Apple or Pear: Size and Shape Matter

The colour degradation of pear and apple juice concentrates AP008

Fungi associated with apple and pear sooty blotch and flyspeck diseases in Guilan province, Iran

Sooty blotch and flyspeck occur on fruit surfaces and result in economic losses due to less attractive appearance. Sooty blotch fungi form dark mycelial mats whereas flyspeck fungal agents are well characterized with black, sclerotium-like bodies on fruit surface. Whilst more than 60 species have been reported in association with these two fungal diseases, thus far they have not been studied in...

Dexterous Workspace Shape and Size Optimization of Tricept Parallel Manipulator

This work intends to deal with the optimal kinematic synthesis problem of Tricept parallel manipulator. Observing that cuboid workspaces are desirable for most machines, we use the concept of effective inscribed cuboid workspace, which reflects requirements on the workspace shape, volume and quality, simultaneously. The effectiveness of a workspace is characterized by the dexterity of the manip...

Land-Water Distribution and the Pear-Shape of the Earth

The orbital analysis of artificial Earth satellites have revealed the existence of a strong third harmonic in the gravitational potential of the Earth which gives its ‘pear-shape’ in the averaged meridional section. Various attempts to explain this pear-shape based on physical principles have proved to be inconclusive. In this study, a new approach based upon statistical correlation between var...

Size and shape after-effects: Same or different mechanism?

The shape-frequency and shape-amplitude after-effects, or SFAE and SAAE, are shifts in the perceived shape-frequency and perceived shape-amplitude of a sinusoidal test contour following adaptation to a similar-shaped contour. These shape-effects are the shape analogs of the well-known size after-effect discovered by Blakemore and Sutton (1969), so it is possible that they are mediated by a size...