This study utilizes an analysis technique commonly used in marketing, the conjoint analysis method, to examine the relative utilities of a set of beef steak characteristics considered by a national sample of 1,432 US consumers, as well as additional localized samples representing undergraduate students at a business college and in an animal science department. The analyses indicate that among a...

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Much effort has been invested in the development and implementation of international recommendations to manage the risk of foodborne antimicrobial resistance, and monitoring programmes to measure bacterial antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial product volumes. A variety of approaches have been recommended for various stakeholders in the food animal and food production sectors. Interestingl...

This report presents the studies carried out on two modifications suggested in the literature for Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. The modifications are applicable to feed-forward neural networks. One modification [18], made on performance index, reduces computational complexity of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm, while the other one [17], made on calculation of the gradient information, improv...

To revise / revisit basic control schemes covered in the second year control course (Process Control I). Schemes to be discussed are: • Feedback control • Feedforward Control • Cascade Control • Ratio Control For each scheme a typical process example is used to highlight the application of the methodology. On completion of this section of the course you should have an awareness of a common proc...

The map of nutrition, evident in the structure of any course or textbook, derives from theses that framed a science begun in the 1840s, developed until the 1940s, and consolidated until now. Nutritionists now are as perplexed as the explorers of half a millennium ago, who continued to use maps that did not fit the wider world they found. Until the 1600s, alternatives to Ptolemaic cosmology rema...