This work shows the preparation of ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer/banana starch/Cloisite 20A organoclay (EVA/starch/C20A) nanocomposites by melt processing. Wide angle X-ray diffraction (WAXD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetric analysis were used to characterize the obtained nanocomposites. Mechanical properties were also determined. In addition, the performance of the nanocomposite films under composting was preliminarily studied; it was conducted using the soil burial test method. Despite knowing that the starch is difficult to process by extrusion, nanocomposite films with high homogeneity were obtained. In this case, C20A organoclay acts as an effective surfactant to make the starch natural polymer compatible with the EVA synthetic polymer. The good compatibility between EVA, starch and C20A clay was also deduced by the formation of intercalated and intercalated-exfoliated structures determined by WAXD and FE-SEM. Physical evidence of the damage in EVA/starch/C20A nanocomposite films after the composting test was observed. It is worth noting that despite the absence of starch, the EVA/C20A nanocomposite film, used as a control, also showed surface damage. This behavior is related to the organic modifier linked to clay C20A, which contains molecules derived from fatty acids that can be used as a food source for microorganisms.
Replication is a technique widely used to improve the reliability of applications. State machine replication is a special approach, where a set of computers are kept synchronised in the same state despite of failures that could occur in the system. The Raft algorithm can be used to implement a total order delivery protocol, delivering requests at the same order at all replicas, which is fundamental since in this approach all replicas must execute the same sequence of requests to present the same evolution in their states. Raft is easy to understand and implement, when compared to the Paxos algorithm. On the other hand, virtualisation can be seen as a technique that helps the development of reliable applications since it maintains each virtual machine (VM) isolated from the others. Virtualisation in data centres is changing from the traditional VMs to containers. In this context, this paper proposes KRaft, an incorporation of Raft in Kubernetes, a system that manages containers. After an evaluation of performance and resource consumption of KRaft, we found that it presents performance close to Raft executing on physical machines. Moreover, KRaft demands more network transmission while Raft executed in physical machines needs more processing power and memory. 相似文献
Studies about kinetics and modeling of production parameters for biosurfactants are essential to the development of efficient processes from an economic point of view. In this sense, this work evaluated the performance of four nonstructured models to explain the experimental data for biomass growth, substrate consumption, and rhamnolipid production using glycerol as carbon source and a Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain. The kinetic parameters of each model were estimated using a global search method known as genetic algorithm and numerical discretization of differential equations by the Runge–Kutta 4th order method. The main result of this study showed that the Monod model best represented the experimental data, with μmax values of 0.06 h−1, KS of 50.8 g L−1, YX/S of 0.43 g g−1, and YP/X equal to 0.017 g g−1. 相似文献
Ultimate pH (pHu) is an indicator that influences post-mortem meat quality. We studied physiological and biochemical changes of steaks obtained from Nellore bulls (Bos indicus) during post-mortem ageing. To this, Longissimus lumborum (LL) muscles were classified into three groups: Normal-pHu (≤5.79), Intermediate-pHu (5.80–6.29) and High-pHu (≥6.30) groups, portioned into steaks, vacuum packaged and matured at 2 °C for 0, 7, 14, 21 and 28 days. High-pHu steaks exhibited impaired colour stability and were darker compared to the other groups. High- and Normal-pHu steaks showed improved tenderness and myofibrillar fragmentation linked to proteolysis. Intermediate-pHu steaks were associated with a lower meat tenderness and decreased collagen solubility. High-pHu steaks retained a high pH during ageing and increased water-holding capacity. These findings provide evidence that highlight pHu as a strategy for the classification of pHu-dependent beef quality from Nellore bulls that can be adopted by the Brazilian meat industry. 相似文献
Food Science and Biotechnology - Medicinal plants with antimicrobial action have been investigated for uses against biofilms, among which, Cymbopogon nardus, citronella, stands out as a promising... 相似文献
Disulfide-rich macrocyclic peptides—cyclotides, for example—represent a promising class of molecules with potential therapeutic use. Despite their potential their efficient synthesis at large scale still represents a major challenge. Here we report new chemoenzymatic strategies using peptide ligase variants—inter alia, omniligase-1—for the efficient and scalable one-pot cyclization and folding of the native cyclotides MCoTI-II, kalata B1 and variants thereof, as well as of the θ-defensin RTD-1. The synthesis of the kB1 variant T20K was successfully demonstrated at multi-gram scale. The existence of several ligation sites for each macrocycle makes this approach highly flexible and facilitates both the larger-scale manufacture and the engineering of bioactive, grafted cyclotide variants, therefore clearly offering a valuable and powerful extension of the existing toolbox of enzymes for peptide head-to-tail cyclization. 相似文献