Aprevious chapter addressed the general procedure for conducting a laboratory milling analysis and factors that impact the measure­ ment of milling yield, specifically milled rice yield (MRY) and head rice yield (HRY). These factors include the rice sample moisture content, temperature and milling ease, as well as laboratory mill settings and the duration for which the rice is milled. The impac...

Purpose — Municipalities commonly ask the public to give input by answering questions about their preferences. There is some belief that input enhances the public’s confidence in government. The purpose of this paper is to examine whether different types of input activities (obtained by phone or online surveys, or via face-to-face engagements) differentially impact confidence. Design/methodolog...

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The aim of this review is to give an overview of the clinical circumstances presenting before lung transplant that may have negative repercussions on the long and short-term prognosis of the transplant. Methods for screening and diagnosis of common comorbidities with negative impact on the prognosis of the transplant are proposed, both for pulmonary and extrapulmonary diseases, and measures aim...

Organizations and monitoring agencies continue to express concern over software piracy because of the ethical, legal and financial implications of noncompliance. This study focuses on how software license noncompliance is actually a factor in software piracy. Many organizations use a variety of software tools distributed over their workforce and tracking license compliance for turnover, upgrade...

Cavitation associated with the impact of a sphere on a flat surface is investigated using high-speed photography. The sphere, of diameter 15 or 45 mm and made from Ertacetal or stainless steel, was fully submerged and accelerated using a spring-loaded mechanism to achieve Reynolds numbers based on impact velocity and sphere radius of up to 7.2×10. The static pressure and impact velocity were va...

Drug development continues to be expensive, time consuming, and ineffi cient, while pharmacotherapy is often practiced at suboptimal levels of performance (1–3). This trend has not waned despite the fact that massive amounts of drug data are obtained each year. Within these massive amounts of data, knowledge that would improve drug development and pharmacotherapy lays hidden and undiscovered. T...

The membrane-bound transcription factor ATF6α plays a cytoprotective role in the unfolded protein response (UPR), required for cells to survive ER stress. Activation of ATF6α promotes cell survival in cancer models. We used cell-based screens to discover and develop Ceapins, a class of pyrazole amides, that block ATF6α signaling in response to ER stress. Ceapins sensitize cells to ER stress wit...