Even as little as two decades ago, science writers could not assume that the word ‘gene’ was widely understood. It had to be defined and discussed. Today, stories about genes for various traits come so thick and fast that journalists no longer need to pause and explain what genes are. Awareness of material inheritance is now widespread. The only problem is that everyday parlance has simplified ...

Parsing a Spice netlist is the first step of all circuit simulation programs. This part is usually done by low-level coding techniques in C or Fortran language. The aim of this paper is to show the usefulness of functional programming techniques to the needs of scientific computing. Key-Words: Spice Netlist, Parsing, Scanning, Functional Language.

six different composite packaging materials were tested with the trades’ practice of polythene bags in storing smoked catfish for a period of six months. the thickness of the packaging materials ranges from 0.23 to 046 mm with water and oil absorption rates of the packaging materials varies from 0.23 to 10.00 and 0.28 to 10.857 glcm2/mm respectively. the impact resistance weight also varies fro...

Spatial processing of sparse, irregular floating-point computation using a single FPGA enables up to an order of magnitude speedup (mean 2.8× speedup) over a conventional microprocessor for the SPICE circuit simulator. We deliver this speedup using a hybrid parallel architecture that spatially implements the heterogeneous forms of parallelism available in SPICE. We decompose SPICE into its thre...

The antifungal effect of twenty powdered spice plants and their extracts at concentrations of 2, 4, 8 and 1, 3, 6%, respectively was evaluated in relation to the radial mycelial growth of various soilborne fungi causing damping-off disease. The spice powder or extract were added to the culture medium PDA to obtain the proposed concentrations. Concentration of 8% of powdered spices and 6% of the...

Food packaging is defined as a co-ordinated system of preparing food for transport, distribution, storage, retailing, and end-use to satisfy the ultimate consumer with optimal cost (Coles et al., 2003). Food packaging is an essential part of modern society; commercially processed food could not be handled and distributed safely and efficiently without packaging. The World Packaging Organization...

This study examined the nutritional properties and industrial application of African locust bean properly known as Iru in southwest Nigeria. Locust was processed into food condiment which is used a spice that gives an meal pleasant flavor. The production process includes boiling for 12 hours, soaking seeds water, de-hulling, another 6 hours ferment 4 days. Proximate analysis mineral content (Pa...

Purpose – This paper seeks to discuss the need to understand consumer perceptions in order to correctly design product packing and to achieve the desired position in the minds of consumers. Design/methodology/approach – Data collection was divided into two phases. The first, (based on designers’ opinions), to determine the key graphic variables in the design of packaging. The second, (based on ...

the essential oil from the seeds of cuminum cyminum l. was isolated by hydrodistillation method and the chemical composition was determined by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (gc/ms). the yield of the oil was found to be 3.0% (on dry weight basis). a total of twenty six components, representing 96.7% of the oil were identified. cuminaldehyde (49.4%), p-cymene (17.4%), b-pinene (6.3%), a-ter...

Modeling of memristor devices is essential for memristor based circuit and system design. This chapter presents a review of existing memristor modeling techniques and provides simulations that compare several existing models to published memristor characterization data. A discussion of existing models is presented that explains how the equations of each relate to physical device behaviors. The ...