The effects of rice harvest moisture content (HMC) on pasting properties were investigated. One medium-grain and nine long-grain rice varieties were plot combine harvested at different intervals from three locations in 2002. Rough rice samples were dried and milled under controlled conditions, the head rice yield was recorded, and the rice flour was analyzed for pasting properties. The peak vis...

adverse environmental storage conditions including high temperature and relative humidity could affect seed quality. the objective of this investigation was to quantify relationship between temperatures and seed moisture on seed deterioration and determination viability constants in sorghum. four storage temperatures (5, 15, 25 and 35oc) and three moister content levels (6, 10 and 14%) were use...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the sensitivity of Campomanesia adamantium seeds to desiccation by drying in activated silica gel (fast) and under laboratory conditions (slow). To assess the sensitivity of the seeds to desiccation, we used drying with silica gel and drying under laboratory conditions (25 °C), in order to obtain seeds with moisture content of 45, 35, 30, 25, 20, 15, 10 and...

Fuel load and fuel moisture content are crucial parameters in estimating bushfire risk. However, current measures of these parameters are not spatially distributed within fire districts; the district-level indices are derived from pointbased estimates at sparsely located stations. In addition, they are based on meteorological inputs alone, rather than observations, and are the major sources of ...

The aim of the study was to compare the effects of two different salting procedures on salt uptake, protein and moisture content, water activity (aw) weight yield, colour and quality of herring fillets. One group of herring fillets was brined with 20% brine solution for one day before dry salting while another group was dry salted only. After 27 days of salting, the fillets were desalted. Sampl...

this study was conducted to investigate some moisture-dependent engineering properties of russian olive fruit including fruit dimensions, one thousand seed mass, surface area, sphericity, bulk and true density, angle of sliding and static friction coefficient against different surfaces. the physical properties of russian olive fruit were evaluated as a function of moisture content in the range ...

The test panels obtained from Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Eastern beech (Fagus orientalis L.) were initially adjusted to have 8%, 10%, and 12% moisture content in this study. One-component semimatte and two-component water borne varnishes were applied on the surfaces in order to investigate the effect of the type and the moisture content of the wood on the hardness and the gloss values...

Accurate determination of the moisture (water) content in individual feed ingredients and mixed feeds is critical throughout the feed industry. Most analytical methods used to determine apparent water content of feedstuffs are empirical, estimating water by evaporation and loss of weight on drying (oven drying methods). These methods differ greatly in effectiveness, resulting in bias. Bias asso...

Spectral analysis is widely used for moisture determination in food. However, some types of food being composed of a number of different chemical constituents pose problems for accurate measurement of moisture due to shifts of peak spectral response and changes in peak spectral responses in the absorption bands. We investigate specific changes in spectral response to point out the spectral band...