ABSTRACT: Mustard is a natural multi-functional additive with strong hot flavor. In this research, powdered yellow mustard (Sinapis alba) was heated by 21 different thermal processes, statistically designed by Response Surface Methodology to evaluate the effects of combinations of heating media (hot air, hot water and steam) and heating time (0-20 min) on residual myrosinase activity, the minim...

It is common practice for digital image capture systems to use a small number of de-facto-standard test targets. Unfortunately, however, color (spectral-) characteristics of the colorants used may differ from those for the population of object/scenes to be captured. This can lead to poor color calibration of the system. A second limitation of current color-capture evaluation arises when the sam...

Monogenic inheritance and linkage among four morphological traits of lentil were established on the basis of F1 observations and analysis of 204 F2 plants in a cross for development of pubescence on peduncle, 228 F2 plants in a cross for tendril formation, 574 F2 plants in 5 crosses for flower numbers per peduncle and 464 F2 plants in 4 crosses for flower color under field conditions. Developme...

BACKGROUND The standard three-tube, three-color flow cytometric method utilizing the TriTEST reagents in conjunction with the MultiSET software commonly used in most laboratories in Thailand for CD4 enumeration is expensive and thus unavailable to most HIV-infected patients. A more affordable method, i.e., the PanLeucogating protocol using only two monoclonal antibody reagents, has been describ...

Changes in workforce demographics have led to the need for more sophisticated approaches to addressing the safety requirements of the construction industry. Despite extensive research in other industry domains, the construction industry has been passive in exploring the impact of a color scheme; perception-related accidents have been effectively diminished by its implementation. The research de...

We present a statistical technique to characterize the global color distribution in an image. The result can be used for color correction of a single image and for comparison of different images. It is assumed that the object colors are similar to those in a set of colors for which spectral reflectances are available (in our experiments we use spectral measurements of the Munsell and NCS color ...

Effects of selectively attending to specific combinations of stimulus location and color were measured by means of event-related brain potentials in a trial-by-trial cueing paradigm. A symbolic precue was presented at the beginning of each trial indicating the response-relevant position and color of an upcoming imperative stimulus. Responses were required to infrequent target stimuli of the rel...

background & aim: smirnova iranica sabeti is one of the valuable and adapted shrub species native to the sandy fields of central iran and of fabaceae family that in terms of the production of forage and soil conservation and creating a beautiful landscape and medicinal value is critically important. no study has been conducted on this plant essence in iran, so far.  experimental: in the hab...

The porcine genome was scanned to identify loci affecting coat color in an experimental cross between the Meishan breed and Dutch commercial lines. Linkage was studied in 1181 F(2) animals for 132 microsatellite markers and seven binary coat color scores: White, Black spotting, Speckle, Gray, Black, and specific color phenotypes for head and legs. The analyses were performed using interval mapp...

Image retrieval is a poor stepchild to other forms of information retrieval (IR). Image retrieval has been one of the most interesting and research areas in the field of computer vision over the last few decades. Content-Based Image Retrieval (CBIR) systems are used in order to automatically index, search, retrieve, and browse image databases. Color and texture features are important properties...