Trends in Chemometrics: Food Authentication, Microbiology, and Effects of Processing

Coupling Chemometrics and NIR Spectroscopy for Food and Drug Authentication

Different examples of successive coupling of Near Infrared Spectroscopy and chemometric for solving problems of authentication and quality control of food and drug samples will be presented. In particular, topics as the traceability of PDO products, the determination of nutritional value of cereals and the quantification of enantiopurity of pharmaceutical API will be discussed.

Chemometrics in Food and Beverage

Scientists in the food and beverage industry are faced with many different quality control tasks, such as making sure that flavors meet certain standards, identifying changes in process parameters that may lead to a change in quality, detecting adulteration in any ingredient and identifying the geographical origin of raw materials. Food scientists who work for regulatory agencies, such as the F...

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

the effects of keyword and context methods on pronunciation and receptive/ productive vocabulary of low-intermediate iranian efl learners: short-term and long-term memory in focus

از گذشته تا کنون، تحقیقات بسیاری صورت گرفته است که همگی به گونه ای بر مثمر ثمر بودن استفاده از استراتژی های یادگیری لغت در یک زبان بیگانه اذعان داشته اند. این تحقیق به بررسی تاثیر دو روش مختلف آموزش واژگان انگلیسی (کلیدی و بافتی) بر تلفظ و دانش لغوی فراگیران ایرانی زیر متوسط زبان انگلیسی و بر ماندگاری آن در حافظه می پردازد. به این منظور، تعداد شصت نفر از زبان آموزان ایرانی هشت تا چهارده ساله با...

Food Microbiology