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...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is a noninvasive imaging method widely used in medical diagnosis. Data in MRI are obtained line-by-line within the K-space, where there are usually a great number of such lines. For this reason, magnetic resonance imaging is slow. MRI can be accelerated through several methods such as parallel imaging and compressed sensing, where a fraction of the K-space lines...

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...

Background Traditional physicians in Sri Lanka and India use extracts from the plant Salacia reticulata, or Kothala Himbutu (KH) to treat diabetes. The effect of a KH biscuit, taken as snack, on glycemic control was investigated patients with type 2 Methodology This triple-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, two-period, two-sequence, crossover study conducted Internal Medical Clinic, Teachin...

in this study, compressed poplar wood was used to improve the strengths of wooden chairs. these chairs were compared to chairs made from uncompressed poplar wood. wooden chairs were assembled with two types of traditional joints including mortise and tenon and wooden pins joints. the ultimate force was applied from the front to the back of the seat, were recorded according to american library a...