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industry, etc ; analytical methods; engineering; water power; Show all 4 Subjects
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... In the field of renewable-energies, a number of engineering problems are modeled as dynamical systems, and a key issue is the assessment of their stability to external disturbances. Stability analyses typically focus on the asymptotic stability, i.e., the fate of perturbations after long times from their onset. The system behavior at finite-times has attracted much less attention, although it play ...
... Red grape pomace, a wine-making by-product is rich in anthocyanins and has many applications in food and pharmaceutical industry. However, anthocyanins are unstable during processing and storage. This study aimed to investigate the stability of anthocyanins obtained by hydroalcoholic extraction (with and without sorbic acid) and colloidal gas aphrons (CGA) separation; a surfactant (TWEEN20) based ...
... This paper provides an interpretation of the chronology of the Early Later Stone Age (Early LSA) in South Africa and Southern Namibia. The Early LSA tradition first appears in Africa at Border Cave between ∼46 and 44ka, and in Southern Africa this tradition slowly appears to the west, replacing groups producing Middle Stone Age (MSA) technologies. In this region, the latest transformation from MSA ...
industry, etc ; nanocomposites; thermoplastics; topology; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Over decades, the fabrication of flexible poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) based percolative nanocomposites with high piezoelectric performance is of great concern from both academia and industry. However, the issue of sharply declined breakdown strength in percolative nanocomposites poses an obstacle to realizing the full potential of conductive nanofillers in enhancing piezoelectricity. Herein, ...
... Most transition studies are historical in nature and fail to arrive at prospective conclusions about future potential. In this paper we develop a new prospective transition framework, which revolves around the interplay between business models and socio-technical contexts. By looking at the dynamics of increasing returns, industry structure and the role of institutions, we analyze the upscaling po ...
... This paper seeks to better understand the possible paradox of frontrunners in experimental climate governance. This paradox refers to the situation where frontrunners are required to push boundaries in terms of developing governance innovations and to experiment with these, but where, at the same time, a too strong focus on frontrunners may result in a situation where lessons from these experiment ...
... This study analyses the effect of the spatial factor, location, and interaction effects among peer companies, on the productivity growth of agri‐food companies in Spain. With this aim, we build a productivity growth index and apply a multiequational Seemingly Unrelated Regression on a sample of 344 Spanish cooperatives and investor‐owned firms for the period 2010–2012. Our findings show that agri‐ ...
food industry, etc ; antioxidant activity; metabolic engineering; metabolites; microorganisms; preservatives; texturization; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Secondary plant metabolites are extensively used in today’s food industries, for example, as coloring-agents, flavouring-agents or texturizing agents. In particular, metabolites with antioxidative properties find applications as preservatives or anti-browning agents. Today, extraction from plant material represents the major source of these metabolites, but progress in the field of metabolic engin ...
food industry, etc ; automation; biosensors; health services; microbial growth; monitoring; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Understanding the characteristics of microbial growth is of great significance to many fields including in scientific research, the food industry, health care, and agriculture. Many methods have been established to characterize the process of microbial growth. Online and automated methods, in which sample transfer is avoided, are popular because they can facilitate the development of simple, safe, ...
forest industries, etc ; biodegradability; biodegradation; phytotoxicity; polylactic acid; starch; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In this work, the influence of different concentrations of thermoplasticized starch on thermal, mechanical, biodegradation and phytotoxic properties of biodegradable blend carrier composed of poly(lactic acid) and poly(butylene adipate‑co‑terephtalate) was investigated. The results showed that the addition of poly(butylene adipate‑co‑terephtalate) increased elasticity of PLA materials, whereas the ...
industry, etc ; cement; compression strength; concrete; equations; recycling; tensile strength; wastes; Show all 8 Subjects
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... It is necessary to prioritize recycling applications to contribute to the marble industry, ecology, and economy. In the current study, it is seen that the waste marble is used extensively in concrete instead of aggregate and cement. Thus, the aim involved minimizing the harmful effects of waste marble on the environment. Furthermore, the effects of waste marble on the strength of concrete were inv ...
milling industry, etc ; energy; guidelines; mathematical models; milling; powders; rice; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Improvement of critical components for rice mill is one of the issues constraining the development of rice milling industry. Unfortunately, the effect of configuration of rotating shaft on the flow behaviors, collision characteristics and even milling mechanisms of rice particles in a rice mill still remains poorly understood. In this work, motion of spherical particles in a lab-scale horizontal r ...
wine industry, etc ; marketing strategies; markets; music; sensory evaluation; taste; wines; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The pairing of wine with music goes back a long way, starting out with commentators at first merely just using musical metaphors in order to describe the wines they were writing about. In recent years, however, this area of interest has morphed into a growing range of multisensory tasting events in which wine and music are paired deliberately in order to assess, or increasingly to illustrate, the ...
industry, etc ; issues and policy; models; recycling; society; supply chain; Show all 6 Subjects
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... For the last two decades, the topic of sustainable supply chains has evoked considerable interest from academics and practitioners. Within this context, Resources, Conservation and Recycling (RCR) and its two predecessors (Resources and Conservation, and Conservation and Recycling) have provided a platform for the exchange of technological, economic, institutional and policy aspects to help societ ...
energy industry, etc ; electricity; markets; monopoly; politics; renewable energy sources; China; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The political failure of China's first independent regulator in a strategic industry – the State Electricity Regulatory Commission (SERC), 2002–2013 – provides a natural experiment to uncover fundamental challenges to a gradualist approach to electricity market formation. Taking a political institutional approach, we show that while it was largely predictable that the breakup of the monopolistic p ...
... Microcapsules, microspheres and microbeads are widely used in the food industry, pharmacy, agriculture, cosmetics, construction, textile industry and printing to protect immobilized substances against harsh conditions or to mask bad taste, as well as to enable and control the release of substances e.g. active pharmaceutical ingredients. The knowledge of the mechanical properties is a key parameter ...
industry, etc ; consumers (people); genomics; genotyping; Show all 4 Subjects
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... With more than 10 million genotyped customers, the consumer genomics industry is maturing and becoming a mainstream phenomenon. At last, innovations and applications, some unforeseen, are being brought to the masses. ...
industry, etc ; agribusiness; cooperatives; governance; models; Show all 5 Subjects
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... The variety of solutions to organize economic activities is striking, and underexplored. This paper proposes a framework that combines transaction cost and relational contracts models to capture this variety while characterizing some representative forms. The framework distinguishes between organizational structures differing according to the intensity of control exercised over the rights to use r ...
... Supply chain management seeks efficiency. Inefficiencies cause various types of waste and commensurate costs. Supply chain actors differ resulting in proximity issues. Proximity is introduced here as distances on four dimensions; organizational, geographical, cognitive and technological proximity. Industry 4.0 concepts can improve or even worsen each of the introduced proximity dimensions their in ...
industry, etc ; business enterprises; emissions; temperature; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Automotive industry is one of the largest industries all over the world. There are worldwide companies and individual local automotive companies. There are restricted regulations and standards related to automotive industry including emissions. Reduction of emissions is a very important problem. Alternative solutions are offered to reduce the emissions. In this study, reduction of the emissions is ...