Electronic-nose (e-nose) instruments, derived from numerous types of aroma-sensor technologies, have been developed for a diversity of applications in the broad fields of agriculture and forestry. Recent advances in e-nose technologies within the plant sciences, including improvements in gas-sensor designs, innovations in data analysis and pattern-recognition algorithms, and progress in materi...

In the processing industries multiproduct batch plants are widespread production facilities for small amounts of high-valued products. These plants usually consist of various stages comprising several processing units each, which are predominately driven in batch mode. To operate these plants efficiently, limited resources have to be assigned to certain processing tasks in order to optimize the...

today, the development of agricultural industries, especially small and efficient agricultural sector has been paid more attention. the development of rural industries in the country led to job creation and absorption of surplus labor force in agriculture and also resulted in more exports and foreign exchange. this paper evaluates development indicators of process industries and accesses to reg...

This study examines the moderating effect of global and multidomestic industries on the relationship between domestic mindsets— knowledge structures that top managers use to make strategic decisions— and multinationality. Based on data of 171 firms from 20 industries, we found that: 1) complexity (breadth) of domestic mindsets was positively related to multinationality in multidomestic but not ...

Lipases are one of the most important industrial biocatalyst which catalyzes the hydrolysis of lipids. It can also reverse the reaction at minimum water activity. Because of this pliable nature, it is widely exploited to catalyze the diverse bioconversion reactions, such as hydrolysis, esterification, interesterification, alcoholysis, acidolysis and aminolysis. The property to synthesize the es...

In this paper the heterogeneous firms and trade literature is extended by integrating quality of inputs and outputs in a food and agricultural setting, along with an analysis of how the ability to translate capability into higher product quality is critical in evaluating the cut-offs for food processing firms to enter domestic and export markets. Specifically, it is found that the direction of ...