Thermal processing of foods [[electronic resource] ] : control and automation / / edited by K.P. Sandeep

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910141303503321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Ames, Iowa, : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011
• ISBN: 1-283-92750-0; 0-470-96028-0; 0-470-96026-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (224 p.)
• Collana: IFT Press series
• Classificazione: TEC012000
• Altri autori (Persone): SandeepK. P
• Disciplina: 664.028; 664/.028
• Soggetti: Food - Preservation; Food - Effect of heat on; Automation; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Thermal Processing of FoodsControl and Automation; Contents; Contributors; Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Elements, Modes, Techniques, and Design of Process Control for Thermal Processes; Chapter 3 Process Control of Retorts; Chapter 4 On-Line Control Strategies to Correct Deviant Thermal Processes: Batch Sterilization of Low-Acid Foods; Chapter 5 Computer Software for On-Line Correction of Process Deviations in Batch Retorts; Chapter 6 Optimization, Control, and Validation of Thermal Processes for Shelf-Stable Products; Chapter 7 Instrumentation, Control, and Modeling of Continuous Flow Microwave ProcessingIndex
• Sommario/riassunto: "The food industry has utilized automated control systems for over a quarter of a century. However, the past decade has seen an increase in the use of more sophisticated software-driven on-line control systems, especially in thermal processing unit operations. As these software-driven control systems have become more complicated, the need to validate that these systems operate properly has become more important. In addition to validating new control systems, some food ; companies have started the more difficult task of validating legacy control systems that have been operating for a number of years on retorts or aseptic systems. Thermal Processing: Control and Automation presents an overview of various facets of thermal processing and packaging from industry, university, and government representatives. The book contains information that will be valuable not only to a person interested in understanding the fundamental aspects of thermal processing (e.g, graduate students), but also to persons involved with designing these processes (e.g., process specialist at a food processing company) and those who are involved in process filing with USDA or FDA (different divisions of a food processing company). The book focuses on technical aspects both from a thermal processing standpoint and also from an automation and process control standpoint. Coverage includes established technologies, such as retorting, and emerging technologies, such as continuous flow microwave processing. Thermal Processing: Control and Automation covers both theoretical and application aspects of thermal processing, concluding with speculations on future trends and directions"--Provided by publisher.

Soldiers and ghosts [[electronic resource] ] : a history of battle in classical antiquity / / J.E. Lendon

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777858503321
• Autore: Lendon J. E
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2005
• ISBN: 1-281-72932-9; 9786611729325; 0-300-12899-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (480 p.)
• Disciplina: 355/.00937
• Soggetti: Military history, Ancient; Military art and science - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 393-403) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- CONTENTS -- MAPS -- FIGURES -- PROLOGUE -- INTRODUCTION -- I. Fighting in the Iliad -- II. The Last Hoplite -- III. Two Stubborn Spartans in the Persian War -- IV. The Guile of Delium -- V. The Arts of War in the Early Fourth Century BC -- VI. Alexander the Great at the Battle of Issus -- VII. Hellenistic Warfare (323-31 BC) -- The Greeks, Conclusion -- VIII. Early Roman Warfare -- IX. The Wrath of Pydna -- X. Caesar's Centurions and the Legion of Cohorts -- XI. Scenes from the Jewish War, ad 67-70 -- XII. Shield Wall and Mask -- XIII. Julian in Persia, ad 363 -- The Romans, Conclusion -- Author's Note and Acknowledgments -- CHRONOLOGY -- ABBREVIATIONS -- NOTES -- GLOSSARY -- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES -- INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: What set the successful armies of Sparta, Macedon, and Rome apart from those they defeated? In this major new history of battle from the age of Homer through the decline of the Roman empire, J. E. Lendon surveys a millennium of warfare to discover how militaries change-and don't change-and how an army's greatness depends on its use of the past. Noting this was an age that witnessed few technological advances, J. E. Lendon shows us that the most successful armies were those that made the most effective use of cultural tradition. Ancient combat moved forward by looking backward for inspiration-the Greeks, ; to Homer; the Romans, to the Greeks and to their own heroic past. The best ancient armies recruited soldiers from societies with strong competitive traditions; and the best ancient leaders, from Alexander to Julius Caesar, called upon those traditions to encourage ferocious competition at every rank. Ranging from the Battle of Champions between Sparta and Argos in 550 B.C. through Julian's invasion of Persia in A.D. 363, Soldiers and Ghosts brings to life the most decisive military contests of ancient Greece and Rome. Lendon places these battles, and the methods by which they were fought, in a sweeping narrative of ancient military history. On every battlefield, living soldiers fought alongside the ghosts of tradition-ghosts that would inspire greatness for almost a millennium before ultimately coming to stifle it.