This study was undertaken to elucidate the dominant endogenous gibberellins (GA) and the changes in their levels in germinating barley during malting. Also, a method for determining gibberellins in barley and malt by combined gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) was developed. Endogenous gibberellins in germinating Fuji Nijo I I and Betzes barley were sequentially extracted with ethanol...


 Date palm seeds (Phoenix dactylifera L.) are known to contain phenolic compounds that have the potential as natural nephroprotective agents. Phenolics with solvents suitable for polarity and identified by phytochemical screening, GC-MS analysis, activity assays. This research went through 3 stages, screening exploration qualitative analysis of GCMS. The anti-nephrotoxic test used a pre-p...

In this paper we discuss the problem of efficient use of Content Management Systems in the development of a web site, and we propose a new approach towards the definition of a Green Content Management System (GCMS). Our GCMS distinguishes between pages which contain dynamic data and pages which are not supposed to change frequently. This second kind of documents is generated, off-line, every ti...

Cloud-climate interactions are one of the greatest uncertainties in contemporary general circulation models (GCMs) (Cess et al. 1989, 1990), and the present study has focused on one aspect of this. Specifically, combined satellite and near-surface shortwave (SW) flux measurements have been used to test the impact of clouds on the SW radiation budget of two GCMs. Concentration is initially on SW...

Current evaluations of GCMs, as detailed by the IPCC AR5, show that different GCMs often illustrate different skills for different tasks. The IPCC uses an average or multi-model ensemble (MME) for future projections. In this work, we consider evaluating and combining GCMs for multiple tasks from a multi-task learning (MTL) perspective. MTL is an approach to machine learning that learns multiple...

The aim of this study was to compare the volatile compounds between Changyu XO and Hennessy XO. Sensory evaluation was performed by a panel of tasters. Qualitative and semi-quantitative analysis was achieved by headspace solid phase micro-extraction (HS-SPME), coupled with gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GCMS) and gas chromatography-olfactometry (GC-O). A total of 160 volatile compounds w...

The determination of atmospheric concentrations of levoglucosan and its two isomers, unambiguous tracers of biomass burning emissions, became even more important with the development of wood as renewable energy for domestic heating. Many researches demonstrated the increase during recent years of atmospheric particulate matter load due to domestic biomass combustion in developed countries. Anal...

Analytical procedures using gas chromatography–ion trap tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS) were developed to analyze atrazine (ATR) and its dealkylated metabolites in four forage species (switchgrass, tall fescue, smooth bromegrass, and orchardgrass). Atrazine, deethylatrazine (DEA), and deisopropylatrazine (DIA) were extracted with methanol (CH3OH) followed by liquid–liquid extraction and par...

Recent studies have examined tropical upper tropospheric warming by comparing coupled atmosphere–ocean global circulation model (GCM) simulations from Phase 3 of the Coupled Model Intercomparison Project (CMIP3) with satellite and radiosonde observations of warming in the tropical upper troposphere relative to the lower-middle troposphere. These studies showed that models tended to overestimate...

[1] Hydrologic impacts of climate change are usually assessed by downscaling the General Circulation Model (GCM) output of large-scale climate variables to local-scale hydrologic variables. Such an assessment is characterized by uncertainty resulting from the ensembles of projections generated with multiple GCMs, which is known as intermodel or GCM uncertainty. Ensemble averaging with the assig...