IMPACT OF PACKAGING MATERIALS ON THE SHELF LIFE OF ENRICHED AADUN (MAIZE MEAL SNACK COMMONLY CONSUMED BY THE SOUTHWESTERN REGION OF NIGERIA)

Impact of Packaging Materials on the Shelf Life of Enriched Aadun (Maize Meal Snack commonly consumed by the Southwestern region of Nigeria)

Optimum condition at 64.80% maize flour, 20% groundnut paste and 13.20 % palm oil was formulated to produced nutritionally enhanced aadun snack.The snack was stored in the different storage materials namely, sweet prayer plant leaves (control) which is usually used by most locals, low density polyethylene (LDPE), high density polyethylene (HDPE) an

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High-Performance Flexible Sensor with Sensitive Strain/Magnetic Dual-Mode Sensing Characteristics Based on Sodium Alginate and Carboxymethyl Cellulose

Flexible sensors can measure various stimuli Mounting Hardware owing to their exceptional flexibility, stretchability, and electrical properties.However, the integration of multiple stimuli into a single sensor for measurement is challenging.To address this issue, the sensor developed in this study utilizes the natural biopolymers sodium alginate a

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Novel Oversampling Technique for Improving Signal-to-Quantization Noise Ratio on Accelerometer-Based Smart Jerk Sensors in CNC Applications

Jerk monitoring, defined as the first derivative of acceleration, has become a major issue in computerized numeric Compression Tops controlled (CNC) machines.Several works highlight the necessity of measuring jerk in a reliable way for improving production processes.Nowadays, the computation of jerk is done by finite differences of the acceleration

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