Blending helps extend the range of application of oils and fats. This is because most natural oils and fats have limited applications in their original form. Natural oils and fats may need to be modified to suit a particular product formulation. Blending is the simplest method used to modify oils and fats. From the palm fruits, a wide range of products can be derived including palm oil, palm ol...

background: in the recent years nanostructured materials have been the focus of researches due to their wide-spread possibilities to provide new shapes and structures for some materials. microemulsions can provide uniform nano-sized droplets for templating. microemulsions are isotropic, thermodynamically-stable systems of oil, water and surfactant with a 20-200 nm droplet size. they can be prep...

Applications can signi cantly bene t from specializing thread packages, schedulers and synchronization primitives to their needs. In prior systems, specialization has been accomplished through a partitioning of service across the user-kernel boundary. The kernel provides some basic control ow services while user code implements the specialized interface. This approach, though, has been shown to...

The aim of this study was to evaluate biogeographic variability in the fruit, kernel, kernel-oil and press-cake contents 50 accessions beauty leaf tree (C. inophyllum L.) collected from 19 locations spanning 4000 km along eastern northern coasts Australia (Northern Territory Queensland). Mature fallen fruits C. were individual trees stored a shed for over year. cracked open extract kernels, ker...

An algorithm of Dutt and Rokhlin (SIAM J Sci Comput 1993;14:1368-1383) for the computation of a fast Fourier transform (FFT) of nonuniformly-spaced data samples has been extended to two dimensions for application to MRI image reconstruction. The 2D nonuniform or generalized FFT (GFFT) was applied to the reconstruction of simulated MRI data collected on radially oriented sinusoidal excursions in...

Response surface methodology was employed to study the effect of formulation composition variables, water content (60%-80%, w/w) and oil and surfactant (O/S) ratio (0.17-1.33), as well as high-shear emulsification conditions, mixing rate (300-3,000 rpm) and mixing time (5-30 minutes) on the properties of sodium diclofenac-loaded palm kernel oil esters-nanoemulsions. The two response variables w...

An analytical inversion formula for the exponential Radon transform with an imaginary attenuation coefficient was developed in 2007 (2007 Inverse Problems 23 1963-71). The inversion formula in that paper suggested that it is possible to obtain an exact MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) image without acquiring low-frequency data. However, this un-measured low-frequency region (ULFR) in the k-spac...

Recovery rate is essential to the estimation of the portfolio's loss and economic capital. Neglecting the randomness of the distribution of recovery rate may underestimate the risk. The study introduces two kinds of models of distribution, Beta distribution estimation and kernel density distribution estimation, to simulate the distribution of recovery rates of corporate loans and bonds. As is k...

Over-exposure and perspective distortion are two of the main factors underlying inaccurate feature extraction. First, based on Steger's method, we propose a method for correcting curvilinear structures (lines) extracted from over-exposed images. A new line model based on the Gaussian line profile is developed, and its description in the scale space is provided. The line position is analytically...