Starch granules can be well preserved in a variety of archaeological contexts, for example, in residues and sediments. Therefore, starch analysis has potential to provide another means of tracking the exploitation, dispersal and domestication of Musa bananas and Ensete. Starch granule morphotypes from fruits of Ensete glaucum and wild and cultivated Australimusa and Eumusa bananas were analyzed...

How do we distinguish the sensible yet unlikely (blue bananas) from the nonsensical (hour-long bananas), given observations only of what is true in the world (e.g., yellow bananas)? Judgments like these may be supported by the M constraint: the assumption that ontological categories are organized into a predicability tree, and that properties apply to different subtrees within this hierarchy. W...

Many problems call for a mixture of generic and speci c programming techniques. We propose a polytypic programming approach based on generalised (monadic) folds where a separation is made between basic fold algebras that model generic behaviour and updates on these algebras that model speci c behaviour. We identify particular basic algebras as well as some algebra combinators, and we show how t...

Two banana supply chains (BSC), one in Indonesia (BSC1) and one in Australia (BSC2), are described based on case study research conducted in 2002. BSC1 sources bananas from small farmers for distribution through traditional markets in Jakarta. BSC2 includes farmers supplying to both major and independent retailers in Sydney through a wholesale agency with some farmer ownership. Farmers in both ...

Bananas are one of the largest horticultural commodities in Indonesia because each region there different types bananas. climacteric they will feel experience even though have been harvested. Currently, introduction banana ripeness is still done a conventional way by utilizing sight and smell. However, this method not effective determining fruit maturity we cannot distinguish between ripe banan...

1Diet.?This was a difficulty. The normal food for a gorilla is the tops of bamboo shoots and wild celery, which means an enormous amount of roughage : a male gorilla is said to pass 1 cwt. of faeces a day. The Zoo diet arranged for him was milk, special wholemeal bread, and bananas (he was having forty-eight a day at the outbreak of war), and when bananas were no longer obtainable they were rep...

This paper aimed to develop predictive models determine total soluble solids, firmness, and ripening stages of ‘Pacovan’ bananas, using Vis-NIR spectroscopy machine learning algorithms. A 384 bananas were divided into different days storage (0, 3, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21 days) at two temperatures (25°C 20°C). Bananas subjected spectral analysis a spectrometer operating in range 350 – 2500 nm. Phys...