ABSTRACT- Mechanical damage degrades fruit quality in the chain from production to the consumption. Damage is due to static, impact and vibration loads during processes such as harvesting, transportation, sorting and bulk storage. In the present study finite element (FE) models were used to simulate the process of static bruising for apple fruits by contact of the fruit with a hard surface. Thr...

ABSTRACT- The purpose of this study was to elucidate the effects of chemical thinning on seasonal variations of leaf and fruit mineral compositions of ‘Soltani’ apple trees. Treatments, including unthinned control, naphthalene acetic acid (NAA) at 5 and 10 mg L-1, naphthaeneacetamide (NAD) at 25 and 50 mg L-1, benzyladenine (BA) at 50 and 100 mg L-1 and carbaryl at 500 and 1000 mg L-1 were appl...

The impact damage is the most destructive effect on FUM during drum screening. To explore of screening, a free-drop test device was built to simulate FUM. Adopting an L16(45) orthogonal experiment scheme, we investigated mass, dropping height, collision material, and number collisions bruise depth specific surface area bruise, peak force, Ratio amplitude attenuation. Then, analyzed influence th...

Polyphenolics and sugar are the components of many fruit juices. In this work, the performance of ultra-filtration (UF) for separating phenolic compounds from apple juice was studied by performing batch experiments in a membrane module with an area of 0.1 m and fitted with a regenerated cellulose membrane of 1 kDa MWCO. The effects of various operating conditions: transmembrane pressure (3, 4, ...

Huge losses in apple production are caused by pathogens that cannot be seen shortly after harvest. After-harvest thermotherapy treatments can considerably improve control of storage diseases on apples and become an alternative to chemical pesticides. In the years 2010-2012 carried out research in this area. Apples of ‘Topaz’ cultivar were harvested at optimal maturity time for long storage and ...

Antioxidants contribute to endogenous photoprotection and are important for the maintenance of skin health. The study was carried out to compare the skin hydration and transepidermal water loss (TEWL) effects of a stable cosmetic preparation containing flavonoids, following two applications a day over a period of tenth week. The skin trans-epidermal water loss and skin hydration effect was meas...

The experiment was performed to evaluate the effect of GA3, 2,4-D on fruit growth and fruit quality of wax apple. The experiment consisted of Red A, Monulla, Atu, Red B cultivars. GA3 and 2,4-D were applied at the small bud and petal fall stage. Physiological, biochemical characters of fruit were recoded. The result showed application of GA3, 2,4-D greatly response in increasing fruit set for a...

The term bone bruise, in modern medicine, is still a relatively young one, which followed the advent of MRI. Resolution takes between 12 and 24 weeks, however clinical significance is unknown. We present the case of an 18-year-old male who developed bone bruising of his lateral femoral condyle, associated with meniscal injury and anterior cruciate ligament rupture, following a fall from a push ...

OBJECTIVE To report a case of severe abdominal bruising successfully diagnosed using systematic hemostatic investigations. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION A 60-year-old woman developed a large spontaneous nontraumatic, painless bruise over the right lower abdominal wall. Computed tomographic scan of the abdomen showed a subcutaneous hematoma beneath the site of the obvious bruise diagn...

By combining two mature technologies of imaging and spectroscopy, hyperspectral imaging has recently been widely studied and developed, resulting in many successful applications in the food industry for quality and safety evaluation and inspection. These applications include meat quality assessment, automated poultry carcass inspection, quality evaluation of fish, bruise detection of apples, qu...