Hawksbill turtles, Eretmochelys imbricata (Linnaeus, 1766), from Cuban waters of the Caribbean were analyzed to determine the relationships between straight carapace length (SCL) and either straight carapace width (SCW) or body weight (Wt). The regression equations were SCW = 0.9136(SCL)0.951 (R2 = 0.923, n = 315) and Wt = 4.17 10–4(SCL)2.68 (R2 = 0.798, n = 289), respectively. The regression e...

OBJECTIVES 1. Evaluate the effect of washing and cooking iron-fortified rice on iron retention and bioavailability. 2. Evaluate the effect of iron-fortified rice on women with iron deficiency anemia. METHODS 1. Iron-fortified rice (18 mg/100 g as FeSO4) was cooked in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (C), rinsed and cooked (RC), fried and cooked (FC), cooked with extra water (CW), or soaked and cooked w...

CC-BY-ND 4.0 International license peer-reviewed) is the author/funder. It is made available under a The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not. Abstract Gossypium barbadense L. (Egyptian and Pima) produces single celled fiber trichomes that are the longest and richest in cellulosic contents in the plant kingdom. Developmental dissection of fiber at the transcriptional level is cruci...

The aim of this study was to evaluate whether the application two pre-harvest elicitors—methyl-jasmonate (MeJ) and benzothiadiazole (BTH)—to Monastrell grapes, at maturation stages, affected composition structure skin cell walls (SCWs) differing extents. This conducted in 2016–2017 on Vitis vinifera L. cv Monastrell. A water suspension MeJ BTH, a mixture both, applied veraison mid-ripening. ber...

This paper examines an approach to speaker adaptation called speaker cluster weighting (SCW) for rapid adaptation in the Jupiter weather information system. SCW extends the ideas of previous speaker cluster techniques by allowing the speaker cluster models (learned from training data) to be adaptively weighted to match the current speaker. We explore strategies for automatic speaker clustering ...

background: electrocoagulation is a technique involving the electrolytic addition of coagulating metal ions directly from sacrificial electrodes. these ions coagulate with turbidity agents in the water, in a similar manner to the addition of coagulating chemicals such as alum and ferric chloride, and allow the easier removal of the pollutants. purpose of this study was to conduct experimental i...

Nutrients were extracted from corn stalks, peanut shells, de-oiled peanut meal, chicken manure, and sewage sludge by a subcritical water (SCW) hydrolysis reaction. Compared with the other feedstock, the aqueous phases extracted from de-oiled peanut meal showed the highest watersoluble organic carbon, amino acid, total nitrogen, and phosphorus contents. The effects of solution pH, final hydrothe...

In recent years, a growing number of studies have demonstrated that protein hydrolysates interesting functional properties and strong antioxidant capacity, amongst other important bioactivities. this work, the potential subcritical water (ScW) to efficiently extract bioactive contained in brown crab shell residues was evaluated. Aiming at maximizing extraction target molecules, impact operating...

To aide simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), future perception systems will incorporate forms of scene understanding. In a step towards fully integrated probabilistic geometric scene understanding, localization and mapping we propose the first direction-aware semi-dense SLAM system. It jointly infers the directional Stata Center World (SCW) segmentation and a surfel-based semi-dense ma...