Search results for " Industry"

FINANCIAL RISKS – A CASE STUDY FOR AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY

2013

In general, financial risks – from operational risk to bankruptcy risk, are important distress for companies from every sector or industry. In this paper we try to measure the financial risk for the most important eight companies that activate in automotive industry. We propose a model in order to evaluate financial risk, by using discriminate analysis, which integrate five of the most important financial indicators: current ratio, return on investment, debt to equity, total assets turnover, working capital to total assets. Based on these results the rank will be very different beside the Global Fortune 500 rank that evaluates company only by the level of revenue.

Impact of processing conditions on functionality of powders prepared from mixed protein system

2020

International audience; The projection of a global human population of around 9.5 billion by 2050 indicates that the demand for animal protein will double during this period. It seems therefore essential in regard to sustainability and food security to search for alternative protein sources that show nutritional and functional quality close to animal protein ones. In that respect, there is a growing interest in utilizing plant proteins as partial replacers of animal proteins in food. The reintroduction of plant proteins into our diet is a solution already envisaged by some vegetarian or flexitarian diets. In order to broaden this practice, one strategy is the use of protein mixes as an ingr…

Search strategies in innovation networks: The case of the Hungarian food industry

2020

In the food sector, open innovation has become of particular interest. This paper considers open innovation search strategies in the food and beverages industry and examines the probability of using different innovation sources with respect to the type of innovation. Although the information search for new ideas, tools and solutions in the innovation process regarding the scope and depth is well explored and interpreted in the literature, the probability of using the different sources with respect to type of innovation is rarely investigated. To answer these questions, first a probit, then OLS regression model is adopted, in order to understand the chance of a specific source of information…

Bacterial bioaerosol in the warehousing area of food industry facility

2014

Branża spożywcza zwraca coraz większą uwagę na etap magazynowania surowców i produktów gotowych. Mikrobiologiczne zanieczyszczenie surowca czy produktu gotowego w wyniku błędów przy magazynowaniu może generować straty ekonomiczne dla przedsiębiorstwa. Celem pracy była ocena stanu bioaerozolu bakteriologicznego magazynów w wybranym zakładzie przemysłu spożywczego. Materiał badawczy stanowiła mikroflora bakteryjna wyizolowana z powietrza w strefie magazynowej wybranego zakładu przemysłu spożywczego. Analizie zostały poddane cztery pomieszczenia: magazyny produktów (MPI, MPII), magazyn techniczny (MT) oraz magazyn opakowań jednostkowych (MPJ). Badania wykonano metodą sedymentacyjną Kocha w trz…

Dobór metody oceny czystości mikrobiologicznej powietrza w zakładach przemysłu spożywczego

2016

The Effect of the Perceived Utility of a Management Control System with a Broad Scope on the Use of Food Waste Information and on Financial and Non-F…

2020

The purpose of this study is to analyse the effect of the perceived utility of a management control system with a broad scope on the use of food waste information and on financial and non-financial performances in restaurants. To collect data, a questionnaire was administered in Brazilian restaurants. Data from 206 restaurants were analysed with structural equation modelling, which was performed with SmartPLS software. The results reveal that a management control system of broad scope, which includes non-financial information, is oriented towards the future, and contains an external and long-term focus, assists in the use of information on food waste. In addition, the use of information abo…

Mixtures of lecithin with polymerizable derivatives of cholesterol. A monolayer film balance study.

1986

One of the best investigated binary lipid mixtures is the lecithin-cholesterol system. We show here that it is possible to modify the cholesterol in such a way that it can be polymerized without changing its behaviour in mixtures with lecithin. The polymerizable derivatives exhibit a very similar phase diagram in the mixture with dipalmitoyl-phosphatidylcholine as the cholesterol itself. This is demonstrated by filmbalance measurements.

Modular Small Diameter Vascular Grafts with Bioactive Functionalities.

2015

We report the fabrication of a novel type of artificial small diameter blood vessels, termed biomimetic tissue-engineered blood vessels (bTEBV), with a modular composition. They are composed of a hydrogel scaffold consisting of two negatively charged natural polymers, alginate and a modified chitosan, N,O-carboxymethyl chitosan (N,O-CMC). Into this biologically inert scaffold two biofunctionally active biopolymers are embedded, inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) and silica, as well as gelatin which exposes the cell recognition signal, Arg-Gly-Asp (RGD). These materials can be hardened by exposure to Ca(2+) through formation of Ca(2+) bridges between the polyanions, alginate, N,O-CMC, and polyP…

Valorization of kiwi agricultural waste and industry by-products by recovering bioactive compounds and applications as food additives : a circular ec…

2021

Currently, agricultural production generates large amounts of organic waste, both from the maintenance of farms and crops (agricultural wastes) and from the industrialization of the product (food industry waste). In the case of Actinidia cultivation, agricultural waste groups together leaves, flowers, stems and roots while food industry by-products are represented by discarded fruits, skin and seeds. All these matrices are now underexploited and so, they can be revalued as a natural source of ingredients to be applied in food, cosmetic or pharmaceutical industries. Kiwifruit composition (phenolic compounds, volatile compounds, vitamins, minerals, dietary fiber, etc.) is an outstanding basis…

New Method of DNA Isolation from Two Food Additives Suitable for Authentication in Polymerase Chain Reaction Assays

2005

Locust bean gum and guar gum are galactomannans used as additives (E 410 and E 412, respectively) in the food industry as stabilizing agents. Analytical discrimination between the two additives in gums and foods is now feasible by molecular techniques. However, only complex and time-consuming DNA isolation protocols are available to date. We have developed simple improved protocols to obtain enough DNA suitable for PCR amplification from a few milligrams of commercial E 410 and E 412 additives (containing more than 75% polysaccharides). The suspension of additives in water or 10 mM Tris-HCl, pH 8.5, efficiently recovers DNA suitable for authentication in PCR assays. However, the Tris method…