Fluid Milk Processing Costs: Current State and Comparisons

Fluid Milk Processing Costs : Current State and

An economic-engineering model is used to derive the theoretically m in imu m cost of processing and distributing fluid white milk for the s ta te of Maine. This model represents a s tate-of-the-art mi lk processing facility and is used to evaluate three questions: 1) the components of total processing costs; 2) whe the r the cost of milk processing declines wi th increasing p lant size; and 3) ...

Comparisons of Costs and Efficiencies Between Cooperative, Proprietary, and Captive Fluid Milk Processors: A Neural Network Approach

FPGAs for data processing: Current state

To escape a number of physical limitations (e.g., bandwidth and thermal issues), hardware technology is strongly trending toward heterogeneous system designs, where a large share of the application work can be off-loaded to accelerators, such as graphics or network processors. In the database domain, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) were recently discovered as a powerful class of co-proce...

Comparisons of Breast Milk Fatty Acid Profiles in Overweight and Obese Women

Background and Objectives: Breast milk composition is affected by several factors such as maternal diet and body mass index. Milk fats include a major calorie content of the milk, which changes dramatically throughout the lactation. The aim of the present study was to assess breast milk fatty acid profile in overweight and obese mothers and its correlations with maternal body mass index. Mater...

Current state of bone scintigraphy protocols and practice in Japan

Objective(s): Nuclear medicine technologists in Japan often perform additional single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) with or without computed tomography (CT) after whole-body imaging for bone scintigraphy. In this study, we wanted to identify the bone scanning protocols used in Japan, together with the current clinical practices. Methods:...