An issue that needs to be addressed is how to harvest and process peppers in order to obtain the highest capsaicin extraction for use in non-food applications. This study was undertaken to investigate this issue using jalapeño peppers as the test material. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of cultivar, fruit color, harvest sequence, and drying parameters (pod physical c...

More than half of today's world population lives in cities and that fraction is steadily growing. Models that accurately capture all segments of the population are necessary in order to design effective policies and new technologies to ensure efficient and stable operations of cities. The current sociology literature has a rich foundation in characterizing the demographics of static population ...

Regarding the conflicting demands of demographic development, mobility desires and needs as well as an increasingly complex transport and traffic environment, the MOBIL 2030 research project investigates what impacts these changes will show on the mobility culture in general and on the individual mobility behavior of the “baby boomers” (who will be aged 65 and older in 2030) in particular. Base...

OBJECTIVES Several risk and protective factors are associated with changes in cognitive functioning in aging adults - including physical health, depression, physical activity, and social activities - though the findings for participation in social activities are mixed. This study investigated the longitudinal association between social participation and two domains of cognitive functioning, mem...

Building on existing research on employee mobility, this paper investigates an inventor?s motivation to move and seeks to answer the question of which inventors move. This paper builds on behavioral and prospect theory, particularly, on the literature on managerial risk taking in order to explore the motivational influences on individual mobility across firms in the pharmaceutical industry spec...

Wage Mobility: Do Institutions Make a Difference? A Replication Study Comparing Portugal and the UK This study compares wage mobility in Portugal and the UK, replicating the work by Dickens (2000) and progressing to discuss the impact of differences in the institutional framework, which is more regulated and centralized in Portugal, with minimum wages, employment protection, and collective barg...

With the development of location-based social networks, an increasing amount of individual mobility data accumulate over time. The more mobility data are collected, the better we can understand the mobility patterns of users. At the same time, we know a great deal about online social relationships between users, providing new opportunities for mobility prediction. This paper introduces a novelt...

In 1986, the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sport released results showing that American youth were not in good physical condition and that schools needed to reemphasize physical education. Within the last 15 years, researchers have obtained reliable data on the effects of physical exercise and activity on the physiological functions (including cardiorespiratory fitness) of childre...

This study gives an overview of publications on factors that are associated with the outcome of voice rehabilitation after laryngectomy. A systematic literature review was conducted. Fifty-six manuscripts were analyzed regarding the parameters investigated, the number of participants included, the study designs used, the assessment instruments, and the results. A broad range of factors were con...

Pancharatnam’s [1] notion of ‘in-phase’ is the underlying principle of the quantal geometric phase [2, 3]. It is based on the physical condition of maximal interference: the vector representatives |A〉 and |B〉 of two nonorthogonal quantal states A and B are in-phase if they produce a maximum in intensity when added. This amounts to the condition 〈B|A〉 > 0, and any deviation from it defines the P...