In 1996, U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulations mandated the fortification of enriched cereal-grain products with folic acid, thereby emphasizing the need for validated methods for total folates in foods, particularly cereal products. The AOAC Official Methods (944.12, 960.46) currently used for the analysis of folate in foods for compliance purposes are microbiological methods. When the...

In this paper, we present coarse-grain and fine-grain diagnosis techniques to identify a faulty element in FPGA interconnects. The fault model we use is stuck-open and resistive-open for interconnects. The presented technique requires only a small number of configurations while offering high resolution diagnosis. We implemented this technique on real FPGA chips and verified it using fault emula...

[1] The beds of steep streams are typically composed of relatively immobile boulders and more mobile patches of gravel and cobbles. Little is known about how variability in flow and sediment flux affect the area, thickness, composition, and grain mobility of sediment patches. To better understand patch dynamics, we measured flow, sediment transport, and bed properties in two steep channels. Pat...

Fine grain (1–2 lm) 2%, 3% KNbO3-BaTiO3 ceramics have been synthesized via the solid state reaction method. Fine and coarse grain ceramics sintered at different temperatures exhibit peaks in dielectric constant and internal friction in the vicinity of transition temperatures. Doping lowered the Curie point and raised the temperatures for the structural transformations between orthorhombic and r...

ii Also, an extensive state-of-the-art survey of the reconfigurable IP blocks is presented. Both main reconfigurable categories, i.e. fine grain and coarse grain, are covered and the most remarkable prevailing implementations are introduced extensively. Each of the architectures is categorized according to the computational granularity, communication topology and source of block, i.e., academic...

The paper addresses a broad readership in information technology, computer science and related areas, and gives an introduction to fine grain and coarse grain morphware, reconfigurable computing, and its impact on classical computer science and business models. It points out trends driven by microelectronics technology, EDA, and the mind set of datastream-based computing. 2003 Elsevier B.V. All...

Results: Before the WIC revisions, when no bread or rice was provided through WIC, white bread dominated bread purchases among WIC households (78% of volume), and almost all rice purchased was white (94%). As a result of theWIC revisions, the share of 100% whole-grain bread in total bread purchases tripled (from 8% to 24%), replacing purchases of white bread; the share of brown rice rose to 30%...

The aim of this study was to determine volatile compounds in dry dog foods and their possible influence on sensory aromatic profile. Grain-free dry dog foods were compared to dry dog foods manufactured with grain, but also with different protein sources for their aromatic volatiles. Solid-phase microextraction/gas chromatography/mass spectrometry was used to determine the aromatic compounds pre...

Abstract: Equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) is a promising technique for production of ultra fine-grain (UFG) materials of few hundred nanometers size. In this research, the grain refinement of aluminium strip is accelerated by sandwiching it between two copper strips and then subjecting the three strips to ECAE process simultaneously. The loosely packed copper-aluminium-copper laminated b...

The virtualization of resources in SMP machines with Xen offers automatic round-robin based coarse-grain assignment of VMs to physical processors and manual assignment via privileged commands. However, two problems can arise in Grid environments: (1) if Xen’s sEDF scheduler assigns the VMs, then some processors could be over or underutilized and the VMs could receive more resources than specifi...