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In sugar manufacture crystallization is the most important unit operation that directly affects in sugar quality. The combined effects of dextran and starch were studied in crystallization experiments. The experiments were performed following a 22 full factorial design, with 3 central points and 4 more axial points, a total of 11 experiments per type of crystallization. Therefore, 22 experiments were carried out (11 cooling crystallizations and 11 evaporating crystallizations) with starch and dextran contents ranging from 0 to 2000 mg/kg. The obtained crystallized sugar was analyzed with respect to its starch and dextran contents and its turbidity and its alcoholic floc formation. Controlled cooling crystallization gave lower contamination compared to evaporating crystallization.

Important resources from family support systems, employment, and educational attainment inhibit the risk of death. Independently, these factors are particularly salient for suicide, but how they combine to affect mortality is less clear. Analyses of National Health Interview Survey data from 1986 to 2004 (N =935,802), prospectively linked to mortality through 2006 (including 1,238 suicides), reveals a process of compensation in the way work status and family combine to affect adult suicide: Individuals who are not working experience more suicide defense from more protective family support systems than do working adults. But a process of reinforcement occurs in the combination of education and family: More education associates with more protection from the family than does less education. The findings demonstrate how families and resources combine to affect mortality in unique ways.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. How to Create Competitive Strategy -- Part I: The Three Natures of Effective Strategy -- Chapter 2. Holistic Strategy to Subsume Competitors -- Chapter 3. Agile Strategy to Adapt Ends, Ways, and Means -- Chapter 4. Asymmetric Strategy to Exploit Advantage -- Part II: How to Design Combined Effect Strategy and Influence -- Chapter 5. Combined Effect Strategy: Holistic, Agile, and Asymmetric -- Chapter 6. Concepts of Influence beyond Punishment and Denial -- Part III: Combined Effect Warfare from China, Russia, and Iran -- Chapter 7. China's Centralized Control: Induced Compellence and Coercion -- Chapter 8. Russia's Control by Chaos: Deterrent Compellence and Coercion -- Chapter 9. Iran's Theocratic Control: Persuasive Compellence and Coercive Deterrence -- Part IV: Closing the Strategy Gap in an Age of AI -- Chapter 10. Combined Effects in U.S. National Security and Defense Strategies: Reforming Objectives -- Chapter 11. Combined Effect Strategy and Influence from the Ancients to AI -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Security and strategy -- Chinese security culture -- China's unsettled sovereignty -- Korean security culture -- Korea's nuclear polarization -- Japanese security culture -- Japan's delayed reactions -- Combined effects strategy -- Appendix 1: Effects, targets & tools -- Appendix 2: Lines of effect logic and complex interactions -- Appendix 3: Comparative summary of security crises

Nine well-trained subjects were tested on a complex-performance device involving tracking, monitoring, and mental arithmetic during exposure to altitude (14,000 ft.) and heat (60° C) both singly and in combination. Several physiological measures were taken. Exposure durations were 30 min. for each condition with both pre- and posttesting. The only clear-cut effects of the conditions were significant differences across the environmental conditions on the tracking task. Altitude was clearly a more powerful variable than temperature in this study. This was evidenced by the fact that performance under the temperature-plus-altitude and the altitude-only conditions were approximately the same; performance under the temperature-only condition was significantly better than performance for either of the other two conditions. There was some evidence that the two environments in combination produced a persistent effect on performance that did not dissipate with return to normal conditions. Measured physiological functions of the subjects were within the tolerable range.

Metabolic changes of Daphnia magna pools due different abiotic factors linked to global climate change (salinity, temperature and hypoxia) were investigated using untargeted GC–MS and advanced chemometric strategies using a three factors two-level full factorial experimental design (DoE). Effects of these three factors and identity of the metabolites whose concentrations changed because of them were investigated. The simultaneous analysis of GC–MS data sets using Multivariate Curve Resolution-Alternating Least Squares (MCR-ALS) allowed the resolution of the elution and mass spectra profiles of a large number of D. magna metabolites. Changes in peak areas of these metabolites were then analyzed by Principal Component Analysis (PCA), by ANOVA-Simultaneous Component Analysis (ASCA) and by Orthogonal Partial Least Squares-Discriminant Analysis (OPLS-DA), and the combined effects of the three investigated stressors were assessed. Results confirmed the strong influence of increasing environmental salinity levels on the D. magna metabolome. This impact was specially highlighted by changes on the cellular content of carbohydrates, fatty acids, organic acids and amino acid molecules. In contrast, these effects were less significant for the other two factors (temperature and hypoxia) at the moderate stressing experimental conditions investigated in this work when they were not combined with salinity. ; The research leading to these results received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007-2013)/ERC Grant Agreement no. 320737. ; Peer reviewed