOF/MS) was developed and validated. The sample preparation is based on an extraction step with acetonitrile followed by a cleanup step using primary secondary amine, C18, graphitized carbon black and anhydrous magnesium ...

In this work, plant-based shakes were prepared (5% oil, 6% protein, 1% lecithin, 88% water) (w/w) using two processing techniques (i) only mixing versus (ii) mixing followed by high pressure homogenisation, as well as two processing sequences (i) adding all ingredients together versus (ii) stepwise addition of ingredients. Shakes only mixed consisted of large, irregular particles (1–100 µm). Eventually, this resulted in a relatively low lipid ...

Pumpkin juice with high carotenoid content can be attractive natural alternative for artificial food colourants. We evaluated the impact of processing treatments on aqueous carotenoid extraction from pumpkins, aiming to enhance carotenoid transfer into the juice fraction. Crushed whole pumpkins were processed by high pressure homogenization (HPH) for mechanical cell disruption, by enzymatic treatment for cell wall polysaccharide degradation or ...

The concept of patient blood management (PBM) was introduced by the World Health Organization in 2011 and is defined as a "patient-focused, evidence-based and systematic approach for optimizing the management of patients and transfusion of blood products to ensure high quality and effective patient care". Patient blood management is a multimodal approach based on three pillars: optimization of blood mass, minimization of blood loss and ...

High performance work systems (HPWS) have typically been shown to positively influence employee attitudes and well-being. Research in the realm of HPWS has, in this respect, established a clear connection between these systems and employee engagement through organizationaljustice. In this study, we analyzed if being bullied affects this relationship. Using reasoning fromAffective Events Theory (AET), we expected that the positive association ...

BACKGROUND: Health care records provide large amounts of data with real-world and longitudinal aspects, which is advantageous for predictive analyses and improvements in personalized medicine. Text-based records are a main source of information in mental health. Therefore, application of text mining to the electronic health records - especially mental state examination - is a key approach for detection of psychiatric disease phenotypes that ...

With the increase in antimicrobial resistance, fast reporting of antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) results is becoming increasingly important. EUCAST developed a method for rapid AST (RAST) directly from the broth of positive blood cultures (BC). Inhibition zones are read after 4, 6, and 8 h, with specific breakpoints per time point. We evaluated the RAST method based on EUCAST disk diffusion methodology with inoculation of BC broth ...