The objective of this study was to evaluate processing methods for frozen beef subprimals; the effects of freezing and thawing rates on tenderness, sensory properties, and retail display were evaluated. There were 6 treatments: fresh, never frozen 14 d wet aged (14D); fresh, never frozen 21 d wet aged (21D); blast frozen-fast thawed (BF); blast frozen-slow thawed (BS); conventionally frozen-fas...

The political purge in occupied Japan: implementation and effects Allied forces Japan had two main tasks: to punish eliminate from public life those found responsible for war crimes, democratise the country. One of tools used achieve these objectives was a large-scale targeted against pre-war military elite, members nationalist organisations, employees state administration media, educators busi...

This work builds on our prior results to develop novel control structure design principles for integrated plants featuring multiple time scale dynamics. Specifically, the concept of self-optimizing control can be used to identify the variables that must be controlled to achieve acceptable economic performance during plant operation. This approach does not, however, provide guidelines on control...

Meiosis in Saccharomyces yeast produces four haploid gametes that usually fuse with each other, an extreme form of self-fertilization among the products of a single meiosis known as automixis. The gametes signal to each other with sex pheromone. Better-quality gametes produce stronger signals and are preferred as mates. We suggest that the function of this signalling system is to enable mate ch...

OBJECTIVES We present the first clinical experience with intracoronary optical frequency domain imaging (OFDI) in human patients. BACKGROUND Intracoronary optical coherence tomography (OCT) is a catheter-based optical imaging modality that is capable of providing microscopic (approximately 7-microm axial resolution, approximately 30-microm transverse resolution), cross-sectional images of the...

Abstract At present, nitrogen production from air by pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is simulated almost exclusively at low product purity levels (< 99% N 2 ). However, with increasing global demand for highly purified gases provided energy-efficient separation processes the requirement either extensive experimental research in high-purity range or predictive computer simulations arises. Thi...

This paper reports on the fourth version of the Mixed Integer Programming Library. Since MIPLIB is to provide a concise set of challenging problems, it became necessary to purge instances that became too easy. We present an overview of the 27 new problems and statistical data for all 60 instances.

the n-hexane was sampled. This reduced the carry over almost completely for the more volatile benzene constituent (to 0.2% of the original concentration). There was not sufficient removal of the naphthalene and anthracene however, (to 1.6% and 4.7% respectively). The addition of a rinse vial containing pure mobile phase was then tried. The complete cycle was, therefore: sample; purge; rinse; pu...