Fresh vegetables and fruits need oxygen (O2) to carry out their metabolic activities, particularly respiration. The procedure where the actively respiring commodity is sealed in film packages made of polymer change CO2 O2 levels concentration inside package environment required increase shelf-life preserve freshness referred as modified atmosphere packaging (MAP). To affect product's metabolism...

The techniques of vitrification of oocytes and the subsequent warming process being used today are now producing results far superior to the results that are obtained with slow-freezing techniques, and it would seem that this is the method of female fertility preservation that will be widely used in the near future. The reported success of the use of this method should stimulate a renewed debat...

This paper propose a method to achieve wall juggling of a ball without rebound from a table by a racket attached to a robot manipulator with two visual camera sensors. The proposed method is composed of juggling preservation problem and ball regulation problem. The juggling preservation problem means going on hitting the ball iteratively. The ball regulation problem means regulating the hitting...

BACKGROUND The number of large-scale studies on the gut microbiota in human cohorts is rapidly increasing. However, the few and expensive options for storage of fecal samples at room temperature have been an obstacle for large-scale metagenomic studies and the development of clinical/commercial personal metagenomic sequencing. RESULTS In this study, we systematically tested a novel N-octylpyr...

During data sharing process across people, users do not want the information that contains privacy to be shared with everyone else; some people may only want to share it with someone they are familiar with. To solve this issue of privacy preservation in data-sharing applications, we propose a novel user-centric method. Our main contributions include the followings. (1) Users can select key word...

The advantages of blood storage are stressed. Its greatest advantage is the saving of time, which may be a very important factor in an urgent case. A satisfactory method of blood preservation is described. While the preservation time of the oldest blood so far administered was thirty-five days, present indications are that this time may be considerably extended. It requires emphasis,'as previou...

Data loss prevention starts with the creation of a digital object. However, methods to minimize the loss of digital data are often ignored, the use of metadata structures embedded in digital objects from the outset thereof are recommended as a starting point towards good preservation principles. The need to create awareness on the issue of digital preservation was promoted by the authors at var...

A novel method has been developed for preserving molecules in microfluidic devices that also enables the control of the spatial and temporal concentrations of the reconstituted molecules within the devices. In this method, a storage cavity, embedded in a microchannel, is filled with a carbohydrate matrix containing, for example, a reagent. When the matrix is exposed to flowing liquid, it dissol...