Fruits and vegetables, known for their large nutrient potential, are more susceptible to high postharvest loss than other crops. Factors such as perishability, poor post-production handling storage processing infrastructures, increase the magnitude of food losses. The fruits vegetables in Sub-Saharan Africa ranges from 30% 50%. One key strategy overcome losses is through cold chain integration ...

vibration in the air slide tables of ultra precision machines prevents gaining accuracies within nanometer level. in this work, dissimilar types of internal vibration including small vibrations and pneumatic hammers have been tested and some measures have been offered to reduce their effects. this paper has also proceeded to the vibration tests on the air slide tables built with different numbe...

The purpose of this investigation was to compare the thermoregulatory, metabolic, and perceptual effects of lower body (LBI) and whole body (WBI) immersion precooling techniques during submaximal exercise. Eleven healthy men completed two 30-min cycling bouts at 60% of maximal O(2) uptake preceded by immersion to the suprailiac crest (LBI) or clavicle (WBI) in 20 degrees C water. WBI produced s...

The effectiveness of static magnetic fields (SMFs) in improving food freezing is a topic that, nowadays, raises substantial controversy among the scientific community. To shed light on this matter, new experiments, under well controlled conditions, were performed potato samples subjected or not to SMFs either 40–55 mT 150–200 mT, that is, approximately 1000 and 5000 times greater than Earth's f...