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Investigation of the Effect of Drying Conditions on Phytochemical Content and Antioxidant Activity in Pineapple (Ananas comosus)
Pineapple, with its attractive sensorial and nutritional characteristics, is the most traded tropical fruit worldwide. However, due to its high-water content (85–92 w.b %), it is highly perishable, and therefo...
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Open AccessEmergency department resource optimisation for improved performance: a review
Emergency departments (EDs) have been becoming increasingly congested due to the combined impacts of growing demand, access block and increased clinical capability of the EDs. This congestion has known to have...
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Open AccessFundamental Understanding of Cellular Water Transport Process in Bio-Food Material during Drying
Bio-food materials are heterogeneous in structure with cellular diversity, where the majority of the water is located in the intracellular spaces. Understanding of the nature of the microscopic behaviour of wa...
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Failure Analysis of a Mobile Crane: A Case Study
This paper presents metallurgical failure analysis method to find the root cause of a mobile crane turret bolts failure. Focus of the metallurgical analysis was to identify the root causes of the failure of tu...
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A Method of Three-Dimensional Thermo-Fluid Simulation of the Receiver of a Standard Parabolic Trough Collector
A parabolic trough collector (PTC) is the most proven concentrating collector system for indirect steam generation in solar thermal power plants. The receiver of the collector is fabricated envelo** a metal ...
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Modelling Conical Rock-Bed Solar Thermal Storage Tank
An important application of solar thermal storage is for power generation or process heating. Low-temperature thermal storage in a packed rock bed is considered the best option for thermal storage for solar dr...
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Analytical Modelling of Integrated Solar Drying System
The drying of fruit and vegetables is a subject of great importance. Dried fruit and vegetables have gained commercial importance, and their growth on a commercial scale has become an important sector of the a...
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A Method for Evaluating Lean Assembly Process at Design Stage
Lean product design has the potential to reduce the overall product development time and cost and can improve the quality of a product. However, it has been found that no or little work has been carried out to...
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A Systematic Approach to Evaluate the Process Improvement in Lean Manufacturing Organizations
Numerous tools and techniques have been developed to eliminate or reduce waste and carry out Lean concepts in the manufacturing environment. However, in practice, manufacturers encounter difficulties to clearl...
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Assessment of genetic divergence in salt tolerance of soybean (Glycine max L.) genotypes
A large number of soybean (Glycine max L.) genotypes of diverse growth habit and adaptive characters were used in the experiment. Soil salinity-induced changes in nine morpho-physiological characters of 30-day-ol...
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The effect of elevated CO2 concentration on leaf chlorophyll and nitrogen contents in rice during post-flowering phases
The effect of elevated CO2 concentration (CE) on leaf chlorophyll (Chl) and nitrogen (N) contents and photosynthetic rate (PN) was evaluated during the post-flowering stages of rice grown at CE (570 ± 50 µmol mol
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Manufacturing Yield Improvement by Clustering
Dealing with product yield and quality in manufacturing industries is getting more difficult due to the increasing volume and complexity of data and quicker time to market expectations. Data mining offers tool...
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In vivo role of the extracellular matrix during vascular repair
Neointimal hyperplasia, smooth muscle cell (SMC) proliferation, and extracellular matrix (ECM) synthesis invariably follow vascular injury. A number of biologic and rheologic factors have been identified tha...
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Cell suspension, isolation and culture of protoplasts of Allium cepa
Tissue culture techniques involving cell suspension, protoplast fusion and culture in the genus Allium are different as Allium is recalcitrant due to the biological peculiarity of the genus. A procedure is des...
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Pox among sannen goats in Iraq
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A survey of bovine cysticercosis in northern Iraq
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A survey of coenurosis in sheep in northern Iraq
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The prevalence of brucellosis among sheep and goats in northern Iraq
Out of a total of 2,368 sheep and 3,156 goats tested against brucellosis by the Brewer's card test in the 5 Mohafadhas of the northern region of Iraq, 0.93% and 4.4% respectively were recorded as positive reac...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Pathological Aspects of the Concept of Neurosecretion with Special Reference to the Pathogenesis of Diabetes Insipidus
This is the first occasion at these symposia in which a paper has been devoted to the pathological aspects of neurosecretion. This we propose to do, drawing particular attention first, to the bearing the conce...
