Aims In bakery products, quality attributes of the crust such as crispy texture and colour and of the crumb as softness and springiness are important attributes for consumer’s perception. These attributes mainly set up during the baking stage and are influenced by the baking conditions (oven temperature, steam injection...). Many physical and chemical changes occur to lead to a porous structure...

We show that the widely used parabolic approximation to the Equation of State (EOS) of asymmetric nuclear matter leads systematically to significantly higher core-crust transition densities and pressures. Using an EOS for neutron-rich nuclear matter constrained by the isospin diffusion data from heavy-ion reactions in the same sub-saturation density range as the neutron star crust, the density ...

In the inner crust of a neutron star, due to the high density and pressure, nuclei which are still present, are immersed in a neutron superfluid. One then expects that the dynamical properties of nuclei are significantly affected. In order to estimate the magnitude of the effect associated with the presence of a superfluid medium, we formulate the hydrodynamical approach to the nuclear dynamics...

Neoproterozoic gneisses at Meatiq and Hafafit in the Eastern Desert of Egypt give Rb–Sr and U–Pb zircon ages of 600–750 Ma. These gneisses are interpreted by different workers to represent deeper levels of juvenile Neoproterozoic crust or Archaean/Palaeoproterozoic crust that was remobilized during Neoproterozoic time. Geochemical and Sr–Nd isotope compositions for these gneisses reported here ...

Subducted lithosphere and crust are chem1cally d1stinct from amb1ent mantle, and some have hypoth.,sized that the result1ng anomdlous buoyancy may affect m1x1ng and, in particular, may CciUSe chem1cal heterogeneity topers ist. To explore th1s effect, two-dimensional convective mix1ng calculations have been carried out. Boundary cond1tions m1micking features of plate kinematics have been imposed...

We present the formalism and numerical results for torsional oscillations of relativistic stars endowed with a strong dipole magnetic field, assumed to be confined to the crust. In our approach, we focus on axisymmetric modes and neglect higher-order couplings induced by the magnetic field. We do a systematic search of parameter space by computing torsional mode frequencies for various values o...

A broad spectrum of variably altered igneous rocks with a wide range of grain sizes are compressed and heated over a wide range of pressure-temperature paths in subduction zones. Although experimental kinetic data cannot be extrapolated to predict the rates of blueschist and eclogite formation in nature, textural data from rocks indicate that transformation below temperatures of 150øC is minima...

Various neural network models were developed to establish the relationship between tin temperature profiles and bread quality. The best model was composed of 6 input neurons, 6 first hidden layer neurons, 4 second hidden layer neurons and 4 output neurons with Log-sigmoid transfer functions. During verification, the correlation coefficient and mean square error were 0.9356 and 53.9229 respectiv...