Use of Olive Oil Industrial By-Product for Pasta Enrichment

Background: During recent years food industries generally produce a large volume of wastes both solid and liquid, representing a disposal and potential environmental pollution problem.Objective: The goal of the study was to optimize, from both sensory and nutritional points of view, the formulation of durum wheat spaghetti enriched with an olive oi

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The Mobile Insulin Titration Intervention (MITI) for Insulin Glargine Titration in an Urban, Low-Income Population: Randomized Controlled Trial Protocol

BackgroundPatients on insulin glargine typically visit a clinician to obtain advice on how to adjust their insulin dose.These multiple clinic visits can be costly and time-consuming, particularly for low-income patients.It may be feasible to achieve insulin titration through text messages and phone calls with patients instead of face-to-face clinic

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Thermodynamics of Fatigue: Degradation-Entropy Generation Methodology for System and Process Characterization and Failure Analysis

Formulated is a new instantaneous fatigue model and predictor based on ab initio irreversible thermodynamics.The method combines the first and second laws of thermodynamics with the Helmholtz free energy, then applies the result to the degradation-entropy generation theorem to relate a desired fatigue measure—stress, Swim Tops strain, cycles

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