Ecology of the lactic acid bacteria (LAB) during alcoholic fermentation (AF) and spontaneous malolactic fermentation (MLF) of Tempranillo wines from four wineries of La Rioja has been studied analyzing the influence of the winemaking method, processing conditions, and geographical origin. Five different LAB species were isolated during AF, while, during MLF, only Oenococcus oeni was detected. A...

Wireless communication is truly indispensable for us in our daily life. It is reported that the number of subscribers of cellar phone in Japan is approaching 118 million as of the end of July this year, which corresponds to the penetration rate of 92%. With this situation, LTE (Long Term Evolution) system will be put into commercial use very soon to provide high speed signal transmission for ub...

A strictly anaerobic, Gram-stain-positive bacterium, designated FW431T, was isolated from a mud cellar used for producing strong aromatic Chinese liquors. The strain was able to produce butanoic acid, an important component of the aroma style of Chinese liquors. Cells of strain FW431T were straight or slightly curved rods with a polar endospore and peritrichous flagella. The major cellular fatt...

This paper presents a multipurpose and low cost sensor for the simultaneous monitoring of temperature and ullage of wine in barrels in two of the most important stages of winemaking, that being fermentation and maturation. The distributed sensor subsystem is imbedded within the bung of the barrel and runs on battery for a period of at least 12 months and costs around $27 AUD for all parts. In a...

The present research studied Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeasts isolated from Nero d'Avola grapes, collected in different areas of the Sicily region. RAPD-PCR analysis with M13 primer was used for preliminary discrimination among 341 S. cerevisiae isolates. Inoculated fermentations with S. cerevisiae strains, exhibiting different RAPD-PCR fingerprinting, revealed the impact of selected strains on ...

A major issue in the study of word perception concerns the nature (perceptual or nonperceptual) of sentence context effects. The authors compared effects of legal, word replacement, nonword replacement, and transposed contexts on target word performance using the Reicher-Wheeler task to suppress nonperceptual influences of contextual and lexical constraint. Experiment 1 showed superior target w...

The skeletal remains of six perinatal infants were found during archaeological excavation of the Parramatta convict hospital. Perinatal refers to the period around birth, from 24 weeks gestation to 7 postnatal days. Two individuals were found in a double grave dated to the second convict hospital c.1800–c.1810, one individual in a storage cellar dated to c.1820 (second hospital) and three indiv...

Dr. Hawley Crippen was accused and convicted of murdering his wife in London in 1910. Key to the conviction was microscopic analysis of remains found in the Crippen’s coal cellar, which were identified as Cora Crippen based on a scar she was said to have. Dr. Crippen was hanged, always proclaiming his innocence. In this study, genealogical research was used to locate maternal relatives of Cora ...

For this project, I attempted to characterize how the perceived quality of wine relates to its age. To do this, I performed analysis on the Cellar Tracker data set of wine reviews. Through exploration of the data set I found that wine does not age consistently. There was a noticeable shift in the trend of review scores as the wines’ age increased. I performed various forms of regression analysi...