Density of foods

Krishnamani, R. and Kumar, A. (2000). Phytoecology of Lion-tailed macaque (Macaca silenus) habitats in Karnataka, India floristic structure and density of food trees. Primate Report, 5 27-56. 

The density of food material is expressed in two ways, solid density and bulk density. Solid density is the mass of the solid over the volume of the solid excluding the air voids ... 

Miles et al. [45] and Choi and Okos [17] proposed the above equation for predicting the density of food materials. However, this equation has limited uses in the cases where there is no air phase present and no interaction between the phases. Rahman [69] has extended the theoretical model, introducing the pore volume and interaction term into the above equation and the equation for apparent density is... 

Reverse Osmosis. The process of osmosis is used by plants to obtain food and moisture from the soil. The density of the sap in the roots of the plant is greater than that of the soil water surrounding it. The root wall provides a semipermeable membrane, and the difference in suction across it is the osmotic pressure. 

In the last few decades, several epidemiological studies have shown that a dietary intake of foods rich in natural antioxidants correlates with reduced risk of coronary heart disease particularly, a negative association between consumption of polyphenol-rich foods and cardiovascular diseases has been demonstrated. This association has been partially explained on the basis of the fact that polyphenols interrupt lipid peroxidation induced by reactive oxygen species (ROS). A large body of studies has shown that oxidative modification of the low-density fraction of lipoprotein (LDL) is implicated... 

Exposure for7 days resulted in disintegration of many cells, reduced cell density, and reduced carbon fixation particle size distribution altered, and this could affect availability of food for particle-feeding herbivores 3... 

Lozano, J.E., Rotstein, E., and Urbicain, MJ. 1983. Shrinkage, porosity, and bulk density of foodstuffs at changing moisture contents. J. Food Sci. 48, 1497-1502. 

Direct behavioral evidence of how stored-product insects move among patches is limited, but what is available shows that stored-product pests readily leave patches of food, can find and exploit multiple patches, and that these processes are influenced by a variety of endogenous and exogenous factors. The time Cryptolestes ferrugineus spent in refugia has been shown to be influenced by strain, sex, and age (Cox and Parish, 1991 Cox et al., 1989, 1990). A variety of factors have been shown to influence the decision by red flour beetles to leave food patches, including insect density... 

Ziegler-Natta catalysts for, 26 542-543 Linear low density polyethylene food packaging, 18 40 Linear models, 6 29 Linear momentum, exponents of... 

Laboratory analysis of site soils should be made to determine the presence and population density of naturally occurring microbes that are capable of degrading the contaminant. At a minimum, these analyses should include plate counts to determine the relative number of microbes of several types, the substrate (food) type that reflects the type of chemicals they are likely to consume, and if toxic substances are present. 

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