In this study the chemical composition and iron bioavailability of hull and hull-less soybean flour from the new cultivar UFVTN 105AP was evaluated. The hemoglobin depletion-repletion method was used in Wistar rats. Soybean hull flour presented 37% more total dietary fiber and higher content of iron than hull-less soybean flour. The phytate:iron molar ratio, however, was 2-fold lower in the soy...

Numerous planning models within the chemical, petroleum, and process industries involve coordinating the movement of raw materials in a distribution network so that they can be blended into final products. The uncapacitated fixed-charge transportation problem with blending (FCTPwB) studied in this paper captures a core structure encountered in many of these environments. We model the FCTPwB as ...

A complex matrix A is ray-nonsingular if det(X 0 A) f 0 for every matrix X with positive entries. A sufficient condition for ray nonsingularity is that the origin is not in the relative interior of the convex hull of the signed transversal products of A. The concept of an isolated set of transversals is defined and used to obtain a neces*Work supported by an NSERC research grant. LINEAR ALGEBRA...

This research effort focuses on the acquisition of polyhedral outer-approximations to the convex hull of feasible solutions for mixed-integer linear and mixed-integer nonlinear programs. The goal is to produce desirable formulations that have superior size and/or relaxation strength. These two qualities often have great influence on the success of underlying solution strategies, and so it is wi...

Let C be the convex hull of points { (1 x )(1 x )T |x ∈ F ⊂ <n}. Representing or approximating C is a fundamental problem for global optimization algorithms based on convex relaxations of products of variables. If n ≤ 4 and F is a simplex then C has a computable representation in terms of matrices X that are doubly nonnegative (positive semidefinite and componentwise nonnegative). If n = 2 and ...

Nowadays, application of high speed crafts with large tonnage is of our country's essences. In order to gain high speed, new multi hull crafts are traditional. A hull form having been used recently in frigates is the Trimaran. Trimaran hull form and motion have been extensively studied due to the development of numerical and analytical methods as well as the exploitation of experimental setup. ...

The objective of this study was to evaluate total phenolic content and antioxidant activity of leaf and different parts of fruit (hull, shell, and kernel) of Bene in Ilam province. Total phenolic content was determined with the Folin- Ciocalteu Reagent (FCR); antioxidant activity of methanolic extracts were examined by DPPH (2,2diphenyl- 1- picrylhydrazyl), FRAP (ferric reducing antioxidant pow...

We present a nonstandard hull construction for locally uniform groups in a spirit similar to Luxembourg’s construction of the nonstandard hull of a uniform space. Our nonstandard hull is a local group rather than a global group. We investigate how this construction varies as one changes the family of pseudometrics used to construct the hull. We use the nonstandard hull construction to give a no...

Peng L.-X., Zou L., Tan M.-L., Deng Y.-Y., Yan J., Yan Z.-Y., Zhao G. (2017): Free amino acids, fatty acids, and phenolic compounds in Tartary buckwheat of different hull colour. Czech J. Food Sci., 35: 214–222. In this paper, free amino acids, fatty acids, and phenolic compounds in buckwheat of different hull colour were quantified by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectro...