Parkia platycephala Benth. (Leguminosae--Mimosoideae), popularly known as "visgueira", fava bean tree or "fava-de-bolota", is widely found in the Northern and Northeastern regions of Brazil. Its pods are used as cattle food supplement in the drought period. Compounds with a gastroprotective activity were obtained from the genus Parkia. Therefore, this study aimed at investigating the gastroprot...

This work reports on two courses for computer scientists. The first is a graduate course on modeling and simulation and the second is a course on component based software engineering. For both of these courses we principally use the same basis, that is, the Java Beans component technology and the DEVS system theory formalism for discrete event simulation. However, in the two coursed, we pursue ...

Beans require adequate amounts of all essential plant nutrients for optimum growth but only a few nutrients are documented to be needed for southern Idaho soils. These nutrients include phosphorus (P), nitrogen (N), zinc (Zn), potassium (K), sulfur (S), and to a much less extent B, Cu, Mn and Fe. University of Idaho Agricultural Experiment Station research as well as research from throughout th...

Cocoa beans from several types of post harvest treatments were processed into cocoa butter, cocoa powder and chocolate spread using traditional processing techniques. OTA was analyzed in two hundred and sixteen (216) samples of cocoa and cocoa derived products using HPLC with fluorimetric detection. It was found that OTA content in cocoa nibs depended only on the state of cocoa pod and the time...

Ham and Sandstedt (2) and, subsequently, others have shown that there is a trypsin inhibitor in soy beans and other legumes which inhibits the growth of certain animals. At first it was believed that the components of beans which alter the nutritive value of proteins exert growth inhibition by their ability to inhibit proteolysis in the gastrointestinal tract. Recently Klose and associates (3) ...

The effect of feeding velvet bean (Mucuna pruriens L.) meal on the performance and lipid profile in broilers was investigated. Fourteen days old 200 broiler chicks were randomly allocated to five dietary treatments in a completely randomized design and feeding was continued for four weeks. Maize and soybean meal based control feed, and four test diets produced from the control feed by incorpora...

Good quality cocoa beans are well studied and known as rich source of natural polyphenols. On the contrary, little research has been done regarding polyphenol extracts (PE) from low quality cocoa beans i.e. partially fermented dry cocoa beans (PFDCB) and unfermented dry cocoa beans (UFDCB). The following research was carried out to study the antioxidant, antibacterial, and food colouring proper...

Legumes, especially beans are considered an important and inexpensive source of protein, dietaiy fiber, vitamins, essential minerals (Fe, Zn, Ca, etc) and bioactive compounds such as folates, saponins, and phenolics, in many developed and developing countries. In addition, beans are very low in sodium, cholesterol, and saturated fatty acids but rich in unsaturated fatty acids such as linoleic a...