The goal of this study was to investigate the most suitable kinetic models for pectin extraction by way of ultrasound-assisted extraction (UAE) and conventional heating extraction (CHE) with acid from melon peel. The ultrasound and acidic assisted extraction were performed on powdered melon peel in three different temperatures of 40-55-70°C and 50-70-90°C, respectively. It was observed that, in...

Growth analysis of stem variations information without interrupting natural growth of the crops is important for the water-saving irrigation. Three different approaches Illumination, Strain gauge and Image processing methods are applied to the growth data to model the growth of plant. In illumination method the imaging system uses a background illumination source to improve the quality of image...

Measurements of the total burden and of the concentration versus altitude profiles of ozone have been made with a ground-based heterodyne radiometer at Pasadena, California. The measurements were made in the 9.5-micrometer wavelength region, where a strong ozone infrared absorption band exists. The radiometer measured solar absorption at selected wavelengths, with a spectral resolution of 0.001...

The objective of this work was to compare the morphometry of hatchery‐reared and wild‐caught mangrove crab (Ucides cordatus) megalopae. Ten U. cordatus megalopae of each group (hatchery‐reared and wild‐caught) were individually analyzed using a stereoscopic microscope equipped with an ocular micrometer. Length, width, and height of all megalopae were measured, and the size of body appendices wa...

Scanning near-field optical spectroscopy was applied to semipolar ð20 2 1Þ InGaN/GaN quantum wells (QWs) to evaluate spatial homogeneity of QW band gap and its dependence on the growth conditions. In the most uniform QW, photoluminescence (PL) spectra were found to be narrow with small peak wavelength and spectral width variations. A QW grown at reduced temperature showed sub-micrometer size PL...

background: the aim of this study was to determine the pattern and amount of change exhibited in mandibular intercanine and intermolar width during treatment and assessing its stability1-3 years post-retention. materials and methods: the material consisted of 70 cases of which 20 cases were treated without extraction and 30 cases were treated with extraction, which were compared with 20 untreat...

Pymatuning Lake, located on the Pennsylvania/Ohio border, is noted for the large numbers of bread-eating carp that frequent the Linesville Causeway "carp bowl" from May to November. Carp were trapped in 1952 and 1984 at the carp bowl, tagged, and relocated varying distances away from the bowl in Sanctuary, Middle, and Lower lakes. Carp traversed the return distances of up to 9 km in less than 4...

Radio Resource Management (RRM) is an E-UTRAN Node B (eNodeB) application level function that ensures the efficient use of available radio resources. RRM manages the assignment, re-assignment and release of radio resources taking into account single and multi-cell aspects. Connection Mobility Control (CMC) is a sub-function of RRM. It is required in the idle as well as connected mode. In idle m...

In Drosophila, antennae and legs are serially homologous appendages, and yet they develop into organs of very different structure and function. This implies that different genetic mechanisms operate onto a common developmental ground state to produce antennae and legs. Still few such mechanisms have been uncovered. During leg development, bowl, a member of the odd-skipped gene family, has been ...