Vitamin E constituents of Weaning Foods from Germinated Cereals and Legumes

Four weaning food formulations prepared from 70% 72-hr germinated rice/corn and 30% 48-hr germinated mungbean/cowpea were studied for tocopherol constituents and compared to ungerminated controls. γ-TocopheroIs were the major constituents of the mungbean-supplemented samples. The cowpea-supplemented foods contained a predominance of δ-tocopherols followed closely by γ-tocopherols, α-Tocopherols were comparatively higher in corn- than in rice-formulations. Tocopherols in the weaning foods decreased due to germination especially the γ-tocopherols of germinated corn-mungbean.     

Puffing Effects on Functional Properties of Amaranthus paniculatas (Rajgeera) Seed Flour

Among functional properties studied, water- anf fat-holding capacities were higher for puffed grain flour. Gelation was not affected, while foaming was adversely affected by puffing. A decrease in viscosity of flour pastes also resulted due to puffing.     

Heat transfers in treatment furnaces

For heat treating cylindrical metal billets, their lay-out in a furnace usually resembles that of an in-line heat-exchanger tube bank, with the air flows orthogonal to the billets. For maximum effectiveness of transferring thermal energy from the forced convecting air to the billets, the optimal horizontal pitch-to-diameter ratio for the billets should be 1·33 ± 0·05. For this same purpose it is advantageous to employ a vertical spacing (between the billets) as large as can be permitted for a given load of billets.     

Improvement options for a former water-driven-mill building now used as a theatre

After investigating the financial feasibility (and so abandoning the idea) of providing self-generated electricity using hydro-power, it was recommended that the top priority should be the direct connection of an electricity supply, from the mains grid to the building; this would cost £8800. Thereby, the theatre would receive a relatively unrestricted supply of electricity at cheaper unit tariffs. This improvement should be followed by the most urgent repairs being carried out to the building fabric, at an estimated cost of £6990. These repairs are necessary to ensure the continued integrity of the building's structure, thereby inhibiting the on-going deterioration.

The energy and financial appraisal also suggested a priority listing of overall improvements to the building in order to achieve a significant, economically justifiable reduction in energy demand; the recommended options are estimated to cost in total £39819. However, the capital cost of such an upgrading would only be recouped, and the theatre achieve a sustainable future, if the building were to be used more intensively and for a wider range of activities than at present in order to increase its revenue significantly.

All prices as stated are those at August 1991.     

Structural vibrations of hydraulic structures at the boundary with fluid regions with a complex shape (three-dimensional problem)

Translated from Gidrotehnicheskoe Stroitel'stvo, No. 3, pp. 27–31, March, 1992.     

Mobile robot control by neural networks using self-supervisedlearning

A reinforcement learning algorithm based on supervised learning is described. It uses associative search to discover and learn actions that make the system perform a desired task. One problem with associative search is that the system's actions are often inconsistent. In the searching process, the system's actions are always decided stochastically, so the system cannot perform learned actions more than once, even if they have been determined to be suitable actions for the desired task. To solve this problem, a neural network that can predict an evaluation of an action and control the influence of the stochastic element is used. Results from computer simulations using the algorithms to control a mobile robot are described     

Distribution of vanadium and nickel in crudes from the Prorva zone of Kazakhstan

Translated from Khimiya i Tekhnologiya Topliv i Masel, No. 12, pp. 15–16, December, 1992.