The present study aimed to investigate the possibility of reducing energy content in emulsion type sausages by replacing fat with inulin. In the manufactured product, the fat content was reduced to 6%-18% and replaced by inulin and water. The quality of the resulting product was determined by chemical and texture profile analyses (TPA), color measurement and sensory evaluation. The results show...

This paper presents the effects of a free-repair warranty on the periodic replacement policy in discrete time process. Consider a repairable product that should be operating at the time over an indefinitely long operation cycle n (     , 2 , 1 n ); under the discrete-time periodic replacement policy, a product is preventively replaced at pre-specified operation cycles    , 3 , 2 , N N N ...

‎This paper proposes a multi-supplier multi-product inventory model in which the suppliers have unlimited production capacity, allow delayed payment, and offer either an all-unit or incremental discount. The retailer can delay payment until after they have sold all the units of the purchased product. The retailer’s warehouse is limited, but the surplus can be stored in a rented warehouse at a...

One of the most important items for better file system performance is efficient buffering of disk blocks in main memory. Efficient buffering helps to reduce the widespeed gap between main memory and hard disks. In this buffering system, the block replacement policy is one of the most important design decisions that determines which disk block should be replaced when the buffer is full. To o...

An adaptive online flux-linkage estimation method for the sensorless control of switched reluctance motor (SRM) drive is presented in this paper. Sensorless operation is achieved through a binary observer based algorithm. In order to avoid using the look up tables of motor characteristics, which makes the system, depends on motor parameters, an adaptive identification algorithm is used to estim...

Abstract Product customization is a means that effectively caters to personal needs, and as such, has increasingly caught the attention of both consumers manufacturers. With technological advancements, products now being made available through mobile applications. However, apps need be easy use operate, which presents some challenges for app designers. In response, this study proposes an intera...

With growing environmental and energy concerns, Jatropha plantations are promoted in degraded/waste lands for the biodiesel production. Nutrient rich nonedible deoiled seed cake, a by-product of Jatropha left out after oil extraction was evaluated at the ICRISAT centre at Patancheru, India as an environment friendly source of nutrients for rainy season maize and soybean followed by postrain...

In a recent paper by Sumita and Rieders (1990), a new algorithm has been developed for computing the ergodic probability vector for large Markov chains. Decomposing the state space into M lumps, the algorithm generates a sequence of replacement processes on individual lumps in such a way that in the limit the ergodic probability vector for a replacement process on one lump will be proportional ...