The controlling importance of microstructure in deep-fat frying has been greatly recognized when studying oil absorption mechanisms. This knowledge should be considered when designing novel fabricated products and the use of non-destructive microscopic techniques could be helpful in doing so. Food products formulation by the combination of components derived from raw agricultural materials, or ...

Healthier meat products have a major economic potential and are attracting considerable research media attention to meet the growing complex consumer demand. Whether this will be realized at what speed is contingent on consumers’ acceptance of these novel foods. This study uses cross-cultural context co-create new healthier products, while mapping conditions leading product (vs. rejection). Res...

In technical drawings and medical drawings/maps it is often common to explain certain features of the drawing by blocks of text that are arranged on its boundary. Bekos et. al. introduced the term boundary labelling to describe this special type of labelling and presented algorithms for automatic boundary labelling. BLer is a prototype tool aiming to automate the boundary labelling process. It ...

For positive integers k and d ≥ 2, a k-S(d, 1)-labelling of a graph G is a function on the vertex set of G, f : V (G) → {0, 1, 2, · · · , k− 1}, such that |f(u)− f(v)|k ≥ { d if dG(u, v) = 1; 1 if dG(u, v) = 2, where |x|k = min{|x|, k − |x|} is the circular difference modulo k. In general, this kind of labelling is called the S(d, 1)-labelling. The σdnumber of G, σd(G), is the minimum k of a k-...

Background: Niu Huang Jie Du Pian (NHJDP) is a widely used realgar-containing Chinese medicine remedy. Most brands are composed of eight ingredients: Niuhuang (Calculus Bovis), Xionghuang (realgar), gypsum (calcium sulphate), Dahuang (Radix et Rhizoma Rhei), Huangqin (Radix Scutellariae), Jugeng (Platycodon grandiflorum), Bingpian (borneol), and Gancao (Radix Glycyrrhizae uralensis, licorice ro...

Deterministic annealing and relaxation labeling algorithms for classiication and matching are presented and discussed. A new approach |self annealing|is introduced to bring deterministic annealing and relaxation labeling into accord. Self annealing results in an emergent linear schedule for winner-take-all and assignment problems. Also, the relaxation labeling algorithm can be seen as an approx...

In this paper, we tackle the problem of matching of objects in video in the context of the rough indexing paradigm. The approach developed is based on matching of region adjacency graphs (RAG) of pre-segmented objects. In the context of the rough indexing paradigm, the video data are of very low resolution and segmentation is consequently inaccurate. Hence the RAGs vary with the time. The contr...

A novel approach to junction detection using an explicit line finder model and contextual rules is presented. Contextual rules expressing properties of 3D-edges (surface orientation discontinuities) limit the number of line intersections interpreted as junctions. Probabilistic relaxation labelling scheme is used to combine the a priori world knowledge represented by contextual rules and the inf...