Notoginseng is a classical traditional Chinese medical herb, which is of high economic and medical value. Notoginseng powder (NP) could be easily adulterated with Sophora flavescens powder (SFP) or corn flour (CF), because of their similar tastes and appearances and much lower cost for these adulterants. The objective of this study is to quantify the NP content in adulterated NP by using a rapi...

Distances matrices are traditionally analyzed with statistical methods that represent distances as maps such as Metric Multidimensional Scaling (MDS), Generalized Procrustes Analysis (GPA), Individual Differences Scaling (INDSCAL), and DISTATIS. MDS analyzes only one distance matrix at a time while GPA, INDSCAL and DISTATIS extract similarities between several distance matrices. However, none o...

The application of crop residue has become increasingly important for providing a barrier against water and wind erosion and improving soil organic matter content, infiltration, evaporation, temperature, and soil structure. The objectives of this work were to: (i) estimate maize residue cover (MRC) from Landsat-8 OLI images using seven vegetation indices (VIs) and eight textural features; and (...

This study investigated the feasibility of using hyperspectral imaging technique for nondestructive measurement of color components (ΔL*, Δa* and Δb*) and classify tea leaves during different drying periods. Hyperspectral images of tea leaves at five drying periods were acquired in the spectral region of 380-1030 nm. The three color features were measured by the colorimeter. Different preproces...

The properties of McReynolds’ constants were studied by a detailed statistical/chemometric analysis. The electronic structure, geometries and hydrophobicity of the McReynolds’ test compounds (benzene, 1-butanol, 2-pentanone, 1-nitropropane, pyridine, 2-methyl-2-pentanol, 1iodobutane, 2-octyne, 1,4-dioxane and cis-hidrindane) were calculated at the level of PM3 semiempirical quantum chemical met...

Remote sensing-based mapping of crop nitrogen (N) status is beneficial for precision N management over large geographic regions. Both leaf/canopy level content and accumulation are valuable nutrient diagnosis. However, previous studies mainly focused on leaf (LNC) estimation. The effects growth stages the modeling accuracy have not been widely discussed. This study aimed to estimate different p...

Early detection of water stress is critical for precision farming for improving crop productivity and fruit quality. To investigate varying rootstock and irrigation interactions in an open agricultural ecosystem, different irrigation treatments were implemented in a vineyard experimental site either: (i) nonirrigated (NIR); (ii) with full replacement of evapotranspiration (FIR); or (iii) interm...

the acidity constants (pka) of thirty four (34) ;-substituted carboxylic acids in aqueous solution havebeen calculated using conductor-like polarizable continuum (c-pcm) solvation model. the gasphaseenergies at the density functional theory (dft-mpw1pw91) and solvation energies athartree fock (hf) are combined to estimate the pka values which are very close to the experimentalvalues where, and ...