The maximum attainable head rice yield in conventional long grain milling is approximately 64%, with around 15% being lost as a result of broken kernels. primary objective this project was, therefore, to improve the yield. To achieve goal, biochemically assisted whitening processes involving application different aqueous solutions were evaluated. Head was increased for all tested liquids (3.3–3...

OBJECTIVE To determine trends in incidence of malignant mesothelioma (MM) caused by exposure to asbestos during home maintenance and renovation. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Using the Western Australian Mesothelioma Register, we reviewed all cases of MM diagnosed in WA from 1960 to the end of 2008, and determined the primary source of exposure to asbestos. Categories of exposure were coll...

BACKGROUND Between 1997 and 1999 three sericite plant workers in Parana, Brazil, were diagnosed with pneumoconiosis. AIMS To investigate and describe the radiological, clinical, and pathological changes in miners and millers exposed to sericite dust with mineralogical characteristics of inhaled dust. METHODS The working premises were visited to examine the sericite processing and to classif...

A unit operations approach was used to study the break subsystem of the wheat  our milling process. The purpose of this study was to determine the parameters of the incoming stock to a break subsystem in estimation of the particle size distribution of the stock leaving the subsystem. The incoming stock characteristics studied included the wheat commercial characteristics and the particle size ...

INTRODUCTION Effective learning of physical examination skills (PES) requires suitable teaching and learning techniques and assessment methods. The Tribhuvan University (Nepal) curriculum recommends involving the departments of Medicine and Surgery in PES training (PEST) for second year students as a part of early clinical exposure. The project was developed to make teaching/learning of PES str...

Grain-induced asthma is a frequent occupational allergic disease mainly caused by inhalation of cereal flour or powder. The main professions affected are bakers, confectioners, pastry factory workers, millers, farmers, and cereal handlers. This disorder is usually due to an IgE-mediated allergic response to inhalation of cereal flour proteins. The major causative allergens of grain-related asth...

OBJECTIVES To examine the risk of wood dust and chemical exposures for adenocarcinoma of the nasal cavity and paranasal sinuses (ADCN) among German wood workers. METHODS An industry-based case-control study with 86 male ADCN cases and 204 controls was conducted in the German wood-working industries. Cumulative and average wood-dust exposure was quantified with a job-exposure matrix based on w...

1 S.L. Miller: Center for Marine Science and NOAA’s National Undersea Research Center, University of North CarolinaWilmington, 515 Caribbean Drive, Key Largo, FL 33037, USA, Email: [email protected] 2 D.W. Swanson: Center for Marine Science, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, 515 Caribbean Drive, FL 33037 and Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science, University of Miami, 4600 ...

As the main exporter in the oil palm industry, the need to improve the quality of palm oil has become the main interest among all the palm oil millers in Malaysia. To produce good quality palm oil, it is important for the miller to harvest a good oil palm Fresh Fruit Bunch (FFB). Conventionally, the main reference used by Malaysian harvesters is the manual grading standard published by the Mala...

Nrwly tlrvrloprti low amylosr lvhrats (fiitzrum ciu.rtii.um L.) liavr u~i iqur procrssirlg c.harac.trristic.s, and thus allow millers to blend defined levels of amylose in mixes requiring low-amylose flour. The amount of amylose synthesised during grain fill is dependent on the expression of three structural grlirs that rrlcotir isofi~rms of'gi-anulr-l-)ourid starch synthasr (GBSS). L i ~ i r s...