The Japanese fermented food Natto contains menaquinone 7 (MK7), which is known to increase bone mineral density and reduce bone fractures. Natto is traditionally produced via the solid state fermentation of soy beans by Bacillus subtilis natto. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of static and dynamic solid state fermentation (SSF) on the production of MK7 using polenta (milled...

In this paper, a method is proposed to measure the shapes of specular surfaces with one-shot-projection of structured laser patterns. By intercepting the reflection of the reflected laser pattern twice with two diffusive planes, the closed form solution is achieved for each reflected ray. The points on the specular surface are reconstructed by computing the intersections of the incident rays an...

This study examines the rheological behavior of reconstituted spray-dried mucilage isolated from the cladodes of pitahaya (Hylocereus undatus), the effects of concentration and its relationship with physical properties were analyzed in reconstituted solutions. Drying process optimization was carried out through the surface response method, utilizing a factorial 2(3) design with three central po...

We consider n individuals described by p standardized variables, represented by points of the surface of the unit hypersphere Sn-1. For a previous choice of n individuals we suppose that the set of observables variables comes from a mixture of bipolar Watson distribution defined on the hypersphere. EM and Dynamic Clusters algorithms are used for identification of such mixture. We obtain estimat...

A COMMON APPROACH used in formulating elastoplastic constitutive equations is to partition the total strain rate into its elastic and plastic parts, and then develop the constitutive expression for the plastic strain rate using the concept of the yield surFace in stress space. An alternative approach is to partition the stress rate into its elastic and plastic parts, and then develop the consti...

0168-583X/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. doi:10.1016/j.nimb.2010.11.098 ⇑ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (L. R uj.edu.pl (Z. Postawa). Molecular dynamics computer simulations are employed to probe processes taking place during continuous irradiation of Ag(1 1 1) surface by keV Ar872 projectiles. Surface modification, the total sputtering yield, and the a...