in the recent years, considerable attention has been allocated in the area of using natural preservatives in foods, especially vegetable oils.  starch foams prepared from high amylose starch are useful for encapsulation of substances such as chemicals, liquids or solids, including flavor compounds, pharmaceuticals and essential oils. the foams have the ability to trap the active material and su...

In plant factories, plants are usually cultivated in nutrient solution under a controllable environment. Plant quality and growth are closely monitored and precisely controlled. For plant growth evaluation, plant weight is an important and commonly used indicator. Traditional plant weight measurements are destructive and laborious. In order to measure and record the plant weight during plant gr...

ÐTransient cyclic fatigue-crack growth behavior following variable-amplitude loading sequences has been investigated in a hot-pressed, monolithic Si3N4 ceramic (NTK EC-141), for which fracture toughness (resistance-curve) and cyclic fatigue properties are well characterized. Following rapid changes in the applied stress-intensity range, DK, during both low-high and high-low block-loading sequen...

1. Introduction the mechanical environment an extremely fascinating area of study. The cardiovascular system is constantly exposed to Research into the role of mechanical force in tissue mechanical perturbation from shear and tensile stresses. growth has been advanced considerably over the last 10 During development cardiovascular cells respond to years or so with the development of devices des...

Decision makers’ cognitive capabilities cannot keep pace with the ongoing exponential growth in the available amount of data. Seeking to understand the resulting consequences, this paper addresses three research questions: How does information load in teams affect decision quality in the context of an integrated information system? How do the attributes of team members affect decision quality? ...

This study applies the environmental Kuznets curve to test the relationship between the regional economic growth and the different types of agricultural nonpoint source pollution loads in the Ningxia Yellow River irrigation area by using the Johnes export coefficient method. Results show that the pollution load generated by crop cultivation and livestock-breeding industries in the Ningxia Yello...

Task resource allocation has always been an important issue in cloud-based data center networks (DCNs). This paper considers provisioning the maximum admissible load (MAL) of virtual machines (VMs) in physical machines (PMs) with underlying tree-structured DCNs using the hose model for communication. The limitation of static load distribution is that it assigns tasks to nodes in a once-and-for-...

Massive MIMO is a promising technique to meet the exponential growth of mobile traffic demand. However, contrary to the current systems, energy consumption of next generation networks is required to be load adaptive as the network load varies significantly throughout the day. In this paper, we propose a load adaptive multi-cell massive MIMO system where each base station (BS) adapts the number ...

The growth in computer and networking technologies over the past decades produced new type of collaborative computing environment called Grid Network. Grid is a parallel and distributed computing network system that possesses the ability to achieve a higher throughput computing by taking advantage of many computing resources available in the network. Therefore, to achieve a scalable and reliabl...

Load-sensitive routing has been integrated into the Internet routing algorithms since the early days of ARPANET. However, drawbacks such as overreaction to changing network conditions and permanent oscillation effects finally caused the idea of load-adaptive routing to be dropped for some decades. In the last years we see once more a tremendous growth of interest in traffic engineering and in l...