Odour-baited technologies are increasingly considered for effective monitoring of mosquito populations and for the evaluation of vector control interventions. The BG-Malaria trap (BGM), which is an upside-down variant of the widely used BG-Sentinel trap (BGS), has been demonstrated to be effective to sample the Brazilian malaria vector, Anopheles darlingi. We evaluated the BGM as an improved me...

The objective of this study was to work out different blends of oils amongst rice bran oil (RBO), soybean oil (SBO), and mustard oil (MO) to obtain a unique blend of oil having better shelf life. Further, in present work, the effect of synthetic antioxidant such as butylated-hydroxyanisol (BHA), butylhydroxyltoluene (BHT) and t-butyl-hydroxyquinone (TBHQ) were also evaluated by adding upto reco...

Field studies were conducted from 1992 to 1996 to select the most effective sex pheromone blend for mating disruption of the obliquebanded leafroller, Choristoneura rosaceana (Harris), in tree fruit orchards in Washington. Dispensers loaded with a 2-component pheromone blend, (Z)-1l-tetradecen-1-yl (Zll-14:0Ac) and (E)-1l-tetradecen-1-yl (Ell-14:0Ac), a 3-component blend that included the addit...

in this work, ternary polymer blends based on polypropylene (pp)/ polyethylene terephthalate (pet) /poly(styrene-b (ethylene-co-butylene)-b-styrene) (sebs) triblock copolymer and a reactive maleic anhydride grafted sebs (sebs-g-mah) at various compositions were prepared by co-rotating twin screw extruder. the effects of pet, sebs and sebs-g-mah compatibilizer on morphology of the blends were ex...

linear low density polyethylene (lldpe) was blended with esterified styrene-maleic anhydride (esma) and its physical and mechanical properties were studied. styrene-maleic anhydride (sma) copolymer was synthesized by precipitation reaction. then, sma was esterified by 1-decanol in methylethyl ketone solvent. from the ftir spectrum of esma it is evident that the corresponding peaks of anhydride ...

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Studies were conducted to evaluate the effects of soy protein concentrate (SPC) and Xanthan gum (X) on physical properties of surimi prepared from Silver carp (Hypophthalmichthys molitrix) using various amount of soy protein concentrate (0, 5 and 10%) and xanthan gum (0, 0.25 and 0.5%) in fish paste during 3 months of frozen storage at -18ºC. Results obtained from folding test showed that the g...

introduction:packaging is an important factor in food industry and is dominated by petroleum-derived polymers. therefore, the amount of research involving the production and characterization of biodegradable films has increased substantially, mainly due to interest in minimizing the ecological impact caused by the use of synthetic packaging materials. several biopolymers have been exploited to ...

This paper presents an implicit function fields based approach for the extrusion of 2-dimensional profiles. According to the fields used, the extrusion follows an implicit object shape or performs the transition between combined primitives. The 1-dimensional polynomial spline properties allow the point-by-point control of the profile. Used on the transition of combined primitives, free form fun...