What steps should one take to address post-harvest disease problems in a supply chain?

If I were to receive an import of a new fruit species in the country and, upon arrival, the whole lot was diseased, what steps do I take to diagnose and solve the problem? Is there a general...

10 January 2021 1,649 7 View

Why does the lipid oxidation rate start to increase below water activity levels of 0.4?

At both very high and very low water activities, lipid oxidation rates are high compared to the rate at intermediate water activities. What can explain this trend?

16 April 2020 186 5 View

How do you reduce the static forces in canon ball packing of fruits for transportation?

Examples of how to increase the contact surface area of the bottom area? Thank you.

25 March 2020 9,187 4 View

Why will RVP of foods rely solely on temperature at sub-freezing temperatures and not on sample composition?

At above-freezing temperatures, I know RVP is a function of temperature and food composition. However, it becomes dependent on temperature when its sub-freezing temperatures and the kind and ratio...

01 November 2019 7,950 1 View

Why is fructose more hygroscopic than glucose? Also, why would the alpha and beta anomers of sugar differ in terms of water uptake?

Does it have something to do with its ketone group or a different property? Please explain.

22 October 2019 3,849 4 View

Does anyone have experience combining Coticosterone powder with HBD / Cyclodextrine powder?

Our lab is exploring various methods to get Corticosterone (CORT) into a solution suitable for rodent subcutaneous injections, accounting for difficulty of preparation and cost. Many studies...

21 January 2019 8,161 2 View

Determining yield strength using offset requires extensometer?

I would like to know if extensometer is necessary to determine yield strength of nickel 718 alloy? Or using cross head movement to estimate the sample strain is sufficient? I'm using 0.2% offset.

13 January 2019 7,042 7 View

Influence of mounted sample height on SEM images?

I have several samples that have been mounted however the sample height differs, which means the working distance will differ as well. May I know how this will influence the the image captured in...

25 March 2018 7,831 4 View

How do I check for Tg based on DSC graph shown?

Hi I have attached a DSC graph in this post. Based on my interpretation theres two Tg in this graph? Is my analysis correct? If not, how do I analyse this?

20 February 2017 6,521 10 View

Curing method of concrete for 28 days compressive strenght?

Based on the following standard ASTM C 39 and C 192, the 28 curing time does it include the time at which the concrete is inside the mold? If yes, which means it will be cured 1 day in the mold...

30 August 2016 616 17 View

error in running a model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

error in modelling model in Abaqus

Excessive rotation of nodes in node set ErrNodeExcessRotation-Step1

17 August 2021 0 0 View

MGL tools

20 June 2021 0 0 View

i have some problem with chtMultiRegionSimpleFoam

--> FOAM FATAL ERROR: Maximum number of iterations exceeded From function Foam::scalar Foam::species::thermo::T(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar, Foam::scalar) const, Foam::scalar (Foam::species::thermo::*)(Foam::scalar) const) const [with Thermo = Foam::hConstThermo >; Type = Foam::sensibleEnthalpy; Foam::scalar = double; Foam::species::thermo = Foam::species::thermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy>] in file /home/ubuntu/OpenFOAM/OpenFOAM-4.1/src/thermophysicalModels/specie/lnInclude/thermoI.H at line 66. FOAM aborting #0 Foam::error::printStack(Foam::Ostream&) at ??:? #1 Foam::error::abort() at ??:? #2 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::calculate() at ??:? #3 Foam::heRhoThermo >, Foam::sensibleEnthalpy> > > >::correct() at ??:? #4 ? at ??:? #5 __libc_start_main in "/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6" #6 ? at ??:?

24 March 2021 0 0 View

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10?

What's the best way to measure growth rates in House sparrow chicks from day 2 to day 10? Since, the growth curve from day 2 to 10 won't be like the "Logistic curve" it might not follow logistic...

03 March 2021 1,401 3 View

What is the production process of CaFe ferroalloys?

I looking for ferro calcium production process

03 March 2021 1,755 4 View

Resistor definition in Piezoelectric bimorph with ANSYS workbench

Hello, good day! I am trying to simulate similar bimorph piezoelectric harvester with below commands. However, the output power doesn't change with resistor value. Please help to find the reason. ET,10,CIRCU94,0 !SET UP RESISTOR R,1,100000 !RESISTANCE VALUE TYPE,10 !SET ELEMENT TYPE E,1,2 !CREATE RESISTOR BETWEEN NODES 1 AND 2 Thanks in advance Regards,

02 March 2021 0 0 View

How to normalise data on OPM package from R Studio ?

Good afternoon, I recently used OmniLog from BIOLOG for my experimentations : I tested the metabolism of different strains on 2 types of plates. I have 16 strains of 3 different groups...

02 March 2021 3,584 1 View

Do you know any MR image dataset?

I would like to research on MR images (0.5T and 3T). Can you please suggest some websites that I can download dataset including both 0.5T and 3T MR images? Thank you.

02 March 2021 7,735 3 View

How to grow E.coli on the low salt LB agar plate with 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin?

Hello, I would like to ask how to grow E.coli which resists 50 or 100ug/ml of Blasticidin. I have tried many methods by using low salt Luria-Bertain(LB) agar plate. However, no colonies grow. Let...

01 March 2021 2,027 2 View