New Technology for Improved Quality Control and Security of Process Operations

1991 ◽  
pp. 228-234
Author(s):  
D. J. Sandoz
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Process Operations

scholarly journals An assessment of post-harvest fish losses and preservation practices in Siavonga district, Southern Zambia

2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahya Maulu ◽  
Oliver J. Hasimuna ◽  
Concilia Monde ◽  
Malawo Mweemba
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Cold Storage ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Food Product ◽  
Weather Conditions ◽  
Product Safety ◽  
Total Catch ◽  
Post Harvest ◽  
Self Development ◽  
Fish Product

Abstract Fish is an extremely perishable food product which requires proper handling soon after harvest. The present study was aimed at assessing post-harvest fish losses and preservation practices in Siavonga district, Southern Zambia. Structured and semi-structured questionnaires were used to collect data on post-harvest fish losses and preservation practices from aquaculture producers, artisanal, and commercial fishers. All the fishers who landed on the lakeshore were interviewed, while aquaculture producers were randomly selected based on the information provided by the local department of fisheries. The results of the study revealed that all the fishers experienced post-harvest fish losses at varying degrees with those losing up to 10% of the total catch being in the majority. In contrast, aquaculture producers did not report any post-harvest fish losses. Most aquaculture producers commonly used chilling as preservation practice contrary to artisanal and commercial fishers who commonly used smoking and sun sun-drying respectively. Furthermore, fish product safety and quality control were poorly practiced in the district. Lack of cold storage facilities and fluctuating weather conditions were the major challenges impacting fish post-harvest activities. Therefore, to curb the loss of revenue due to post-harvest fish losses, we propose the introduction of new technology, self-development skills for fishing communities, and enhanced access to refrigeration facilities.

scholarly journals USE AND OPTIMISATION OF PAID CROWDSOURCING FOR THE COLLECTION OF GEODATA

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B4 ◽  
pp. 253-257
Author(s):  
V. Walter ◽  
D. Laupheimer ◽  
D. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Business Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Business ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

Crowdsourcing is a new technology and a new business model that will change the way in which we work in many fields in the future. Employers divide and source out their work to a huge number of anonymous workers on the Internet. The division and outsourcing is not a trivial process but requires the definition of complete new workflows – from the definition of subtasks, to the execution and quality control. A popular crowdsourcing project in the field of collection of geodata is OpenStreetMap, which is based on the work of unpaid volunteers. Crowdsourcing projects that are based on the work of unpaid volunteers need an active community, whose members are convinced about the importance of the project and who have fun to collaborate. This can only be realized for some tasks. In the field of geodata collection many other tasks exist, which can in principle be solved with crowdsourcing, but where it is difficult to find a sufficient large number of volunteers. Other incentives must be provided in these cases, which can be monetary payments.

scholarly journals A New Predictive Technology for Perinatal Stem Cell Isolation Suited for Cell Therapy Approaches

Micromachines ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 782
Author(s):  
Silvia Zia ◽  
Giulia Martini ◽  
Valeria Pizzuti ◽  
Alessia Maggio ◽  
Giuliana Simonazzi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Stem Cells ◽  
Quality Control ◽  
Stem Cell ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Cell Isolation ◽  
Individual Variability ◽  
Label Free ◽  
Differentiation Potential ◽  
Proliferation Ability ◽  
Stem Cell Isolation

The use of stem cells for regenerative applications and immunomodulatory effect is increasing. Amniotic epithelial cells (AECs) possess embryonic-like proliferation ability and multipotent differentiation potential. Despite the simple isolation procedure, inter-individual variability and different isolation steps can cause differences in isolation yield and cell proliferation ability, compromising reproducibility observations among centers and further applications. We investigated the use of a new technology as a diagnostic tool for quality control on stem cell isolation. The instrument label-free separates cells based on their physical characteristics and, thanks to a micro-camera, generates a live fractogram, the fingerprint of the sample. Eight amniotic membranes were processed by trypsin enzymatic treatment and immediately analysed. Two types of profile were generated: a monomodal and a bimodal curve. The first one represented the unsuccessful isolation with all recovered cell not attaching to the plate; while for the second type, the isolation process was successful, but we discovered that only cells in the second peak were alive and resulted adherent. We optimized a Quality Control (QC) method to define the success of AEC isolation using the fractogram generated. This predictive outcome is an interesting tool for laboratories and cell banks that isolate and cryopreserve fetal annex stem cells for research and future clinical applications.

scholarly journals Construction technology and quality control of double layer continuous paving of cement stabilized macadam base

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jin Ma
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Double Layer ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Construction Technology ◽  
Construction Quality ◽  
Lower Base ◽  
Contraction Joint ◽  
Interlayer Bonding ◽  
Construction Efficiency

Abstract: the construction method of continuous paving of the upper and lower base of the water stable macadam base can improve the construction efficiency, overcome the quality problems of the traditional layered paving of the upper and lower base, such as untimely curing, slow construction, poor interlayer bonding, contraction joint and interlayer, so as to ensure the construction quality of the water stable macadam. It is also the promotion and application of new technology.

scholarly journals USE AND OPTIMISATION OF PAID CROWDSOURCING FOR THE COLLECTION OF GEODATA

2016 ◽  
Vol XLI-B4 ◽  
pp. 253-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Walter ◽  
D. Laupheimer ◽  
D. Fritsch
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Business Model ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
The Future ◽  
New Business ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
The Way

Crowdsourcing is a new technology and a new business model that will change the way in which we work in many fields in the future. Employers divide and source out their work to a huge number of anonymous workers on the Internet. The division and outsourcing is not a trivial process but requires the definition of complete new workflows – from the definition of subtasks, to the execution and quality control. A popular crowdsourcing project in the field of collection of geodata is OpenStreetMap, which is based on the work of unpaid volunteers. Crowdsourcing projects that are based on the work of unpaid volunteers need an active community, whose members are convinced about the importance of the project and who have fun to collaborate. This can only be realized for some tasks. In the field of geodata collection many other tasks exist, which can in principle be solved with crowdsourcing, but where it is difficult to find a sufficient large number of volunteers. Other incentives must be provided in these cases, which can be monetary payments.

Remote monitoring of well site biostratigraphy

2015 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 469
Author(s):  
Gunilla Gard ◽  
Jason Crux ◽  
Bernard Lee ◽  
Catherine Belgarde
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Gulf Of Mexico ◽  
Data Acquisition ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Remote Monitoring ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Health And Safety ◽  
File Transfers ◽  
Conventional Microscopy ◽  
Data Acquisition Process

Real-time well site biostratigraphy monitors the stratigraphic progress of drilling wells and can show if the well is conforming or deviating from predicted stratigraphy; it can also show whether total depth criteria have been met. New technology implemented by BHP Billiton Petroleum on wells in the Gulf of Mexico make it possible to undertake well site biostratigraphy remotely. An automated microscope has been developed that can scan and photograph nannofossil slides at a quality almost indistinguishable from conventional microscopy. A technician present at the well makes a slide from ditch cuttings and places it on the microscope, where software scans the slide at several focus levels, compresses the files and transfers the images to the office. A biostratigrapher in the office looks at the images and makes taxonomic identifications. When implemented on the first well, the technology provided immediate results by being the first data acquisition process to recognise that a section was faulted out. Remote well site biostratigraphy also creates a verifiable record, making it possible to quality-control biostratigraphic interpretations; it also frees up space on the rig and improves health and safety for biostratigraphers. Delays in file transfers from the rig to the office are being addressed by reducing the size of the image files by discriminating the fossils from the background.

Microfabrication research at the National Submicron Facility

1983 ◽  
Vol 41 ◽  
pp. 86-89
Author(s):  
E.D. Wolf
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuits ◽  
Particle Physics ◽  
High Speed ◽  
New Technology ◽  
High Energy ◽  
High Energy Particle ◽  
New Science ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Intermediate Domain ◽  
Circuit Function

Most microelectronics devices and circuits operate faster, consume less power, execute more functions and cost less per circuit function when the feature-sizes internal to the devices and circuits are made smaller. This is part of the stimulus for the Very High-Speed Integrated Circuits (VHSIC) program. There is also a need for smaller, more sensitive sensors in a wide range of disciplines that includes electrochemistry, neurophysiology and ultra-high pressure solid state research. There is often fundamental new science (and sometimes new technology) to be revealed (and used) when a basic parameter such as size is extended to new dimensions, as is evident at the two extremes of smallness and largeness, high energy particle physics and cosmology, respectively. However, there is also a very important intermediate domain of size that spans from the diameter of a small cluster of atoms up to near one micrometer which may also have just as profound effects on society as “big” physics.

Characterization of RF Sputtered ZnO Piezoelectric Films Using Transmission Electron Microscope

1975 ◽  
Vol 33 ◽  
pp. 86-87
Author(s):  
Kemining W. Yeh ◽  
Richard S. Muller ◽  
Wei-Kuo Wu ◽  
Jack Washburn
Keyword(s):  
Integrated Circuit ◽  
Acoustic Waves ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Surface Acoustic Waves ◽  
Electromechanical Properties ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Saw Devices ◽  
Transmission Electron ◽  
High Degree

Considerable and continuing interest has been shown in the thin film transducer fabrication for surface acoustic waves (SAW) in the past few years. Due to the high degree of miniaturization, compatibility with silicon integrated circuit technology, simplicity and ease of design, this new technology has played an important role in the design of new devices for communications and signal processing. Among the commonly used piezoelectric thin films, ZnO generally yields superior electromechanical properties and is expected to play a leading role in the development of SAW devices.

Gut microbiome a promising target for management of respiratory diseases

2020 ◽  
Vol 477 (14) ◽  
pp. 2679-2696
Author(s):  
Riddhi Trivedi ◽  
Kalyani Barve
Keyword(s):  
Respiratory Diseases ◽  
New Technology ◽  
Bacterial Flora ◽  
Systemic Circulation ◽  
The Body ◽  
Lung Pathology ◽  
Promising Target ◽  
Current Therapies ◽  
Intestinal Microbial Flora ◽  
On Chip

The intestinal microbial flora has risen to be one of the important etiological factors in the development of diseases like colorectal cancer, obesity, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, anxiety and Parkinson's. The emergence of the association between bacterial flora and lungs led to the discovery of the gut–lung axis. Dysbiosis of several species of colonic bacteria such as Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes and transfer of these bacteria from gut to lungs via lymphatic and systemic circulation are associated with several respiratory diseases such as lung cancer, asthma, tuberculosis, cystic fibrosis, etc. Current therapies for dysbiosis include use of probiotics, prebiotics and synbiotics to restore the balance between various species of beneficial bacteria. Various approaches like nanotechnology and microencapsulation have been explored to increase the permeability and viability of probiotics in the body. The need of the day is comprehensive study of mechanisms behind dysbiosis, translocation of microbiota from gut to lung through various channels and new technology for evaluating treatment to correct this dysbiosis which in turn can be used to manage various respiratory diseases. Microfluidics and organ on chip model are emerging technologies that can satisfy these needs. This review gives an overview of colonic commensals in lung pathology and novel systems that help in alleviating symptoms of lung diseases. We have also hypothesized new models to help in understanding bacterial pathways involved in the gut–lung axis as well as act as a futuristic approach in finding treatment of respiratory diseases caused by dysbiosis.

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