It is of utmost importance for the instant rice processing sector to reassess its methodologies to enhance the overall quality of instantized rice products. This study aimed to analyze how the combination of microwave (MW) drying and convective …
Two-level screening designs are widely applied in manufacturing industry to identify influential factors of a system. These designs have each factor at two levels and are traditionally constructed using standard algorithms, which rely on a …
The first dedicated algorithm to enumerate even-odd designs of strength 3 is presented. Such designs cannot be constructed by folding over smaller designs, but they may permit simultaneous estimation of many more two-factor interactions than designs …
Conference designs are $n \times k$ matrices, $k < n$, with orthogonal columns, one zero in each column, at most one zero in each row, and $−1$ and $+1$ entries elsewhere. Conference designs with $k = n$ are called conference matrices. Definitive …
Temperate bacterial viruses are commonly thought to favor vertical (lysogenic) transmission over horizontal (lytic) transmission when the virion-to-host-cell ratio is high and available host cells become scarce. In P22-infected Salmonella Typhimurium …
Introduction: The metabolic activity of the gut microbiota plays a pivotal role in the gut-brain axis through the effects of bacterial metabolites on brain function and development. In this study we investigated the association of gut microbiota …
Due to recent advances in the development of laboratory equipment, large screening experiments can now be conducted to study the joint impact of up to a few dozen factors. While much is known about orthogonal designs involving 64 and 128 runs, there …
After completing the experimental runs of a screening design, the responses under study are analyzed by statistical methods to detect the active effects. To increase the chances of correctly identifying these effects, a good analysis method should …
Mixture experiments usually involve various constraints on the proportions of the ingredients of the mixture under study. In this paper, inspired by the fact that the available stock of certain ingredients is often limited, we focus on a new type of …
Definitive screening designs permit the study of many quantitative factors in a few runs more than twice the number of factors. In practical applications, researchers often require a design for m quantitative factors, construct a definitive screening …