scholarly journals Bran-Enriched Milled Durum Wheat Fractions Obtained Using Innovative Micronization and Air-Classification Pilot Plants

Foods ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 1796
Author(s):  
Alessandro Cammerata ◽  
Francesco Sestili ◽  
Barbara Laddomada ◽  
Gabriella Aureli

Dietary guidelines recommend the consumption of unprocessed, or minimally processed, wheat foods because they are richer in health-promoting components (i.e., minerals, vitamins, lignans, phytoestrogens, and phenolic compounds) compared to traditionally refined products. The design and implementation of technological solutions applied to the milling process are becoming a key requirement to obtain less refined mill products characterized by healthier nutritional profiles. This study presents the development of an upgraded micronization plant and of a modified air-classification plant to produce several novel types of durum wheat milling fractions, each enriched in bran particles of different sizes (from 425 µm > Ø to Ø < 180 µm) and percentage ratios. A preliminary quality assessment of the milling fractions was carried out by measuring yield percentages and ash content, the latter being related to detect the presence of bran particles. A wide array of milling fractions with different original particle size compositions was provided through the study of the process. Results indicate the ability of the novel pilot plants to produce several types of less refined milling fractions of potential interest for manufacturing durum wheat end-products beneficial for human health.

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 9-17
Author(s):  
ALESSANDRA GERLI ◽  
LEENDERT C. EIGENBROOD

A novel method was developed for the determination of linting propensity of paper based on printing with an IGT printability tester and image analysis of the printed strips. On average, the total fraction of the surface removed as lint during printing is 0.01%-0.1%. This value is lower than those reported in most laboratory printing tests, and more representative of commercial offset printing applications. Newsprint paper produced on a roll/blade former machine was evaluated for linting propensity using the novel method and also printed on a commercial coldset offset press. Laboratory and commercial printing results matched well, showing that linting was higher for the bottom side of paper than for the top side, and that linting could be reduced on both sides by application of a dry-strength additive. In a second case study, varying wet-end conditions were used on a hybrid former machine to produce four paper reels, with the goal of matching the low linting propensity of the paper produced on a machine with gap former configuration. We found that the retention program, by improving fiber fines retention, substantially reduced the linting propensity of the paper produced on the hybrid former machine. The papers were also printed on a commercial coldset offset press. An excellent correlation was found between the total lint area removed from the bottom side of the paper samples during laboratory printing and lint collected on halftone areas of the first upper printing unit after 45000 copies. Finally, the method was applied to determine the linting propensity of highly filled supercalendered paper produced on a hybrid former machine. In this case, the linting propensity of the bottom side of paper correlated with its ash content.


Author(s):  
S.Tamil Selvan ◽  
M. Sundararajan

In this paper presented Design and implementation of CNTFET based Ternary 1x1 RAM memories high-performance digital circuits. CNTFET Ternary 1x1 SRAM memories is implement using 32nm technology process. The CNTFET decresase the diameter and performance matrics like delay,power and power delay, The CNTFET Ternary 6T SRAM cell consists of two cross coupled Ternary inverters one is READ and another WRITE operations of the Ternary 6T SRAM cell are performed with the Tritline using HSPICE and Tanner tools in this tool is performed high accuracy. The novel based work can be used for Low Power Application and Access time is less of compared to the conventional CMOS Technology. The CNTFET Ternary 6T SRAM array module (1X1) in 32nm technology consumes only 0.412mW power and data access time is about 5.23ns.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 199-208
Author(s):  
Archana Rani ◽  
Naresh Grover

This paper deals with the novel design and implementation of asynchronous microprocessor by using HDL on Vivado tool wherein it has the capability of handling even I-Type, R-Type and Jump instructions with multiplier instruction packet. Moreover, it uses separate memory for instructions and data read-write that can be changed at any time. The complete design has been synthesized and simulated using Vivado. The complete design is targeted on Xilinx Virtex-7 FPGA. This paper more focuses on the use of Vivado Tool for advanced FPGA device. By using Vivado we get enhaced analysis result for better view of properly Route Placed design.


Foods ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (10) ◽  
pp. 1474 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dario Donno ◽  
Federica Turrini

Changes in lifestyle and demographics, rising consumer incomes, and shifting preferences due to advanced knowledge about the relationships between food and health contribute to generate new needs in the food supply. Today, the role of food is not only intended as hunger satisfaction and nutrient supply but also as an opportunity to prevent nutrition-related diseases and improve physical and mental well-being. For this reason, there is a growing interest in the novel or less well-known plant foods that offer an opportunity for health maintenance. Recently, interest in plant foods and underutilized fruits is continuously growing, and agrobiodiversity exploitation offers effective and extraordinary potentialities. Plant foods could be an important source of health-promoting compounds and functional food ingredients with beneficial properties: the description of the quality and physicochemical traits, the identification and quantification of bioactive compounds, and the evaluation of their biological activities are important to assess plant food efficacy as functional foods or source of food supplement ingredients.


Medicina ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 39 ◽  
Author(s):  
Višnja Đorđić ◽  
Predrag Božić ◽  
Ivana Milanović ◽  
Snežana Radisavljević ◽  
Maja Batez ◽  
...  

Background and objectives: The effectiveness of short-term focused educational programs to change health behaviors across large populations seems to be poorly described so far. The main aim of the present study was to evaluate an age-specific 45-min educational program, designed in accordance with the current U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and U.S. Department of Agriculture dietary guidelines and physical activity (PA) guidelines, among adolescents and adults. Materials and Methods: We evaluated the health-promoting lifestyle habits by the Health-Promoting Lifestyle Profile (HPLP-II) at baseline and following 6–8 weeks post-education in a nationally representative sample of Serbian adolescents and adults (n = 3822). Results: The percentage of adolescents eating 3–5 servings of vegetables per day increased at follow-up (20.1% versus 23.1%, p = 0.001), with significantly more adolescents regularly reading food labels (from 12.2% at baseline to 14.2% at follow-up; p = 0.02). Taken together, mean HPLP-II scores in adolescents significantly improved for both diet (0.05 points; p < 0.0001) and PA (0.09 points; p < 0.0001), and for PA in adults (0.08 points; p < 0.0001). Hierarchical multiple regression analysis revealed that our model as a whole (including time of testing as a predictor variable, and age and gender as control variables) explained 3.0% of the variance in mean HPLP-II scores for diet (p = 0.942) and 3.0% for PA (p = 0.285) in adolescents, and 1.1% of the variance in HPLP-II scores for diet (p = 0.781) and 1.9% for PA (p = 0.075) in adults, respectively. Conclusions: It appears that a brief focused education can positively tackle unhealthy lifestyles in promoting good health in general population. Different modes of interactive communication used here appeared to strengthen participants’ capacities for lifestyle changes.


2001 ◽  
Vol 149 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-282 ◽  
Author(s):  
Othmane Merah ◽  
Eliane Deléens ◽  
Irenée Souyris ◽  
Philippe Monneveux

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
pp. 242-250 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberto Ciccoritti ◽  
Giovanna Terracciano ◽  
Alessandro Cammerata ◽  
Daniela Sgrulletta ◽  
Viviana Del Frate ◽  
...  

This work describes a process for producing durum wheat flour fractions with high potential nutritional value using grain pre-milling hydrothermal treatment and ultra-fine grinding (micronization), coupled with air classification. The difference of bioactive value of the flour fractions in relation to dietary fibre and phenolic compounds was monitored on four durum wheat cultivars by analysing total arabinoxylans, water extractable arabinoxylans and 5- n-alkylresorcinols. The extractability of the analysed compounds was most significantly affected by hydrothermal treatment. On average, the hydrothermally treated kernels compared with the untreated ones presented a marked increase of water extractable arabinoxylans and alkylresorcinols (about 25 and 48%, respectively), whereas slightly lower total arabinoxylans content (about 9%) was detected. The air classification applied on micronized kernels produced two flour fractions, coarse and fine, with the last showing, irrespective of the hydrothermal treatment, an increment of alkylresorcinols (24 and 22% in untreated and treated samples) and of total arabinoxylans (13 and 20% in untreated and treated samples) in comparison with the coarse one. The fine fraction (particles ≤ 120 µm), resulting richer in bioactive compounds, provides an interesting raw material to enrich traditional semolina in which, due to the removal of the external layers, the losses of total arabinoxylans and of alkylresorcinols were more than 60 and 90% alkylresorcinols, respectively, if compared with whole wheat grain.


With the presence of computer and internet, a developing variety of hoodlums are utilizing the web to spread a wide extend of illicit materials and wrong information universally in mysterious manner, making criminal personality following troublesome in the cybercrime examination handle. The virtual world provides criminals with an anonymous environment to conduct malicious activities such as malware, sending random messages, spamming, stealing intellectual property and sending ransom e-mails. All of these activities are text in somehow. Therefore, there is a need for a tool in order to identify the author or creator of this criminality by analyzing the text. Text-based Authorship Attribution techniques are used to identify the most possible author from a bunch of potential suspects of text. In this paper, the novel approach is presented for authorship attribution in English text using ASCII based processing approach Using this ASCII based method for authorship attribution help us to obtain better result in terms of accuracy and computational efficiency. The result is based on the text which is posted on social media considering real world data set.


2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Enriqueta Garcia-Gutierrez ◽  
Paula M. O’Connor ◽  
Ian J. Colquhoun ◽  
Natalia M. Vior ◽  
Juan Miguel Rodríguez ◽  
...  

AbstractBacteriocins are antimicrobial peptides produced by bacteria and their production by health-promoting microbes is regarded as a desirable probiotic trait. We found that Lactobacillus gasseri LM19, a strain isolated from human milk, exhibits antagonistic activity against different enteropathogens and produces several bacteriocins, including a novel bacteriocin, gassericin M. These bacteriocins were purified from culture and synthesised to investigate their activity and potential synergy. L. gasseri LM19 was tested in a complex environment mimicking human colon conditions where it not only survived but expressed the seven bacteriocin genes and produced short chain fatty acids. Metagenomic analysis of these in vitro colon cultures showed that co-inoculation of L. gasseri LM19 with Clostridium perfringens gave profiles with more similarity to controls than to vessels inoculated with C. perfringens alone. This makes L. gasseri LM19 an interesting candidate for further study for maintaining homeostasis in the gut environment.


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