in this study, using sound created by wheat grain passing through a pipe, wheat flow rate was measured. the developed device consists of a hopper, metering device, sound sensor, delivery tube, dc motor and power supply. several wheat mass flow rates were tested and the sound signal created by the passage of the grain through the discharge tube was measured and transferred to a computer using da...

Using the cDNA clone for yeast TATA binding protein (TBP) (1) we have isolated a cDNA coding for wheat TBP from a wheat seedling cDNA library. Wheat TBP is 201 amino acids (wh, Figure 1). Comparison to other plant TBPs (Figure 1) indicates short, and moderately conserved, amino terminal domains. Dictyostelium also has a short amino domain, but it diverges from those of plants. In contrast the c...

INTRODUCTION The type and amount of concentrate included in beef cattle diets can greatly influence production and profitability. Small grains are typically fed in these rations, but the inclusion of by-product feeds, such as wheat middlings (WM), in growing and finishing diets have recently been studied (Dalke et al., 1997; Blasi et al., 1998). Wheat middlings are the by-product of the wheat m...

We hypothesize that institutions such as agricultural cooperatives influence regional levels of variety diversity through input supply, processing or marketing functions. This diversity can also affect yield, a partial measure of crop productivity. We test these hypotheses with data from southern Italy, a mega-diversity spot and centre of diversity for durum wheat. Cooperatives in the southern ...

Globally, wheat is the leading source of vegetable protein in human food, having a higher protein content than other major cereals, maize (corn) or rice. In terms of total production tonnages used for food, India is currently second to wheat as the main human food crop and ahead of maize. Determining the quality of wheat is critical. Specifying the quality of wheat manually requires an expert j...

This paper considers a customer order scheduling (COS) problem in which each customer requests a variety of products processed in a two-machine flow shop. A sequence-independent attached setup for each machine is needed before processing each product lot. We assume that customer orders are satisfied by the job-based processing approach in which the same products from different customer orders f...

To improve the nutrient-density of snack products, milk proteins (casein, whey protein concentrate or whey protein isolate) and wheat xber were co-extruded with corn meal your, in a twin screw extruder under high shear and high temperature processing conditions. Co-extruding corn products and xber resulted in the reduction of specixc mechanical energy while increasing the expansion and breaking...

Th e aim of the research was the comparison of economic feasibility of most common conventional and organic farm production in Slovenia. Th e methodology of an integrated deterministic technologic-economic simulation system KARSIM 1.0 (DSM) application for cost analysis and decision-making support on farms is described in this article. Th e direct simulation model result is an individual conven...