A High-Speed Fish Evisceration System (FES) for Bycatch and Underutilized Fish Stocks

Development of a high-speed and high-yield water-powered fish evisceration system (FES) to efficiently preprocess small fish and bycatch for producing minced fish meat is described. The concept of the system is propelling fish in a stream of water through an arrangement of cutting blades and brushes. Eviscerated fish are separated from the viscera and water stream in a dual screen rotary sieve. The FES processed head off fish, weighing 170–500 g, at the rate of 300 fish/min when used with an automatic heading machine. Yields of mince produced from walleye pollock, Theragra chalcogramma; and Pacific whiting, Merluccius productus; processed by the FES ranged between 43% and 58%. The maximum yield of minced muscle from fish weighing over 250 g was 52%, and the yield of 250 g was 58%. Test results indicated that surimi made from minced meat recovered from fish processed with the FES was comparable in quality to commercial grade surimi from conventional systems. Redesigned for commercial operation in the Faeroe Islands (Denmark), the system effectively processed North Atlantic blue whiting, Micromesistius poutassou, with an average weight of 110 g at a constant rate of 500–600 fish/min, producing deboned mince feeding a surimi processing line at a rate of 2.0 t/h. Yields of mince ranged from 55% to 63% from round fish. Surimi made from the blue whiting mince meat produced by the FES was comparable to surimi commercially produced from blue whiting by Norway and France and sold into European markets

A Proposal for Wired City Television

This Article proposes that a national system of wired city television (WCTV), inexpensively interconnected, is the best avenue to more and more varied programs. Television would then have capacity and incentive to educate, inform, and entertain specialized interests as well as general interests and mass tastes. To put the matter as simply as possible, a system of wired city TV makes it possible to increase very greatly the number of operating channels available to almost all of the homes in the nation. The carriage of a television signal to the home from a local studio camera or tape machine then becomes far less expensive than now. Intercity connections would be accomplished as under present arrangements-microwave and cable-or could take advantage of the new satellite technology discussed by Leland Johnson. We try to show below that the great increase in availability of low-cost television channels would be a sufficient condition to insure significant increases in numbers of programs and diversity, and that other alternatives cannot accomplish this as well

1978: Abilene Christian College Bible Lectures - Full Text

SPIRITUALITY Being the Abilene Christian University Annual Bible Lectures 1978 Published by Abilene Christian University Book Store ACU Station Abilene, Texas 7960

Muon capture by a proton in heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory

The matrix element for muon capture by a proton is calculated to O(p^3) within heavy baryon chiral perturbation theory using the new O(p^3) Lagrangian of Ecker and Mojzis. External nucleon fields are renormalized using the appropriate definition of the wave function renormalization factor Z_N. Our expression for Z_N differs somewhat from that found in existing literature, but is the one which is consistent with the Lagrangian we use and the one which ensures, within our approach, the nonrenormalization of the vector coupling as required by the conserved vector current. Expressions for the standard muon capture form factors are derived and compared to experimental data and we determine three of the coefficients of the Ecker - Mojzis Lagrangian, namely, b_7, b_{19}, and b_{23}.Comment: 14 pages, LaTeX, using revte