Bread baking technology has an important effect on starch digestibility measured as its predicted glycemic index tested in vitro. The aim of this work was to evaluate the changes in predicted glycemic index of pound cake baked in a two-cycle microwave toaster and a conventional oven. The glycemic index was calculated from hydrolysis index values by the Granfeldt method. Non-significant differen...

There is a heterogeneous resource that contains both good parts and bad parts, for example, a cake with some parts burnt, a land-estate with some parts heavily taxed, or a chore with some parts fun to do. The resource has to be divided fairly among n agents, each of whom has a personal value-density function on the resource. The value-density functions can accept any real value positive or nega...

It has been shown by chromatography that aglycone, glucoside, acetylglucoside and malonylglucoside isoflavone extracts prepared from soybean cake showed better antioxidant activities than isoflavone standards. Consequently, the aim of this study was to evaluate the protective effects of these isoflavone extracts against ultraviolet B (UVB)induced keratinocyte damage. Our results demonstrated th...

We consider a setting in which a single divisible good (“cake”) needs to be dividedbetween n players, each with a possibly different valuation function over pieces of thecake. For this setting, we address the problem of finding divisions that maximize thesocial welfare, focusing on divisions where each player needs to get one contiguouspiece of the cake. We show that for both th...

The main objective of this research was to test the hypothesis that bioavailable protein and, more specifically, the sulfur-containing amino acids within the protein, can be degraded by proteolytic enzymes to produce odor-causing compounds--mainly volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs)--during biosolids storage. To achieve these objectives, samples of digester effluent and cake solids were collected ...

A laboratory-scale submerged anaerobic membrane bioreactor (SAnMBR) treating sewage was used to investigate the membrane fouling mechanism. Characterization of cake layer formed on membrane surface showed that cake layer was hydrated, rich of extracellular polymeric substances (EPS) and negative charged with the charge density of 0.21-0.46 meq/kg MLSS. Detailed analysis revealed a new membrane ...

PHYSIOLOGY TEACHING often comprises of a large percentage of didactic lectures. A 1-h didactic lecture is often much longer than the average attention span of most students (2). It is preferable to use different methods to decrease the possible monotony of the didactic lecture (1). This is even more important when the topic being discussed has a greater number of facts that require memorizing. ...

The technique that employs flash freezing and environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) was utilised for detailed investigation of the fouling materials in a membrane bioreactor (MBR). The method involves the flash freezing of a wet sample in liquid nitrogen for 10s to preserve its structure for direct ESEM observation with a high image resolution. ESEM images show that the sludge cake ...

The algorithmic aspects of the following problem are investigated: n (22) persons want to cut a cake into n shares so that every person will get at least l/n of the cake by his own measure and so that the number of cuts made on the cake is minimal. The cutting process is to be governed by a protocol (computer program). It is shown that no deterministic protocol exists which is fair (in a sense ...

Freshly harvested alfalfa was fractionated using centrifugation and filtration, whereby alfalfa was separated into a fiber-rich cake and a nutrient-rich juice. The solid cakes from the above separation processes were used as the feedstock for ethanol production using separate hydrolysis and fermentation. The filtration process proved to be more efficient at reducing the solids mass transfer to ...