Pacific whiting, with a maximum sustainable yield between 150,000 and 250,000 metric tons, is the largest stock of fish found off Oregon. The majority of the fish are processed into surimi. Hundreds of variables could potentially affect surimi quality (gel strength). Alternative harvesting and processing input combinations, as well as...
Sudden changes occur where the mean values associated with two adjacent non-overlapping
windows of data are anomalously different, and the transition between the
window means occurs over a scale that is small relative to the scale of the windows.
Positions of sudden changes can be economically retrieved. The sudden change...
It was the goal of this research to determine if sago
starch could be used to replace wheat flour as an adhesive
extender of Urea-formaldehyde plywood adhesives through
either chemical modification of the starch or modification
of the adhesive formulation strategy. Guiding principles of
the research would be that a...