In comparison to cocoa, little has been reported on the drying of cupuassu almonds that can be used produce cupulate, a chocolate type product. Thus, in this study thermophysical properties dry (moisture = 9.68 % d.b.) were determined as: thermal conductivity (k) 0.14 kW/(m.K), specific heat (cp) 2.86 kJ/(kg.K), diffusivity (?) 4.8·10-5 m²/s, effective (Deff) 9.94·10-10 - 6.29·10-10 m²/s and ac...

Almond is considered the most common and essential nut grown in rainfed area. It has many species wildly distributed Iraqi Kurdistan region, which are called Chaqala by local people. To understand improve characteristics of cultivated almonds, a comprehensive study wild almonds terms population structure genetic diversity needed to transfer new traits into domesticated almonds. So, twelve diffe...

Twenty-eight growing wether lambs (33.9 kg), adapted to urea for 40 d, were used in a metabolism study to determine if urea impregnation of corn could improve urea utilization. The following diets were compared: 1) whole shelled corn alone, 2) whole shelled corn impregnated with urea, calcium (Ca) as CaCl2, potassium (K) as KC2H3O2, and sulfur (S) as Na2S2O3 X 5H2O, 3) whole shelled corn fed wi...

Article history: Received: 26.4.2015. Received in revised form: 16.9.2015. Accepted: 22.9.2015. The scattered point cloud data, which comes from such small-sized objects with complex free-form surface as shelled shrimp, is processed as error points removing, points filtering, holes filling, clouds segmenting, etc. using CATIA V5 R20. The principle of data processing and skills utilized in the o...

BACKGROUND One of the most attractive properties of quantum dots is their potential to extend the opportunities for fluorescent and multimodal imaging in vivo. The aim of the present study was to clarify whether the composition and structure of organic coating of nanoparticles are crucial for their application in vivo. METHODS We compared quantum dots coated with non-crosslinked amino-functio...

It has been previously established that native smooth-shelled mussels in southern South America possess close evolutionary affinities with Northern-Hemisphere Mytilus edulis L. 1758 (McDonald et al. (1991) [5]). This result has since been challenged by authors claiming that Chilean mussels should be considered a local subspecies of M. galloprovincialis Lmk. 1819. Moreover, morphological, physio...