The present study was conducted to determine the repeatability of color stability measurements and to evaluate relationships among color stability data collected under differing sampling and aging protocols. Beef (Bos taurus) carcasses (n = 100) were selected at grading in a commercial facility, after which a LM steak was removed from the 13th rib of each carcass and immediately placed in simul...

The eff ect of pre-treatment on the permeation property of the Nafi on ionomer membrane has been evaluated. The membranes were subjected to diff erent pre-treatment procedures, viz treated with acid at room temperature, boiling with acid or boiling with water followed by cold acid. Diff erent characterization techniques were used to understand the changes. From UV-Visib...

▼ Objective: In clinical practice Body Mass Index is generally used to evaluate overweight status in adults. The present multicenter study examines whether Body Mass Index (BMI), ageand gender-adjusted Body Mass Index Standard Deviation Score, or calculated %body fat is a better predictor for cardiovascular disease risk factors, specifi cally hypertension and dyslipidemia, in a high-risk popula...

vehicles. Sliding mode control was one of the fi rst control methods implemented for underwater vehicles. It has shown advantages in several implementations. Different control methodologies used for underwater vehicles are categorized by Fossen. In the work of Logan, H/msynthesis methods are compared with the sliding mode method. A comparison of different control techniques, including artifi ci...

Logistic regression analysis may well be used to develop a predictive model for a dichotomous medical outcome, such as short-term mortality. When the data set is small compared to the number of covariables studied, shrinkage techniques may improve predictions. We compared the performance of three variants of shrinkage techniques: 1) a linear shrinkage factor, which shrinks all coef®cients with ...

Motivated by calibration problems in near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy, we consider the linear regression setting in which the many predictor variables arise from sampling an essentially continuous curve at equally spaced points and there may be multiple predictands. We tackle this regression problem by calculating the wavelet transforms of the discretized curves, then applying a Bayesian variab...

A blind box economy has emerged in 2019, reflecting new consumption psy-chology among the young Z generation. Based on previous studies Customer Perceived Value (CPV), customer satisfaction, and loyalty, this study analyzes 12 characteristics, 5 CPV, loyalty via questionnaires interviews. Better-Worse Coeffi-cient analysis, characteristic, Kano attribute classification of CPV are used to determ...

Studies in which data from multiple patients are collected per clinician or per practice are becoming common in primary care research, particularly with the increase of studies conducted in practicebased research networks. These studies generate data that are clustered. A special case of clustered data is an intervention study where clinicians or practices are randomized into an intervention or...

Background and objectives: Soluble components are increasingly analyzed in induced sputum supernatant. However, only a few studies have measured total or specifi c immunoglobulin (Ig) E in sputum and none have attempted to validate it. We aim to validate laboratory measurements of total and specifi c IgE in induced sputum supernatant and to evaluate the infl uence of sputum processing with dith...

Osmotic drying is a process of partial removal of water by submersing fruits in sucrose solution. Th e goal of this paper is to examine kinetic features of osmotic drying of apricot halves in sucrose solution. For osmotic drying of apricot halves in a thick immovable layer, a planned experiment was conducted. Experimental results were used to create an empirical model of osmotic drying kinetics...