The effects of chicken breast meat lightness value (L*) on microstructure, protein extraction, and marinating and tumbling was investigated. Pale soft, and exudative (PSE) meat (L* = 57.7, pH 5.72) showed significantly lower salt soluble protein extraction with less heavy myosin chains compared with dark, firm, and dry (DFD) meat (L* = 44.8, pH 6.27). The PSE meat showed larger intercellular sp...

The variable block size(VBS) motion estimation technique allows for larger blocks to be used when smaller blocks yield little gain, saving bit rates especially for areas containing more complex motion. However, the employment of the VBS motion estimation technique introduces a new optimization issue for the motion compensated transform coding, because an increase in bit rate allocation is neces...

Assembly/disassembly planning of mechanical products is one of the important manufacturing activities that must be supported by computers. Furthermore, recently, the design for disassemblability/recyclability becomes more important from the viewpoint of Life Cycle Assessment or Emission-Minimum. Therefore, we develop a system which can generate disassembly sequences and which can be applied to ...

Precise gene expression is a fundamental aspect of organismal function and depends on the combinatorial interplay of transcription factors (TFs) with cis-regulatory DNA elements. While much is known about TF function in general, our understanding of their cell type-specific activities is still poor. To address how widely expressed transcriptional regulators modulate downstream gene activity wit...

The encouraging Design for Disassembly appears in the literature more and often. Such a design to offer clear environmental advantages. However, there are still not enough research results support existence of these benefits. authors using Life Cycle Assessment method, which assesses energy consumption greenhouse gas emissions during demolition operation steel structure. Steel is completely rec...

Demodulation of multiple users in a cellular TDMA system with large power imbalance among the received signals and limited side information is considered. Our approach is to combine an adaptive multiuser decision-feedback demodulator (DFD) with multiple antennas. The DFD contains (matrix) nite-impulse response feedfor-ward and and feedback lters to mitigate both intersymbol and multiple-access ...

The increased scrutiny of a product’s effects on the environment has led industry to embrace Environment Conscious Design and Manufacture (ECDM) practices. Disassembly of a product at the end of its useful life is an integral part of the ECDM paradigm. Disassembly facilitates the end-of-product life options such as recycling, remanufacture, reuse and safe disposal. As industries take active ste...

Disassembly sequence planning at the early conceptual stage of design leads to enormous benefits including simplification of products, lower assembly and disassembly costs, and design modifications which result in increased potential profitability of end-of-life salvaging operations. However, in the early design stage, determining the best disassembly sequence is challenging. First, the require...

The discrete Fréchet distance (DFD) captures perceptual and geographical similarity between discrete trajectories. It has been successfully adopted in a multitude of applications, such as signature and handwriting recognition, computer graphics, as well as geographic applications. Spatial applications, e.g., sports analysis, traffic analysis, etc. require discovering the pair of most similar su...

Prior developmental genetic analyses have shown that labial (lab) and Deformed (Dfd) are homeotic genes that function in the development of the embryonic (larval) and adult head. Using antibody probes to reveal the spatial distribution of the lab and Dfd proteins in embryonic and imaginal tissues, we have assessed the respective roles of these genes through an analysis of the correspondence of ...