Research on the utilization of liquid smoke especially for preservation of fruit has been done and become one of alternative methods that can be used to maintain fruit shelf life. Liquid smoke raw ...materials can come from a variety of sources one of which comes from the Alang-alang (Imperata cylindrica). This study aims to determine the ability of liquid smoke made from alang-alang as a preservative of bananas and to know the effect on the characteristics of bananas. The sample used in this research is a local banana known as Pisang Makau (Musa spp). This research uses experimental method with 7 days of storage time. Initial stages of the research are cleaning the fruit, dyeing, drying, and storage at room temperature. This research uses liquid smoke from alang-alang by using 2 various concentrations 50% and 100%. The next stage is the analysis of the characteristics of bananas such as color, fruit texture, fruit weight, sugar content, and vitamin C levels. Based on the analysis results obtained by Pisang Makau with the treatment of liquid has a longer shelf life than the control. Based on the results of the analysis of the shelf life of fruit treated with liquid smoke decreased levels of sugar and vitamin C levels. Percentage decrease levels of sugar and vitamin C between the fruit with the treatment and control not much different. This shows that liquid smoke from alang-alang has the ability to retain the shelf life of bananas without affecting sugar and vitamin C levels in bananas in this case for Pisang Makau. Levels of sugar and vitamin C in bananas decreased during the process of storage and bunding of fruit
▶ Validates barbering in mice as a model of trichotillomania. ▶ Validates stereotypies in mice as model of stereotypies in autism and schizophrenia. ▶ Illustrates key principles of biomarker-based ...“4Ps” animal modeling. ▶ Illustrates specificity of reverse-translated neuropsychological biomarkers. ▶ Shows that barbering and stereotypies are not models of OCD.
The NIMH's new strategic plan, with its emphasis on the “4P's” (Prediction, Pre-emption, Personalization, and Populations) and biomarker-based medicine requires a radical shift in animal modeling methodology. In particular 4P's models will be non-determinant (i.e. disease severity will depend on secondary environmental and genetic factors); and validated by reverse-translation of animal homologues to human biomarkers. A powerful consequence of the biomarker approach is that different closely related disorders have a unique fingerprint of biomarkers. Animals can be validated as a highly specific model of a single disorder by matching this ‘fingerprint’; or as a model of a symptom seen in multiple disorders by matching common biomarkers.
Here we illustrate this approach with two Abnormal Repetitive Behaviors (ARBs) in mice: stereotypies and barbering (hair pulling). We developed animal versions of the neuropsychological biomarkers that distinguish human ARBs, and tested the fingerprint of the different mouse ARBs. As predicted, the two mouse ARBs were associated with different biomarkers. Both barbering and stereotypy could be discounted as models of OCD (even though they are widely used as such), due to the absence of limbic biomarkers which are characteristic of OCD and hence are necessary for a valid model. Conversely barbering matched the fingerprint of trichotillomania (i.e. selective deficits in set-shifting), suggesting it may be a highly specific model of this disorder. In contrast stereotypies were correlated only with a biomarker (deficits in response shifting) correlated with stereotypies in multiple disorders, suggesting that animal stereotypies model stereotypies in multiple disorders.
We undertake detailed near-field numerical modelling of the tsunami generated by the 15 July 2009 earthquake (Mw 7.8) in Fiordland, New Zealand. High resolution bathymetry and topography data at ...Breaksea and Dusky Sounds, and Chalky and Preservation Inlets are derived mostly from digitised New Zealand nautical charts, Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission (SRTM) 3 arc-second data, and General Bathymetric Chart of the Ocean (GEBCO) 30 s data. A combination of continuous and campaign Global Positioning System (GPS), satellite radar (ALOS/PALSAR InSAR images) and seismology data are used to constrain the seafloor deformation for the initial tsunami condition. This source model, derived independently of DART observations, provides an excellent fit to observed tsunami elevations recorded by DART buoy 55015. The model results in the near field show maximum tsunami elevations in the range 0.5–2.0 m inside the sounds and inlets with maximum flow speeds of 3.0 m/s. Along the open coast, maximum tsunami elevations reach 2.0 m. The high flow speeds through the inlets may change the inlet stratifications and water mass inside the sounds. Media reports and field reconnaissance data show some tsunami evidence at Cormorant Cove, Duck and Goose Coves, and Passage Point.
With research and development of the telemedicine and the electronic patient information, the remote wireless health monitoring system is facing the challenge of patient privacy protection. This ...paper proposes an effective patient privacy protection protocol, which protect the privacy of patient information with the encryption algorithm based on identity-based cryptography (IBC) and digital signature during the process of sending, receiving and accessing the patient information, and resist the path monitoring attack of identifying the contact between patients and doctors with the network stream analysis.
Western civilization does not have a particularly good track record of saving cultural heritage from destruction, but in recent centuries it has surrounded itself with a rather firm ideology of ...conservation and preservation. This paper is meant as a caution against a fundamentalist ideology of heritage-preservationism. It discusses some inherent contradictions in how heritage is treated in the modern world, some mutually exclusive ways of consuming heritage involving both destruction and preservation, and some double standards regarding the appreciation of drastic destruction in the past and the condemnation of vandalism and iconoclasm in the present. It is argued that the current appeal of preservation is more a product of history than the appeal of history could be said to be a product of preservation. Destruction and loss are not the opposite of heritage but part of its very substance. It is not the acts of vandals and iconoclasts that are challenging sustainable notions of heritage, but the inability of both academic and political observers to understand and theorize what heritage does, and what is done to it, within the different realities that together make up our one world.
Image blurring attenuate crucial textures and thus always result in a pretty dismal visual experience. Unfortunately, image blurring is difficult to avoid during the image acquisition, hence, lots of ...recent research focus on how to preserve subtle textures while suppress visual artifacts during image deblurring. Among all of the existing image deblurring methods, image priors, such as non-local priors of image gradient, play an important role. Although using prior knowledge improves noise and ringing artifact removal, fine textures always are attenuated as noise or ringing artifact. In order to solve this problem, we introduce a gradient histogram preservation (GHP) based deblurring model. Combining the GHP model with the non-local sparse prior, we impose both a global constraint and a non-local sparse constraint, and are capable of synthesizing rich textures. We introduce an alternative image deblurring scheme, the problem can be separated into several sub-problems and alternatively solved. Our deblurring method constraints the gradient distribution of restored images to approaching the gradient distribution of the latent sharp image. Furthermore, the experimental results on both uniform and non-uniform blurry images substantiate that the proposed deblurring method performs superior to most of the state-of-the-arts.
Image noise is difficult to avoid during the image acquisition and communication, and thus we need to suppress noise in the low level vision. Among all of the existing image denoising methods, image ...priors, such as hyper-Laplacian priors of the heavy-tailed distribution of image gradient, play an important role. However, many denoising methods tend to smooth the fine textures while suppressing noise, degrading the image visual quality. In order to solve this problem, we introduce a gradient histogram preservation (GHP) model. Combining the GHP model with the hyper-Laplacian priors, we can improve the denoising performance. We use the alternating minimization scheme, among the two phases is a non-convex L p - minimization problem. The problem can be solved by two methods, the lookup table (LUT) and the generalized iterative shrinkage algorithm (GISA). Furthermore, the experimental results demonstrate that with the gradient histogram preservation model, we can preserve the image textures while removing noise, leading to a much more natural denoising result.
We consider the problem of publishing sensitive transaction data with privacy preservation. High dimensionality of transaction data poses unique challenges on data privacy and data utility. On one ...hand, re-identification attacks tend to use a subset of items that infrequently occur in transactions, called moles. On the other hand, data mining applications typically depend on subsets of items that frequently occur in transactions, called nuggets. Thus the problem is how to eliminate all moles while retaining nuggets as much as possible. A challenge is that moles and nuggets are multi-dimensional with exponential growth and are tangled together by shared items. We present a novel and scalable solution to this problem. The novelty lies in a compact border data structure that eliminates the need of generating all moles and nuggets.
Cholinergic dysfunction has been implicated in the behavioral and memory impairment that is the hallmark of conditions such as delirium and Alzheimer's Disease. Anticholinergic drugs have been widely ...used in procedures designed to mimic aspects of the pathology of these conditions in rats. Procedures in use vary widely in sensitivity and behavioral specificity and may be confounded by administration of high drug doses that may not be physiologically relevant. The current study proposes the use of rats responding on an alternating lever cyclic-ratio schedule to study the effects of the anticholinergic compound atropine sulfate. This procedure enables simultaneous measurement of anticipatory ratio tracking (postreinforcement pause durations), perseverations (lever switching errors), and nonspecific peripheral drug effects (running response rates). Results of this study suggest that the schedule is sensitive to low drug doses (0.1–1.0 mg/kg atropine), measures the ability to track changing ratio conditions and to execute lever alternation, and allows for monitoring of peripheral drug effects during behavioral testing. The procedure's sensitivity and low effective dose range may make it useful in the study of behaviors related to anticholinergic effects.
Člankom dajemo kritički prikaz Programa poticanja obnove
raseljenih i zapuštenih sela „Etno-eko“ Splitsko-dalmatinske
županije kojim se potiče obnova sela kao turističkog resursa.
Problematiziramo ...izradu prostorno-planske dokumentacije za
obnovu sela. Imajući u vidu da će snimak postojećeg stanja i
analiza naselja ostati trajni dokument o tradicijskoj gradnji koja
se novom namjenom transformira, dajemo upute o sadržaju i
mjerilu geodetskog snimka koji bi trebao biti podloga za izradu
arhitektonskog snimka svake građevine te navodimo elemente
koje treba sadržavati svaki konzervatorski elaborat sa smjernicama
za izradu prostornih planova. Osvrćemo se na vrstu i
sadržaj prostornih planova koje propisuje Zakon o prostornom
planiranju, a koje smatramo neadekvatnim za planiranje u ruralnom
prostoru.
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