Colour development in fruit of Actinidia chinensis var. chinensis ‘Hort16A’, the new yellowfleshed cultivar produced commercially in New Zealand, was monitored during three seasons in four 42 New Zealand Journal of Crop and Horticultural Science, 2003, Vol. 31 The pericarp of ‘Hort16A’ fruit changes from a light green colour to a light yellow colour as fruit develop on the vine. Virtually no co...

Modeling high-dimensional dependence is widely studied to explore deep relations in multiple variables particularly useful for financial risk assessment. Very often, strong restrictions are applied on a dependence structure by existing high-dimensional dependence models. These restrictions disabled the detection of sophisticated structures such as asymmetry, upper and lower tail dependence betw...

Endovascular surgery (ES) is a minimally invasive procedure used to treat diseases such as stroke, coronary artery disease, and aneurysms. Often, the vascular anatomy exhibits high tortuosity severe angulation, which requires long procedures significant expertise, leads risk of vessel dissection. Here we introduce soft, tip-extending robot-the VINE (Vascular Internal Navigation by Extension) ca...

This paper features an application of Regular Vine (R-vine) copulas, a recently developed statistical tool to assess composite risk. Copula-based dependence modelling is popular in conditional risk assessment, but usually applied pairs variables. By contrast, copulas provide greater flexibility and permit the complex dependency patterns using wide variety bivariate which may be arranged analyse...

The quest for the identification of fruitless branch has been an enduring theological battleground between Calvinists and Arminians who argue as to whether or not removal indicates loss eternal salvation. Using a qualitative approach, this study sought examine various interpretations on security believer with focus three phrases in passage namely; ἐν ἐμοὶ, (in me) airō (cut off) μείνατε ἐμοί (a...

In the context of vineyard and wine process management, producers are looking for novel tools to estimate the growth stage and potential quality of vine grapes. Several studies show the importance of the berry size as a growing and quality indicator. This paper proposes an image processing method to estimate the berry size of vine grapes by image acquisition in the field. The goal is to recover...

The thunder god vine or Tripterygium wilfordii Hook. F. is a representative Chinese medicinal herb which has been used widely and successfully for centuries in treating inflammatory diseases. More than 100 components have been isolated from this plant, and most of them have potent therapeutic efficacy for a variety of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. In the past four decades, the anticance...