Marine feed ingredients derived from cephalopods (e.g., squid) and crustaceans (e.g., krill) are commercially used to improve the palatability of shrimp diets. Increase in global demand for shrimps has resulted in overfishing of these marine organisms and is a matter of concern. Insect protein hydrolysate could be a sustainable alternative for the possible replacement of these marine feed ingredients. During this study, four formulations: diet A (control: not containing any palatability enhancer), diet B (containing squid meal and krill oil), diet C (containing 1% insect protein hydrolysate), and diet D (containing 2% insect protein hydrolysate) were tested for (1) time required by first subject to begin feeding (time to strike) and (2) palatability in Litopenaeus vannamei. Additionally, the chemical composition of all four diet formulations was also analyzed. Results indicate that all diets had similar crude composition. The major essential amino acids in all diets were leucine and lysine, whereas eicosapentaenoic acid was the major omega-3 fatty acid in all diets. There were no significant differences between the mean time to strike for all the tested formulations. Palatability of tested formulations was found in the following order: diet D > diet C > diet B = diet A (p < 0.05), indicating that addition of squid meal and krill oil has no effect on palatability in comparison to control, whereas inclusion of insect protein hydrolysates significantly improves the palatability of formulations. Palatability enhancement potential of insect protein hydrolysate could be attributed to the high free amino acid content and water solubility in comparison to squid meal. 相似文献
The present work examines the influence of magnetohydrodynamic field on natural convection phenomena inside a porous square enclosure with a pair of embedded hot circular cylinders. Numerical investigations are performed to understand the effects of interspacing distance between the embedded cylinders, Hartmann number, Rayleigh number and Darcy number on the thermal transport process and the total irreversibility generation. It is observed that the isotherm distribution is strongly affected by the presence of magnetic field although the distribution of streamlines remains independent of the strength of magnetic field. This underlines the fact that magnetic field strongly influences the heat transfer process and entropy generation characteristics. It reveals that the natural convection is suppressed in the presence of a higher magnetic field as evident from the reduction in Nusselt number. It is observed that an increase in the spacing between the cylinders increases the heat transfer rate, and moreover, the effect of the magnetic field on heat transfer is more pronounced at higher interspacing distance between the embedded cylinders. The heat transfer rate increases significantly with the increase in the permeability of the medium. The entropy generation rate is independent of the strength of applied magnetic field. Further, the contribution of the entropy generation owing to friction is found to be negligible in total irreversibility obtained at lower values of Rayleigh number irrespective of Darcy number. However, the contribution of irreversibility owing to heat transfer is found to be minimal at higher values of Rayleigh number.
This paper investigates switching of one beam by another in a Kerr type nonlinear Mach–Zehnder interferometer (NMZI) with two input ports and one output port. The present investigation has been carried out using the beam propagation method (BPM). The paper presents a detailed account on the procedures used to choose the parameters of the NMZI to make it behave like a NOT gate (inverter), an AND gate, an amplifier and a wavelength converter. The paper also gives details on the manipulation of the operating inputs of the NMZI to desired values. It is shown that the operating values of both the inputs of the NMZI can simultaneously be increased/decreased by decreasing/increasing the nonlinearity coefficient of nonlinear arm of the NMZI. Variation of NMZI length varies the operating value of only the first input, keeping the second unchanged, while variation of NMZI offset varies the operating value of only the second, keeping the first unchanged. The paper also gives a detailed account on amplification of the NMZI amplifier/wavelength converter. The present investigation is useful from the scientific as well as engineering point of view. 相似文献
This paper presents a new interpretation of a digital circle in terms of the distribution of square numbers in discrete intervals. The number-theoretic analysis that leads to many important properties of a digital circle succinctly captures the original perspectives of digital calculus and digital geometry for its visualization and characterization. To demonstrate the capability and efficacy of the proposed method, two simple algorithms for the construction of digital circles, based on simple number-theoretic concepts, have been reported. Both the algorithms require only a few primitive operations and are completely devoid of any floating-point computation. To speed up the computation, especially for circular arcs of high radii, a hybridized version of these two algorithms has been given. Experimental results have been furnished to elucidate the analytical power and algorithmic efficiency of the proposed approach. It has been also shown, how and why, for sufficiently high radius, the number-theoretic technique can expedite a circle construction algorithm. 相似文献
A simplified method for preparation of electrodeless discharge lamp for uranium isotopes with specific concerns for 232U is described. Micro-gram quantities of solid uranium oxides and aqueous solution of uranium nitrate have been used as a starting material for in situ synthesis of uranium tetraiodide. High temperature iodination reaction is carried out in the presence of inert gas neon. By careful design, the preparation time and surface area of quartz reaction tubes have been reduced considerably. The latter decreases the level of contamination which has a direct bearing on the operational lifetime of the lamps. Incorporation of steps to purify the product from an unwanted material improved the stability of the lamps. The procedure provides a safe and convenient way of handling 232U in particular but can be extended in general to any actinides having radioactivity similar to that of freshly separated 232U. Characteristic emission of uranium isotopes have been recorded by Fourier Transform Spectrometer to show the satisfactory operation of the lamps as well as their usage for studying emission spectra of the specific isotope. 相似文献