Exploiting natural regulation

Exploring and exploiting plants extracts as the natural dyes/antimicrobials in textiles processing

The large number of publications in the field of extraction, purification, modification, and process optimization of natural dyes and their application on textiles demonstrates the revival of natural dyes on textile coloration. The use of natural dyes is growing in popularity because of the quality of the natural dyestuff obtained, the environmental compatibility of the dyes and the substantial...

The production of cheese-flavored extruded snack exploiting anti-microbial properties of natural food colors

In this study, the effects of some edible pigments used in the food industry on pathogenic bacteria were investigated. For this purpose, five natural food colors were selected consisted of curcumin, β-carotene, paprika oleoresin, lycopene and turmeric oleoresin. The impacts of each color on bacterial species including Salmonella enterica, Escherichia coli, Bacillus cereus<...

Exploiting the Natural Exploration In Contextual Bandits

The contextual bandit literature has traditionally focused on algorithms that address the explorationexploitation tradeoff. In particular, greedy algorithms that exploit current estimates without any exploration may be sub-optimal in general. However, exploration-free greedy algorithms are desirable in practical settings where exploration may be costly or unethical (e.g., clinical trials). Surp...

Plant viruses: exploiting agricultural and natural ecosystems.

Exploiting Diversity for Natural Language Processing

The recent popularity of applying machine learning methods to computational linguistics problems has given rise to a large supply of trainable natural language processing systems. Most problems of interest have an array of off-the-shelf products or downloadable code implementing solutions of varying quality using varying techniques. The task this thesis is concerned with is developing reasonabl...