An earlier report (5) has described the effect of thiocyanate sprays on sugars and certain other constituents in apples. The present paper is a continuation of the general problem with attention directed to the pectic constituents. In previous work it was noted occasionally that apples spray.ed with thiocyanates were found to keep better in cold storage at 30 to 50 C. than control samples not s...

We define a unit system for end-user spreadsheets that is based on the concrete notion of units instead of the abstract concept of types. Units are derived from header information given by spreadsheets. The unit system contains concepts, such as dependent units, multiple units, and unit generalization, that allow the classification of spreadsheet contents on a more fine-grained level than types...

The most comprehensive and often-cited statistic about the U.S. economy is gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States. Estimates of GDP are the featured statistics in the National Income and Product Accounts, the construction of which involves the collection and aggregation of an immense amount of data. In the construction of real GDP, complica...

More Apples Less Chips? The Effect of School Fruit Schemes on the Consumption of Junk Food We use scanner data of supermarket sales to investigate the effects of the EU School Fruit campaign, conducted in a sample of primary schools in the city of Rome during 2010 and 2011, on the consumption of unhealthy snacks. We allocate supermarkets to treatment and control groups depending on whether they...

introduction: high percentage of orchard products, such as apples, is wasted due to mechanical damages that cause fruit quality loss. damages due to static or dynamic pressure or impact are among very common mechanical damages that begin to bruise fruits. post-harvest bruise damage is a major cause for the loss in fruit quality. bruising means damaging fruit tissue and consequently physical cha...

study of morphological traits of red fleshed apples is a critical step to improve the quality andcommercializing of them. in order to study genetic diversity of iranian red fleshed apples, a total of 17morphological characteristics were assessed for eight genotypes of red- fleshed (‘haji qermez’, ‘goushtqermez’, ‘shahroud-10’, ‘arous gousht qermz’, ‘b.9’, ‘qazvin 1, 2, 3’) and 12 iranian and fo...