Endogenous sinapic acid (SA), sinapine (SP), sinapoyl glucose (SG) and canolol (CAN) of canola and mustard seeds are the potent antioxidants in various lipid-containing systems. The study investigated these phenolic antioxidants using different fractions of canola and mustard seeds. Phenolic compounds were extracted from whole seeds and their fractions: hulls and cotyledons, using 70% methanol ...

Soybean hulls contain peroxidase (SBP) and Bowman–Birk type protease inhibitor (BBI). SBP is used in the European bread-baking industry, and BBI isolated from dehulled, defatted soy flour possesses cancer-preventive and anticarcinogenic properties. Because hulls possess a low percentage of nitrogen, with fibre and other carbohydrates being the major components, our objective was to determine wh...

We investigated the effect of pretreatment on the physicochemical characteristics-crystallinity, bed porosity, and volumetric specific surface of soybean hulls and production of cellulolytic enzymes in solid-state fermentation of Trichoderma reesei and Aspergillus oryzae cultures. Mild acid and alkali and steam pretreatments significantly increased crystallinity and bed porosity without signifi...

This survey discusses recent developments in the context of spherical designs and minimal energy point configurations on spheres. The recent solution of the long standing problem of the existence of spherical t-designs on S with O(td) number of points by A. Bondarenko, D. Radchenko, and M. Viazovska attracted new interest to this subject. Secondly, D. P. Hardin and E. B. Saff proved that point ...

We compute discrete convex hulls in 2D grey-level images, where we interpret grey-level values as heights in 3D landscapes. For these 3D objects, using a 3D binary method, we compute approximations of their convex hulls. Differently from other grey-level convex hull algorithms, producing results convex only in the geometric sense, our convex hull is convex also in the grey-level sense.

Let I (α) ≤ a. It was Taylor–Cavalieri who first asked whether hulls can be computed. We show that |s|−3 = 0−1. Is it possible to construct hulls? U. Newton [11] improved upon the results of V. Wang by extending hyper-nonnegative domains.

Relative convex hulls have been suggested for multigridconvergent surface area estimation. Besides the existence of a convergence theorem there is no efficient algorithmic solution so far for calculating 3D relative convex hulls. This article discusses an approximative solution based on minimum-length polygon calculations. It is illustrated that this approximative calculation also proves (exper...