Conformational Changes And Kinetic Study Of Actomyosin From Silver Carp Surim…

The cryoprotective effects of modified starch–sucrose mixtures on silver carp surimi were compared with commercial cryoprotectant using the changes in gel strength and actomyosin conformation during frozen storage. Acetic acid esterification starch (AAES)-sucrose maintained the maximum gel strength and Ca2+–ATPase activity throughout the frozen storage (P < 0.05). Hydroxypropylated starch (…

The Effects Of Cephalaria Syriaca Flour On The Quality Of Sunn Pest (Eurygast…

The effects of Cephalaria syriaca flour on the quality of sunn pest-damaged wheat were investigated. Sunn pest-damaged wheat was blended into sound wheat at different levels (5, 10 and 15%). C. syriaca flour was then added at 0.5, 1.0 and 1.5% levels. The rheological properties of sunn pest-damaged wheat flour with added C.syriaca flour were considerably improved, in particular with regard to f…

Ergonomic assessment of drivers in MF285 and MF399 tractors during clutching …

Tractor as one of the most widely used agricultural machinery should be considered from different aspects. The frequent application of clutch and brake pedals and also the steering wheel within farms, along with the unfavorable working conditions, cause negative effects on the occupational health of the tractor drivers. Thus, in this research, the imposed forces on three engaged muscles includi…

Developing a Why–How Question Answering system on community web boards with…

The research aims to develop an automatic Question Answering system, in particular Why and How questions, on community web-boards to support ordinary people in preliminary diagnosis and problem solving, such as plant disease problems. The research includes two main problems: Why and How question identification and Why and How answer determination, where Why and How questions are based on expla…

Agricultural information dissemination using ICTs:A review and analysis of in…

Over the last three decades, China’s agriculture sector has been transformed from the traditional to modern practice through the effective deployment of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs). Information processing and dissemination have played a critical role in this transformation process. Many studies in relation to agriculture information services have been conducted in China,…

Application of near infrared spectroscopy in cotton fiber micronaire measurement

The term ‘‘micronaire” describes an important cotton fiber property by characterizing both the fiber maturity and fineness. In practice, micronaire is regularly measured in laboratories with the well established high volume instrumentation (HVITM) protocol. In most scenarios,cotton breeders/geneticists sent cotton breeding line field trial samples to laboratories equipped to use the HVITM…

Bulk density of mineral and organic soils in the Canada’s arctic and sub-ar…

Bulk density is an indicator of soil compaction subject to anthropogenic impact, essential to the interpretation of any nutrient budgets, especially to perform carbon inventories. It is so expensive to measure bulk density in arctic/sub-arctic and there are relatively very few field measurements are available. Therefore, to establish a bulk density and SOC empirical relationship in Canada’s a…

GIS based generation of dynamic hydrological and land patch simulation models…

This paper introduces a GIS based methodology to generate dynamic process model for the simulation based analysis of a sensitive rural watershed. The Direct Computer Mapping (DCM) based solution starts from GIS layers and, via the graph interpretation and graphical edition of the process network, the expert interface is able to integrate the field experts’knowledge in the computer aided gener…

Impedance analysis of Labisia pumila plant water status

Labisia pumila (Kacip fatimah) is a popular medicinal plant in Malaysia. The constituents of this plant have been reported to possess anticancer, antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties. The growth and production of L. pumila is greatly influenced by the plant water status. Current techniques to measure plant water status are generally based on the plant soil moisture, which apparently did…

Exposing vocabularies for soil as Linked Open Data

Standards to describe soil properties are well established, with many ISO specifications and a few international thesauri available for specific applications. Besides, in recent years, the European directive on ‘‘Infrastructure for Spatial Information in the European Community (INSPIRE)” has brought together most of the existing standards into a well defined model.However, the adoption of…

Detection of flock movement and behaviour of broiler chickens at different fe…

The behaviour of broiler chickens has been extensively studied as a function of stocking density and environmental conditions, but limited information was reported in the scientific literature about the effect of feeder type on birds’ feeding process. The main objective of this study was to assess the effects of three different feeder types in relation to the birds’behaviour in its surround…

Life cycle assessment of open field and greenhouse cultivation of lettuce and…

In the present paper, a life cycle assessment (LCA) study regarding barley and lettuce production in Spain (Barrax and Santomera regions) and Italy (Albenga region) in both open field (OF) and standard greenhouse (GH) cultivations was performed in order to evaluate energy consumption and environmental impacts. The study examines also the impact of the use of compost produced from agricultural …

Design, development and field assessment of a controlled seed metering unit t…

A newcontrolled seed metering unit was designed and mounted on a common grain drill for direct seeding of wheat (DSW). It comprised the following main parts: (a) a variable-rate controlled direct current motor (DCM) as seed metering shaft driver, (b) two digital encoders for sensing the rotational speed of supplemental ground wheel (SGW) and seed metering shaft and (c) a control box to handle a…

Greenness identification based on HSV decision tree

Greenness identification from crop images captured outdoors is the important step for crop growth monitoring. The commonly used methods for greenness identification are based on visible spectral-index, such as the excess green index, the excess green minus excess red index, the vegetative index, the color index of vegetation extraction, the combined index. All these visible spectral-index based…

Capacitive sensor probe to assess frying oil degradation

The repeated usage of frying oil has been proven hazardous due to the degradation process by chemical reactions that lead to changes in the quality of the oil. Currently, the degree of frying oil degradation is indicated by the percentage of its total polar compounds (TPC). In this study, a capacitive sensor was designed to assess frying oil degradation at several heating time intervals by meas…

Defining the effect of sweep tillage tool cutting edge geometry on tillage fo…

The energy required for tillage processes accounts for a significant proportion of total energy used in crop production. In many tillage processes decreasing the draft and upward vertical forces is often desired for reduced fuel use and improved penetration, respectively. Recent studies have proved that the discrete element modelling (DEM) can effectively be used to model the soil–tool intera…

Assessment of groundwater contamination risk in an agricultural area in north…

In the present study a specific approach is followed, considering the Pesticide DRASTIC and Susceptibility index (SI) methods and a GIS framework, to assess groundwater vulnerability in the agricultural area of Albenga, in north Italy. The results indicate ‘‘high’’ to ‘‘very high’’ vulnerability to groundwater contamination along the coastline and the middle part of the Albenga …

Thematic harvesting of agricultural resources from generic repositories

Metadata aggregators and service providers harvest entire collections or they restrict harvesting by date or sets. However most often user approach to collections is not by dates or set names but by domain based keywords. Harvesting by domains is an issue when service providers attempt to collect data from multiple sources. The main problem is that harvesters,at present, do not have the facilit…

Drying kinetics of whole and sliced turmeric rhizomes (Curcuma longa L.) in a…

Drying of turmeric was carried out in a solar conduction dryer (SCD). Drying air temperature was achieved around 39–51 C for an ambient temperature in the range of 25–28 C. Moisture content from 78.65% (wb), was reduced to 6.36% (wb) and 5.50% (wb) for solid and sliced samples respectively in 12 h effective drying time. Drying curve of sliced samples showed more uniform falling in compar…

Drying kinetics of technical specified rubber

This paper reports the study of crumb rubber drying in different experimental designs. It is important to understand the characteristics of crumb rubber drying in order to formulate a better drying strategy that could give higher energy efficiency. Four experiments were carried out with constant heat at maximum 100 C and a stainless steel container was used to hold the sample of crumb rubber u…

Management and control applications in Agriculture domain via a Future Intern…

The Agriculture business domain, as a vital part of the overall supply chain, is expected to highly evolve in the upcoming years via the developments, which are taking place on the side of the Future Internet. This paper presents a novel Business-to-Business collaboration platform from the agri-food sector perspective, which aims to facilitate the collaboration of numerous stakeholders belongin…

Cost analysis model for catalytic conversion of syngas in to light hydrocarbo…

Bio-gasification is a new technology and considered as a more efficient way to utilize bioenergy. The economic feasibility becomes one of the greatest issues when we apply this new technology. Evaluation of economic feasibility of a bio-gasification facility needs better understanding of its production unit cost under different capacities and different working shift modes. The objective of this…

Measuring technical efficiency of potato production in Iran using robust data…

A non-parametric method of data envelopment analysis (DEA) was applied to analyze the technical and scale efficiency of potato production in 23 Iranian provinces. In many real applications, inputs and outputs may be imprecise. In the present study, a robust DEA (RDEA) optimization framework was used to concentrate on DEA with uncertain data. The method was based on six inputs (human labor rent…

Handbook of seismic risk analysis and management of civil infrastructure systems

What makes earthquake risks so catastrophic and dreadful? Possible reasons are attributed to the sudden, unpredictable, involuntary, and large-scale nature of the risks. As a consequence of a devastating earthquake, a tremendous surge of seismic damage and loss may overwhelm the risk-bearing capacities of households, companies, municipalities, and insurers, and may eventually cause serious…

A numerical and an analytical method for optimum planting date determination

Apart from number and size of machines in a farm, operations scheduling can also affect timeliness costs. In this study a new equation was presented for determination of timeliness costs and it was proven that the new equation is a generalization of the well-known ASABE standard equation. Based on the new equation, a parameter namely,timeliness index was defined that indicates the distribution …

Preliminary nitrite, nitrate and colour analysis of Malaysian edible bird’s…

The high nitrite content in edible bird’s nests is a major concern to the local swiftlet industry. It lowers the price of the edible bird’s nests and it brings severe health hazards to consumers and farmers. This research investigated the nitrite and nitrate contents of eight types of local edible bird’s nests by using ion chromatography system and evaluating its colour using the CIE syst…

First testing of an AUV mission planning and guidance system for water qualit…

Recently, underwater vehicles have become low cost, reliable and affordable platforms for performing various underwater tasks. While many aquaculture systems are closed with no harmful output, open net cage fish farms and land-based fish farms can discharge significant amounts of wastewater containing nutrients, chemicals, and pharmaceuticals that impact on the surrounding environment. Althoug…

A 5-bit time to digital converter using time to voltage conversion and integr…

Time to digital converter (TDC) is a key block for time-gated single photon avalanche diode (SPAD) arrays for Raman spectroscopy that applicable in the agricultural products and food analysis. In this paper a new dual slope time to digital converter that employs the time to voltage conversion and integrating techniques for digitizing the time interval input signals is presented. The reference c…

Operational indicators for measuring organizational e-readiness based on fuzz…

Information and communications technology has exponentially grown in recent years and has played a significant role in organizational development. The main purpose of this study was to collect the data needed for the introduction of a new tool for assessing e-readiness in the Agricultural Organization of Guilan Province, Iran. The study population includes agricultural organization experts and…

An intelligent system for egg quality classification based on visible-infrare…

The potential of the visible infrared (Vis–IR) (400–1100 nm) transmittance method to assess the internal quality (freshness) of intact chicken egg during storage at a temperature of 30 ± 7 C and 25 ± 4% relative humidity was investigated. Two hundred chicken egg samples were used for measuring freshness and spectra collection during egg storage (up to 25 days). Two correlation models, fi…

Acquisition of hyponymy relations for agricultural terms from a Japanese stat…

This paper, which aims to increment the vocabulary of an existing thesaurus using hyponymy relations, focuses on an agricultural thesaurus called AGROVOC. Our main goal is to acquire AGROVOC-qualified candidates from the hyponymy relations of legal texts and tables. We propose a pattern-based approach to hyponymy relation acquisition. Our experimental result showed that 222 and 868 candidates a…

Remote monitoring cost minimization for an unreliable sensor network with gua…

In this paper we consider a link-unreliable remote monitoring scenario where the monitoring center is geographically located far away from the region of the deployed sensor network,and sensing data by the sensors in the network will be transferred to the remote monitoring center through a third party telecommunication service. A cost associated with this service will be incurred, which will be…

Real-time recognition of sows in video:A supervised approach

This paper proposes a supervised classification approach for the real-time pattern recognition of sows in an animal supervision system (asup). Our approach offers the possibility of the foreground subtraction in an asup’s image processing module where there is lack ofstatistical information regarding the . A set of 7 farrowing sessions of sows, during day and night, have been captured (appr…

Semantic representation of proved and disproved statements extracted from sci…

The article presents an ontology called ‘‘Science’’ designed for representing proved and disproved statements extracted from scientific papers from the database of the ProOptiBeef project. We argue that the proved and disproved statements are the best characterization of the content of the papers they are extracted from. We show that ontological representation of proved and disproved st…

Energy loss optimization of run-off-road wheels applying imperialist competit…

The novel imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA) has presented outstanding fitness on various optimization problems. Application of meta-heuristics has been a dynamic studying interest of the reliability optimization to determine idleness and reliability constituents. The application of a meta-heuristic evolutionary optimization method, imperialist competitive algorithm (ICA), for minimization…

Wavelet neural network applied for prognostication of contact pressure betwee…

This paper describes the measurement of contact pressure in the context of wheel–terrain interaction as affected by wheel load and tire inflation pressure when fusion of the wavelet transform with the back-propagation (BP) neural network is applied to construct the wavelet neural network contact pressure prediction model. To this aim, a controlled soil bin testing facility equipped with singl…

Time-series prediction of shellfish farm closure:A comparison of alternatives

Shellfish farms are closed for harvest when microbial pollutants are present. Such pollutants are typically present in rainfall runoff from various land uses in catchments. Experts currently use a number of observable parameters (river flow, rainfall, salinity) as proxies to determine when to close farms. We have proposed using the short term historical rainfall data as a time-series prediction…

Uncertainty assessment of a polygon database of soil organic carbon for green…

Canada’s Arctic and sub-arctic consist 46% of Canada’s landmass and contain 45% of the total soil organic carbon (SOC). Pronounced climate warming and increasing human disturbances could induce the release of this SOC to the atmosphere as greenhouse gases. Canada is committed to estimating and reporting the greenhouse gases emissions and removals induced by land use change in the Arctic and…

Development of an intelligent system based on ANFIS for predicting wheat grai…

Energy is regarded as one of the most important elements in agricultural sector. During the last decades energy consumption in agriculture has increased, so finding the relationship between energy consumption and crop yields in agricultural production can help to achieve sustainable agriculture. In this study several adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) models were evaluated to predict…

Fast processing of foreign fiber images by image blocking

In the textile industry, it is always the case that cotton products are constitutive of many types of foreign fibers which affect the overall quality of cotton products. As the foundation of the foreign fiber automated inspection, image process exerts a critical impact on the process of foreign fiber identification. This paper presents a new approach for the fast processing of foreign fiber ima…

Calcium intake, calcium homeostasis and health

Calcium, as the most abundant mineral in human body, is involved in many physiological and pathological processes. Here, we reviewed thekey mechanisms of calcium homeostasis, including calcium sensing receptor regulation, intestinal calcium absorption, renal calcium reabsorptionand bone calcium resorption. We further discussed the roles of dietary calcium and vitamin D in diseases associated wi…

Nutritional composition, in vitro antioxidant and anti-diabetic potentials of…

The present study evaluated the nutritional and total phenolic contents of leaves and fruit of Breynia retusa to study the inhibitory potentialsagainst free radicals, -amylase and -glucosidase enzymes. Proximate composition and anti-nutrient content were investigated in the powderedsamples of leaf and fruit. Total phenolic, flavonoid, vitamin C and E contents were measured by spectrophotometr…

Bioactive peptides on endothelial function

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Food Science and Human Wellness 5 (2016) 1–7

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Food Science and Human Wellness

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Effects of antimicrobial and antioxidant activities of spice extracts on rawc…

The antimicrobial and antioxidant effects of two spice extracts and their combination on raw chicken meat during storage for 15 days at 4◦Cwere studied. Raw chicken meat was treated with BHT (positive control), rosemary (RO), cloves (CL), and their combination, and the results werecompared to those obtained for raw chicken meat without any additive (negative control). The antioxidant and anti…

Characterization of volatiles Tribolium castaneum (H.) in flour using solidph…

The objective of this study was to identify volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from flour, Tribolium castaneum (Herbst) and flour infested byT. castaneum separately, to confirm the difference of healthy flour and flour infested by T. castaneum and to explore the new technique to diagnosestored flour’s quality by its VOCs change. Headspace-solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) coupled with gas …

Phenolics extract of Tetrapleura tetraptera fruit inhibits xanthine oxidasean…

The phenolics composition and inhibitory activity of Tetrapleura tetraptera fruit extract on xanthine oxidase (XO) and Fe2+-induced lipidperoxidation in the kidney, liver and lungs tissues of rats were evaluated in vitro. Phenolics (flavonoids and phenolic acids) were quantifiedusing reverse-phase high performance liquid chromatrography coupled with diode array detection (HPLC-DAD). The XO and …

Chemistry and health beneficial effects of oolong tea and theasinensins

Among six major types of tea (white, green, oolong, yellow, black, and dark teas) from Camellia sinensis, oolong tea, a semi-fermented tea,with its own unique aroma and taste, has become a popular consumption as indicated by the increasing production. Representing the characteristicflavonoids of oolong tea, theasinensins are dimeric flavan-3-ols. Many recent studies have indicated that oolong t…

Functional properties, phenolic constituents and antioxidant potentialof indu…

Apple pomace is a waste biomass generated after apple fruit processing. In present investigation, efforts were made to comprehend influenceof differently dried pomace on cell wall properties and phenolic profile. Different drying techniques were employed to remove moisture contentfrom fresh apple pomace. Total dietary fiber yield (74%) and array of functional properties such as density, water a…

Health-promoting microbes in traditional Vietnamesefermented foods: A review

Vietnam has a long history of numerous traditional fermented products that contain a range of microorganisms with favorable technological,preservative, and organoleptic properties for food processing as well as other functional properties. This review emphasizes the most commontraditional Vietnamese fermented foods and their beneficial indigenous bacteria having health-promoting effects. Key…

Antioxidants, anti-proliferative, anti-inflammatory, anti-diabetic andanti-mi…

The present study, antioxidant, enzyme inhibitory, anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial activity of isolated compounds such as Decussatin(1), Gentiacaulein (2), Swertianin (3), 1,8-dihydroxy-2,6-dimethoxy xanthone (methylswertianin) (4) 8-hydroxy-1,2,4,6-tetramethoxyxanthone(5) and 1,2-dihydroxy-6-methoxyxanthone-8-O--d-xylopyranosyl (6) were investigated using an in vitro model. Results of ant…