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An excellent discussion of the many enzymes occurring in fruits is provided by Dilley (247). Of the numerous enzymes present in fruits, and as in the case of grapes, oxidizing enzymes have received considerable attention from researchers because their activity is usually accompanied by undesirable changes in raw product quality. A complete account of enzyme-catalyzed oxidative browning of fruits and their products is presented by Joslyn and Ponting (248). 

There are two different procedures by which the iteration may be carried out. One may substitute each improved coefficient, along with all the others, into the succeeding equation. This is known as the point successive procedure. Alternatively, one may determine all the unknown coefficients in all the equations using only the set of coefficients determined from the previous iteration. This is known as the point simultaneous procedure. Undesirable convergence properties of the point simultaneous procedure motivated its abandonment early in the research, however. The former procedure converges almost always when the tolerance is not chosen exceedingly small. The tolerance determines when the iteration is stopped. The iterations continue until the maximum change in any coefficient over its... 

Food is one of the most intimate and important components of our chemical environment. Whether we accept or reject food depends mainly on its flavor. Research into the chemistry of desirable and undesirable foods has become very popular the advent of modern instrumentation has introduced rapid changes in the field. 

Note that the volume changes for the last two processes are identical. We note also that for the liquid phases at room temperature k1t is much smaller than 1 atm-1 (e.g., for water at 0°C, kTxT 1 cm3 mol-1, AV 20 cm3 mol-1, and kT / atm w2x 104cm3 mol-1). Similarly, in equation (7.73) k1t < i P-1 (the limit of an ideal-gas phase). Thus, the volume change for the three standard processes is dominated by the terms which originate from the ideal-gas compressibility. Because of this undesirable feature, it is common to abandon these processes when studying the volume of solvation. Almost all researchers who study the solvation phenomena apply one of these standard processes for quantities like the Gibbs energy, entropy and enthalpy of... 

Finally the most rigorous method is the Fault Tree Analysis. In this method, a specific undesired process event such as an explosion is postulated and placed at the top of a tree, from which branches representing all possible precursor events or causes are extended. When basic causes are reached, failure rates are estimated or obtained. While much has been written about Fault Tree Analysis, this method has not been used at our research site because less rigorous methods are more suited to our rapidly changing research environment. It has been extensively used at our production sites, however. 

Interaction among control loops in a multivariable system has been the subject of much research over the last 30 years. All of this work is based on the premise that interaction is undesirable. This is true for setpoint disturbances. We would like to change a setpoint in one loop without affecting the other loops. And if the loops do not interact, each individual loop can be tuned by itself, and the whole, system should be stable if each individual loop is stable. 

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