Consumer acceptance and willingness to pay for three nonconventional attributes associated with six processed blueberry products was examined through an in-store conjoint experiment survey. Both credence and experience attributes were considered, including whether the products were produced locally, and whether they were organic or sugar-free. The results indicate heterogeneity in consumer pref...

We have studied the electronic and magnetic properties of Fe-Pt, CoPt and Ni-Pt alloy systems in ordered and disordered phases. The influence of various exchange-correlation functionals on values of equilibrium lattice parameters and magnetic moments in ordered Fe-Pt, Co-Pt and Ni-Pt alloys have been studied using linearized muffin-tin orbital method. The electronic structure calculations for t...

Polarized x-ray absorption near edge structure ~XANES! spectra at both the Cu and Ge K edges of CuGeO3 are measured and calculated relying on the real-space multiple-scattering formalism within a one-electron approach. The polarization components are resolved not only in the unit cell coordinate system («i a , «i b , «i c) but also in a local frame attached to the nearest neighborhood of the ph...

Multiple-Scattering Theory Beyond The MutTm-Tin Approximation J. Molenaar Mathematics Consulting Department Katholieke Universiteit Toernooiveld 6525 ED Nijmegen We present a new derivation of multiple-scattering theory as applied in solid state physics. The present approach is a generalization of the well-known Korringa, Kohn and Rostoker (KKR) formalism and holds also in the case of overlappi...

It is expected that personal devices should be more intellecutual and reliable presence for the user in the ubiquitous computing environment. Context awareness is significant ability to realize such expectation, however, it has not been enough discussed that what type of sensors are effecient and context are acquirable in the existing research. We have developed Muffin which has 15 sensors and ...

Muffins are sweet, high-calorie baked products characterised by good taste and soft spongy texture. Egg is one of the main ingredients that play a pivotal role in maintaining nutritional and physical properties. Although egg possesses excellent functional properties the presence of high cholesterol, risk of allergies by egg protein (avidin) and religious taboos associated with its consumption l...

We have derived orbital basis sets from scattering theory. They are expressed as polynomial approximations to the energy dependence of a set of partial waves, in quantized form. The corresponding matrices, as well as the Hamiltonian and overlap matrices, are specified by the values on the energy mesh of the screened resolvent and its first energy derivative. These orbitals are a generalization ...