Colonizing Bacillus in vanilla (Vanilla planifolia Andrews) beans is involved in glucovanillin hydrolysis and vanillin formation during conventional curing. The flavor profiles of vanilla beans under Bacillus-assisted curing were analyzed through gas chromatography-mass spectrometry, electronic nose, and quantitative sensory analysis. The flavor profiles were analytically compared among the van...

In this paper we derive a market value for with-profits guaranteed annuity options (GAOs) using martingale modelling techniques. Furthermore, we show how to construct a static replicating portfolio of vanilla interest rate swaptions that replicates the with-profits GAO. Finally, we illustrate with historical UK interest rate data from the period 1980 to 2000 that the static replicating portfoli...

We present an overview of Vanilla, a system for building interpreters from components implementing language fragments. We describe Vanilla’s architecture and capabilities, and illustrate its use by defining a simple language feature.

The production of vanilla beans is quite expensive, since it is a very labor intensive process and harvesting takes place two to three years after planting. Due to this, the price of natural vanilla bean extract is quite expensive. It is quite often adulterated with cheaper tonka bean extract, which smells and tastes like vanilla bean extract due to the presence of a compound called coumarin1. ...

Memory is facilitated when the retrieval context resembles the learning context. The brain structures underlying contextual influences on memory are susceptible to stress. Whether stress interferes with context-dependent memory is still unknown. We exposed healthy adults to stress or a control procedure before they learned an object-location task in a room scented with vanilla. Memory was teste...