The brewing industry generates large amounts of food waste including brewers’ spent grain (BSG) and leftover malted grains from beer production. BSG compositions can vary but consistently include high levels protein fiber. potential nutritional health benefits have sparked recent interest for fortification. However, the challenges associated with addition impact quality due to increases in fibe...

Biscuit and cake were prepared from amaranthus and sorghum fl our at the proportion of 20, 30, 40 and 50% with wheat fl our. Sensory evaluation was carried out and there was no signifi cant difference (p≤0.05) in texture in the different biscuit made from amaranthus fl our. However there was signifi cant difference in color, taste, smell and overall acceptance in amaranthus biscuits. In case of...

About 50-70% pregnant women have experienced some form of low back pain (LBP). The use of a support belt is a common part of therapy for back pain associated with pregnancy. However, little research exists with regard to the factors that may influence acceptance and comfort in the use of maternity support garments, which may affect compliance with treatment. This wearer trial involves evaluatio...

in recent years immense interest has been focused on the use of solar dryers especially when taking into consideration economical and ecological aspects and increasing in fuel costs. the aim of this study was to compare the qualitative factors of raisins made by five different drying methods. at the first step, pretreatments were applied to grapes (var. sultanas) and then the grapes were dried ...

Technology acceptance is a widely acknowledged key player in explaining technology adoption. However, there is a notable knowledge gap concerning the impact of cultural factors on technology acceptance, especially in the medical sector. It is evident though that countries differ greatly regarding their technical proneness, development and usage habits what should have considerable impact on acc...

carrot contains valuable and healthy material. beta carotene pigments and antioxidants on it are so effective against free radicals in body. formulation of novel fruity products is object of some investigations and in parallel of it, have been used different compositions of hydrocolloids and others additional material in its formulations. in addition we can use the low edible quality of carrots...

background: mahyaveh is an iranian salted-fermented fish sauce which due to its high amount of protein has risk of histamine production. this study was carried out to determine effect of zataria multiflora essential oil (eo) on histamine production in mahyaveh. methods: dried anchovies (stolephorus sp.), refined-salt and mustard seed (brassica juncea) were purchased from the local market in ban...

Fresh and combined methods processed Cantaloupe melons, mangoes and cashew apples were submitted to consumers’ acceptance and scored on a nine-point hedonic scale. Fruits were osmotically treated in sucrose syrup with two different concentrations of SO2. Overall acceptance, appearance, aroma, flavor and texture were evaluated. Fresh cashew apples received lower scores for acceptance than proces...

We say that a mechanism is harmless if no student can ever misreport his preferences so that he does not hurt but someone else. We consider a large class of rules which includes the Boston, the agent-proposing deferred acceptance, and the school-proposing deferred acceptance mechanisms (sDA). In this large class, the sDA happens to the unique harmless mechanism. We next provide two axiomatic ch...

The proliferation of information technology (IT) in supporting highly specialized tasks and services has made it increasingly important to understand the factors essential to technology acceptance by individuals. In a typical professional setting, the essential characteristics of user, technology, and context may differ considerably from those in ordinary business settings. This study examined ...