Background: Chestnut honey plays a positive role in strengthening the immune system as it contains vitamins, mineral, and antioxidant. It moreover has both antibacterial and antiviral properties as well.
Objectives: This study aimed to examine how people consume chestnut honey as a form of traditional medicine, and how it might protect them from COVID-19.
Methods: This study was carried out on 177 people (who had been snowball sampled) from a province in Turkey where chestnut honey is widely produced. The data was collected using a twenty open/closed-question online questionnaire form that asked the participants about their socio-demographic details, about how they consume chestnut honey consumption, and about COVID-19.
Results: Forty one point eight (41.8%) per-cent of the participants reported that they used chestnut honey to protect themselves against COVID-19, 40.7% of them believed that chestnut honey helped make them immune towards COVID-19, and 37.3% of them felt that chestnut honey could treat COVID-19. However, there was no significant relationship between the participants consuming chestnut honey and their either being tested for COVID-19 (p> 0.05, χ²: 1.080) or testing positive for COVID-19 (p> 0.05, χ²: 0.793).
Conclusions: This study revealed that chestnut honey is a widely used remedy in Turkey for treating different health problems and for maintaining health. In contrast, it also demonstrated that consuming chestnut honey has no effect on protecting the participants from COVID-19.
The basis of the textile industry is yarn production. Many processes are applied to the yarn during the production phase. The last and most important of these processes is the drying process. There are various drying methods for the drying process and RF-Satalam dryers are discussed in this study. There are electrodes above and below the conveyor belt in these dryers. With the help of these electrodes, the water in the wet bobbin is evaporated by friction force and removed from the yarn. All process steps such as belt speed, drying parameters, electrode position of the machine determined by the machine operator have been automated with the developed system. With the barcode read to the system, it brings the data from the ERP database to the PLC system, where the raw weight of the wet coil is calculated and the tape speed and electrode level are determined.
Chenille yarn has an increasing share of use in the upholstery fabric sector recently. To have an important place in chenille yarn production in the world, it has become necessary for manufacturers to improve the quality, durability, and performance of their products and to carry out innovative studies in this field. Increasing the abrasion resistance of the yarns that form the basis of upholstery fabrics will significantly affect the service life performance. In this study, two raw materials selected with different production parameters were examined. These raw materials are determined as viscose and polyester, which are mostly used for chenille yarn in the production facility. The parameters covered in this study are determined and evaluated as the fixed/unfixed state of the yarn, the state of having different twist values, and the presence or absence of melted yarn added to ensure better adhesion of the pile and binder yarn with each other. In this direction, to test the abrasion resistance of the yarns produced from 6 polyester raw materials and 6 viscose raw materials with different properties, they are woven into fabrics by weaving on a 65-density jacquard loom. Each fabricated sample is realized by Martindale test. This test is realized to see the result of friction force and impact effect on the fabric surface. Also, it is aimed to determine the resistance of the samples against pilling and surface change. Based on the results, different parameters affecting the abrasion resistance of upholstery fabrics obtained from chenille yarn were interpreted and it was aimed to be a pioneering study in this field.
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