Breadfruit marketing is limited by its rapid ripening and deterioration after harvest; therefore, improved postharvest practices may facilitate breadfruit marketing. This study examined the effect of harvest maturity 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) on quality ‘Ma’afala’ ( Artocarpus altilis ). was harvested at 13, 15, 17 weeks flowering, half each treated with 1 μL⋅L −1 1-MCP for 20 hours. During ...

Zanthoxylum bungeanum is widely cultivated, and some automatic picking systems or robots are researched to pick the pepper fruit instead of human hands. The detection algorithm very important an system. HSV color space used in image segmentation. There a fixed threshold based on space, there dynamic Otsu method after images converted into gray images, because popular for pictures. After evaluat...

Market-based task allocation mechanisms are designed to distribute a set of tasks fairly amongst agents. Such have been shown be highly effective in simulation and when applied multi-robot teams. Application such real-world settings can present range practical challenges, as knowing what is the best point complex process allocate information consider determining allocation. The work presented h...

The Hypertension Singing Bowl is an Acoustic Sonification shaped by a year of blood pressure data that has been 3D printed in stainless steel so that it rings. The design of the bowl was a response to a medical diagnosis of hypertension that required regular self-tracking of blood pressure. The culture of selftracking, known as the Quantified Self movement, has the motto “self knowledge through...

Summary A new genus, Lukea Cheek & Gosline (Annonaceae) , is erected for two species to science, quentinii from Kaya Ribe, SE Kenya, and triciae the Udzungwa Mts, Tanzania. characterised by a flattened circular bowl-shaped receptacle-calyx with corolla of three free petals that give buds flowers unique appearance in African Annonaceae. Both are extremely rare shrubs small surviving areas lo...

The present study compared the memory of young and older adults for details pertaining to two public events of close temporal proximity but varying emotional import-the Columbia shuttle explosion and the 2003 Super Bowl. Participants responded to surveys sent within 2 weeks of these events and then again 7 months later, providing information about event-related details (i.e., of the events them...

The amount of pollutant gases in the atmosphere has reached a critical state due to an increase in industrial development and the rapid growth of automobile industries that use fossil fuels. The combustion of fossil fuels produces harmful gases such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen monoxide (NO), soot, particulate matter (PM), etc. The use of Dimethyl Ether (DME) biofuel in diesel engines or other c...

The catalytic effect of graphene on the corannulene bowl-to-bowl inversion is confirmed in this paper using a pair-wise dispersion interaction model. In particular, continuum approach together with Lennard-Jones...