RHEOLOGICAL AND THERMAL STUDIES OF DAMAGED WHEAT FLOUR AS AFFECTED BY INCREASING LEVELS OF MICROBIAL 2 TRANSGLUTAMINASE 4 P.A. Caballero, A. Bonet , C.M. Rosell , M. Gómez, 1 Area de Tecnología de Alimentos. Universidad de Valladolid. Avda de Madrid, 44. 6 34004-Palencia. Spain. E-mail: [email protected] 2 Instituto de Agroquímica y Tecnología de Alimentos (CSIC). P.O. Box 73, 461008 Burjasso...

Soils at critical state are like a visco-plastic fluids, which will flow for applied stresses greater than the critical state (CS) shear strength. Shear viscosity is a key parameter to understand the post-failure flow response of soils in geotechnical applications such as landslides, jacked piles and cone penetrometers. Viscosity of soil has been investigated for water contents greater than the...

Some studies indicate that obesity is associated with rheological disturbances. Because there are usually sex differences in the type of obesity we decided to evaluate rheological differences between male and female obese patients. We studied 18 morbidly obese men, mean age 43.66 +/- 11.32 years, mean body mass index (BMI) 49.82 +/- 6.03 kg/m2 and 20 obese females, mean age 40.6 +/- 11.86 years...

BACKGROUND Blood stasis has received increasing attention in research related to traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) and integrative Chinese and Western medicine. More than 90% of research studies use hemorheology indexes to evaluate the establishment of animal blood stasis models rather than pathological methods, as hemorheology index evaluations of blood stasis were short of the consolidated s...

Breads were prepared with various combinations of maize, brown rice and wheat flours in the basic formulation of bread. The baking properties and chemical composition of bread were evaluated and analysed, respectively. The bread volume decreased, where as bread weight and moisture content increased with the increasing level of maize and brown rice flour. The crumb and crust colour of breads wer...

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is a crucial task in bioinformatics. In this study we extended previous work with evolutionary algorithms (EA) by using MSA solutions obtained from the wellknown Clustal V algorithm as a candidate solution seed of the initial EA population. Our results clearly show that EAs can improve the results of Clustal V significantly with marginal computational effort.

Different artificial neural networks architectures were developed to predict the density, viscosity and refractive index of binary and ternary mixtures of ionic liquids using their individual properties. All neural network implemented were evaluated using the root mean square error (RMSE) and the average percentage deviations (APD) for the training and validation phase. The individual models im...