This study examined if pre-germination altered the water content and water activity, contents of phytate, total phenolic, (±)-catechin, quercetin and total antioxidant capacity of almond  (Prunus dulcis)kernel. Raw almond kernels were submerged for 15 hours in water, 0.02 mol dm-3 phosphate buffer solution (pH 5.0) and 0.02 mol dm-3 phosphate buffer solution (pH 7.0) at 25 and 40ºC, respectivel...

A two-station tandem manufacturing system with limited buffer sizes and production capacity is considered. The problem is to examine the stability of the system and to control the service rates to meet an exogenous Poisson demand. A sufficient and necessary condition for the system stability is provided. It is shown that the optimal control policy for this finite buffer capacity problem has the...

Both visual attention and visual short-term memory (VSTM) have been shown to have capacity limits of 4 ± 1 objects, driving the hypothesis that they share a visual processing buffer. However, these capacity limitations also show strong individual differences, making the degree to which these capacities are related unclear. Moreover, other research has suggested a distinction between attention a...

The gastric acid response and the buffer capacity of the stomach were measured in 30 control subjects and 22 duodenal ulcer patients in response to a masticatory (solid) and a non-masticatory (homogenized) meal having the same chemical composition. The peak acid output values were equal after a masticatory and after a non-masticatory diet in control subjects (masticatory 18.1 +/- 1.2, non-masti...

This paper describes an optimized model to support QoS by mean of Congestion minimization on LSPs (Label Switching Path). In order to perform this model, we start from a CFA (Capacity and Flow Allocation) model. As this model does not consider the buffer size to calculate the capacity cost, our modelnamed BCA (Buffer Capacity Allocation)take into account this issue and it improve the CFA perfor...

We derive estimators of throughput sensitivity to changes in buffer capacity for continuous flow models of a transfer line comprising two machines separated by a buffer of finite capacity, where machines are subject to operation-dependent failures, i.e., a machine cannot fail when it is idle. Both repair times and failure times may be general, i.e., they need not be exponentially distributed. T...