background: bread is the major food in middle east and iran. recent studies in iran have shown that daily bread consumption was 300gr. also, 40.2% of the total energy per person was obtained from bread. methods: this cross-sectional study was done in 81 bakeries in rafsanjan, iran in 2004. the main objective of this study was to determine some parameters of the bread, such as ph, nacl, dough an...

A human operator assembles components using his skill and judgement which is difficult to incorporate in a mechanized device. Though the mechanized system will offer higher speed and reliability, but its inherent inaccuracies will limit the success in assembling. Thus, it is essential that these inaccuracies are determined to establish its ‘Process capability’ , and also provide information for...

I t is indeed an honor to be invited to this platform. One has only to read the names of my distinguished predecessors to realize that, as the saying goes, I have thirty-seven acts that are hard to follow. As a mostly pure mathematician my concern is increased when I note that thirty-two of the lectures have dealt with applications of mathematics to other sciences. The true desperation of my pr...

Stimuli-responsive metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have gained increasing attention recently for their potential applications in many areas. We report the design and synthesis of a water-stable zirconium MOF (Zr-MOF) that bears photoresponsive azobenzene groups. This particular MOF can be used as a reservoir for storage of cargo in water, and the cargo-loaded MOF can be further capped to constr...

We present an extensive review of the literature on remote sensing and land change in Amazonia as part of a call for new methods to study the recent expansion of mechanized annual cropping. Following the review is a presentation of the use of multitemporal Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) 250-meter Vegetation Index (VI) data to study processes of intensification of mechaniz...

nitrogen is one of the most important nutrients in crop production, but it's losses to the environment is harmful. the sundial model (simulation model of n dynamics in the soil) was used to quantify the cycle of n and it's losses in different production systems of sugar beet (beta vulgaris l.) in former khorasan province, east of iran. the data were collected from traditional, semi-me...

Nigeria being a tropical nation with high temperature and some Nigerian bakeries use mud oven which expose workers to direct contact heat increasing their risk of stress. This research work tends evaluate stress on bakery in Makurdi, Benue State. Forty questionnaires were validly filled handed from the at various bakeries. Data such as age, duration exposure well estimation satisfaction level d...