This paper presents an approach to annotation that BAE Systems has employed in the DARPA GALE Phase 2 Distillation evaluation. The purpose of the GALE Distillation evaluation is to quantify the amount of relevant and non-redundant information a distillation engine is able to produce in response to a specific, formatted query; and to compare that amount of information to the amount of informatio...

This study aimed to develop meatless nuggets (MN) using different substitutions of chickpea and oyster mushrooms as key ingredients. Four which were control (100:0), MN70 (70:30), MN40 (40:60), MN10 (10:90) with ratios boiled mushroom formulated in this study. A significantly (p<0.05) higher carbohydrate, protein, fat, crude fiber contents observed the increasing substitution. Nuggets prepar...

The purpose of this paper was to evaluate the shelf-life of chitosan and cinnamon oil coated chicken meat nuggets under refrigeration conditions. Three types of coated nuggets were developed viz., Meat coated with Chitosan (1%) and Cinnamon oil (0.05%) (T1), direct addition of Chitosan and Cinnamon oil in emulsion (T2) and nuggets dipped in Chitosan and Cinnamon oil (T3) and were aerobically pa...

This compendium of ideas on using the retrospective approach to mine for GIS nuggets addresses two needs: 1) It is a means to involve many more people in the GIS retrospective program; 2) It creates an initial compilation of ideas which directly contribute to mining the various literatures – corporate/institutional-private; corporate/institutional-public; learned legal; oversight agency; popula...

This paper describes a short-amplicon-based TaqMan probe quantitative real-time PCR (qPCR) assay for the quantitative detection of canine meat in chicken nuggets, which are very popular across the world, including Malaysia. The assay targeted a 100-bp fragment of canine cytb gene using a canine-specific primer and TaqMan probe. Specificity against 10 different animals and plants species demonst...

In climatology, spatial representativeness can be measured as the degree to which an instrumental temperature record resolves the climatic variability across an area. Some station records may disproportionately resolve characteristics of their immediate surroundings and, therefore, have less utility in representing climate (or weather) over larger spatial scales. To evaluate spatial representat...

Optimally designed functional foods are considered the most important part of a balanced and healthy diet. Goat meat nuggets, an otherwise option, packed with undesirable saturated unsaturated fats. The present work suggests optimal formulation to reduce surplus fat content goat nuggets by adding two optimally calculated ingredients, namely, fenugreek leaves (FL) psyllium husk (PH). Response su...

Resistance spot welding is an important manufacturing process in the automotive industry for assembling bodies. The quality and strength of the welds and, by extension, the body is mainly defined by the quality of the weld nuggets. The most effective parameters in this process are sheet material, geometry of electrodes, electrode force, current intensity, welding time and sheet thickness. The p...

Current blast furnace technology is a two-stage ironmaking process that requires that iron ore concentrate first be formed into pellets, fired at 1260°C, cooled, transported to the blast furnace, and then re-heated to approximately 1500°C to produce pig iron. This heating, cooling, and then reheating wastes a great deal of energy, which would be saved if the ironmaking process had only a single...