Increasingly, companies are taking part in process improvement programmes, which brings about a growing need for employees to interpret and act on data representations. We have carried out case studies in a range of companies to identify the existence and need of what we call Techno-mathematical Literacies (TmL): functional mathematical knowledge mediated by tools and grounded in the context of...

Composite biscuit was made from breadfruit/wheat flour. Dehulled breadfruit was sorted, washed, sun dried, milled and sieved to get flour. The breadfruit/wheat flour was mixed in the ratio 0:100%, 10:90%, 20:80%, 30:70%, 40:60%, 50:50% and 60:40% respectively and used to produce biscuits. Proximate analysis, sensory and quality evaluations were carried out on the biscuits. The proximate composi...

Sucrose consumption in preschool or school children, or in adolescents is generally accepted as being promotive of dental caries. (Takeuchi, 1961; Yudkin, 1969; Bowen, 1978; Newbrun, 1979; Shaw, 1985). That this is no recent association has been illustrated by Shaw (1985) in his review of the relationship of diet to dental caries in which he quoted a question posed by Aristotle in 350 BC “Why d...

This paper presents a framework dedicated to support the acquisition of useful and usable scientific knowledge that can be transferred to industrialists. It exposes the seven corpora of knowledge (Initial data, Problem, Hypothesis, Tests, Results, Interpretation and Conclusion) necessary both to acquire and to structure relevant scientific knowledge. The framework is used in the domain of desig...

Sugar has multiple roles in baked products; competing for water and as such reducing starch gelatinisation gluten development, behaving a fluid during cooking, recrystallising on cooling; which influence properties aeration, texture mouthfeel. Partial replacement with inulin, can provide beneficial nutritional functional properties. This paper investigated the degree of polymerisation (DP) two ...

This paper analyzes the behavior of the Argentine biscuit market during 2003-06 to find out whether any important merger occurred in October 2004 (the Arcor/Bagley merger) had any discernible market power or cost reduction effects. This paper presents an econometric demand-and-supply model in which it treats the biscuits supplied by the main producers as different products. The results show tha...

Consumption of legumes is associated with a number of physiological and health benefits. Legume proteins complement very well those of cereals and are often used to produce gluten-free products. However, legume seeds often contain antinutritional compounds, such as phytate, galactooligosaccharides, phenolic compounds, lectins, enzyme inhibitors, whose presence could affect their nutritional val...

8–2–1 as the third group. The significant difference between the first group and the second group, or the 5–1 topology and the other N–1 topologies, suggests that the grading performance can be significantly reduced when the input dimension is too small. This is because that the important grading criteria is hidden too deeply in the input and is obscured by the other properties [19]. These resu...