Promising new tools for peach fruit quality breeding have been revised in this work. These tools included fruit quality evaluation through physical, chemical and sensorial parameters and post-harvest storage evaluation. The development of a feasible method for an early testing of peach selections generated in breeding programs is also well described together with the discussion of the inheritan...

INTRODUCTION To investigate the existence of peripheral and optic neuropathies in asymptomatic individuals with hepatitis C infection. METHODS Thirty consecutive patients who were followed in a hepatitis C outpatient clinic were recruited for electrophysiological evaluation together with 30 age- and gender-compatible healthy controls. All patients had a detailed neurological examination. The ...

Pediatric rehabilitation requires a multidisciplinary team approach to disabilities or handicaps caused by physical, mental, sensory-perceptional, or cognitive disorders due to prenatal, natal, or postnatal causes. Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as persistent but not progressive disorder of posture and movement system, associated with functional activity limitations and sensorial, cognitive, co...

Antigenous is an immersive interactive installation model where the full-body gestures of the audience-participant, generate, interact with and modify the sonic expressions and the post-image impressions emanating from the interaction processes itself. The work is a metaphoric representation of the antigenous reaction caused by a foreign body invading an organism the installation is composed of...

The use of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in the treatment of foodstuffs presents some problems as it could lead to pseudo-allergies in some people. The aim of this research work was to study the addition of different preservative mixtures and their influence on the concentration of volatile compounds and sensorial quality in wine. To do so, vinifications were carried out using Garnacha must to which ly...

Methylated chickpea protein (MCP) or native chickpea protein (NCP) were supplemented to milk (0.5%) and combined with a mild thermization (65oC/ 5 min) treatment before storing at 4oC for 30 days. The influence of these combined treatments was assessed on milk physicochemical, nutritional and sensorial quality during storage. Supplementation of milk samples with MCP (0.5% w/v) significantly (p ...

The aim of this work is to evaluate the activity of allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) against fish spoilage bacteria (specific spoilage organisms; SSOs) as well as its possible use in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fillets to extend their shelf-life. In this regard, in vitro tests are carried out in order to evaluate the inhibitory activity of AITC and its vapours on several strains of SSOs. The ...

This paper describes the integration of several cognitively inspired anticipation and anticipatory learning mechanisms in an autonomous agent architecture, the Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent (LIDA) system. We provide computational mechanisms for variants of payoff, state, and sensorial anticipatory mechanisms. The payoff anticipatory mechanism in LIDA is implicitly realized by the acti...

Rocket salad (Diplotaxis tenuifolia; wild rocket) is an important component of ready to eat salads providing a distinct peppery flavour and containing nutritionally relevant compounds. Quality deteriorates during post-harvest, in relation to time and storage temperature amongst other factors. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are easily measurable from rocket leaves and may provide useful quali...

A Sparse Distributed Memory (SDM) is a kind of associative memory suitable to work with high-dimensional vectors of random data. This memory model is attractive for Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, for it is able to mimic many characteristics of the human long-term memory. However, sensorial data is not always random: most of the times it is based on the Natural Binary Code (NBC) and tends...