Background: Clove bud oil (CBO) and oleoresin rosemary (ORM) possess antioxidant antibacterial properties are widely used as natural preservatives in meat products. The present study was conducted with the objective of evaluating essential oils CBO ORM a hurdle for extending shelf life chicken patties at ambient temperature storage. Methods: viz. 0.05% level (T1) 0.1% (T2) their combination (CB...

This paper describes a preliminary cost estimate, prepared by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), of President Clinton's 1999 prescription drug benefit proposal. The CBO estimated that the new benefit would increase net Medicare outlays by $136 billion between 2002 and 2009, although these estimates are highly uncertain. Because the proposal included an annual cap on the amount of the benefi...

Diamond is not only a free standing highly transparent window but also a promising carrier confinement layer for InN based devices, yet little is known of the band offsets in InN/diamond system. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy was used to measure the energy discontinuity in the valence band offset (VBO) of InN/diamond heterostructure. The value of VBO was determined to be 0.39 ± 0.08 eV and a ...

This paper presents a novel efficient meta-heuristic optimization algorithm called Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO), for optimization. This algorithm is based on one-dimensional collisions between bodies, with each agent solution being considered as an object or body with mass. After a collision of two moving bodies having specified masses and velocities, these bodies are separated with new ...

This paper is concerned with the large particle limit for consensus-based optimization (CBO), which was postulated in pioneering works by Carrillo, Pinnau, Totzeck and many others. In order to solve this open problem, we adapt a compactness argument first proving tightness of empirical measures { μ N } ≥ 2 $$ {\left\{{\mu}^N\right\}}_{N\ge 2} associated system then verifying that time m...

The labor markets have recovered to the level of activity before the Great Recession. In May 2016, the unemployment rate was 4.7%, the same rate as in November 2007, the last month before the official start date of the Recession. In contrast, output has not converged to the prerecession trend. Figure 1 plots the evolution of the log-level of output (in black) together with the level of potentia...

This paper presents a program, called In-Close2, that is a high performance realisation of the Close-by-One (CbO) algorithm. The design of In-Close2 is discussed and some new optimisation and data preprocessing techniques are presented. The performance of In-Close2 is favourably compared with another contemporary CbO variant called FCbO. An application of In-Close2 is given, using minimum suppo...

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy has been used to measure the valence band offset of the InN/BaTiO3 heterojunction. It is found that a type-I band alignment forms at the interface. The valence band offset (VBO) and conduction band offset (CBO) are determined to be 2.25 ± 0.09 and 0.15 ± 0.09 eV, respectively. The experimental VBO data is well consistent with the value that comes from transitivi...

The selective photocatalytic oxidation of organic substances is today considered one the green techniques to synthesize important starting materials in different technological applications. This work reports an efficient, simple and cheap strategy for synthesis a new CuBi2O4-TiO2 (CBO/TiO2) heterosystem at room temperature. prepared powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV–Vis ...

Colliding Bodies Optimization (CBO) is a population-based metaheuristic algorithm that complies physics laws of momentum and energy. Due to the stagnation susceptibility of CBO by premature convergence and falling into local optima, some meritorious methodologies based on Sine Cosine Algorithm and a mutation operator were considered to mitigate the shortcomings mentioned earlier. Sine Cosine Al...