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S West

Publications and source records attributed to S West.

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PubMed1973

Improved yield of aflatoxin by incremental increases of temperature.

Increasing the initial temperature of the rice fermentation of Aspergillus parasiticus NRRL 2999 from 15 to 21 C after 24 h of incubation and then to 28 C after 48 h resulted in about a fourfold increase in total aflatoxin over the usual fermentation which is held constant at 28 C for 6 days. The percentage of aflatoxin B(1), the most toxic component, in the total aflatoxin was also increased.

Aflatoxins↗
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'Appears to have slept well': assessing sleep in an acute care setting.

Sleep disturbance is a common occurrence in the hospital environment where the patients' perceptions of their own sleep are rarely considered in the planning of care. This study aims to determine the difference between subjective (Verran/Snyder-Halpern Sleep Scale), objective (Patient's Sleep Behaviour Observational Tool) and physiological (Actigraph) assessments of a patients' single sleep event within an acute care setting by examining the variables Total Sleep, Midsleep Awakening and Sleep Latency. Results indicate no statistically significant difference between instruments for the assessment of total sleep. Midsleep awakening was of questionable value when assessed in the clinical environment. Sleep latency could be useful following further attention to defining the length and time of onset of the nurse observation period.

Acute Disease↗