The main purpose of this project is investigation of the organophosphorus hydrolase (OPH) enzyme activity in water in oil (w/o) and oil in water (o/w) creams and investigation of the OPH enzyme stability in formulated creams. OPH enzyme was extracted and purified from strain flavobacterium. The w/o and o/w creams were prepared using different formulations. In order to achieve an emulsion with m...

encapsulation of olive oil is an effective method to protect it against environmental deteriorative factors. in this research, olive oil microcapsules were produced by complex coacervation method. the objective was to examine the effect of gelatin and arabic gum as shell materials, lactose as cryprotectant, and different acidification times on microencapsulation efficiency of olive oil. arabic ...

A modiication to neural network training algorithms is proposed which decorrelates certain weights within the network while minimising the mean squared error. The technique was developed to facilitate neural network interpretation in image processing problems, partly by allowing to initialise all network weights with one xed, low value. However, it can also be applied to classiica-tion tasks in...

The W boson can obtain a small right-handed coupling to quarks and leptons through mixing with a hypothetical W^{'} boson that appears in many extensions of the standard model. Measuring or even bounding this coupling to the light quarks is very challenging. Only one model independent bound on the absolute value of the complex mixing parameter has been obtained to date. Here we discuss a method...

Microwave processing is emerging as an innovative and highly effective material processing method offering many advantages over conventional methods, especially for sintering applications. It is recognized for its various advantages, such as: time and energy saving, rapid heating rates, considerably reduced processing cycle time and temperature, fine microstructures and improved mechanical prop...

Zhang Y, Carmichael SA, Wang XY, Huizinga JD, Paterson WG. Neurotransmission in lower esophageal sphincter of W/W mutant mice. Am J Physiol Gastrointest Liver Physiol 298: G14–G24, 2010. First published October 22, 2009; doi:10.1152/ajpgi.00266.2009.—To address the controversy surrounding the role of interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) in nitrergic neurotransmission to gastrointestinal smooth mus...

This paper presents a verification strategy for the hardware-software interface of a large ATM switch. The complexity of such a system and the requirements are discussed. A modeling strategy based on software emulation is presented which will allow for the functional verification of the interface prior to lab samples being available, resulting in reduced system integration times.