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... BACKGROUND: Metabolomics represents a powerful tool for exploring modulation of the human metabolome in response to food intake. However, the choice of multivariate statistical approach is not always evident, especially for complex experimental designs with repeated measurements per individual. Here we have investigated the serum metabolic responses to two breakfast meals: an egg and ham based bre ...
beers; chemical interactions; chemometrics; data collection; discriminant analysis; least squares; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; organic acids and salts; pH; prediction; principal component analysis
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... In this study, ¹H NMR spectroscopy was used to classify samples of beer, considering three categories (Ambev, Heineken, and Grupo Petrópolis), employing chemometric methods: principal component analysis (PCA), partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), and soft independent modeling of class analogies (SIMCA). The full NMR spectra were evaluated, although only the aliphatic region (0–3 p ...
Capsicum annuum; amino acids; antioxidants; ascorbic acid; bioavailability; cultivars; databases; discriminant analysis; free amino acids; hot peppers; human nutrition; metabolites; metabolomics; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; phenolic acids; phylogeny; principal component analysis; Mexico
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... Approximately 90% of the chili peppers consumed in the world are harvested in Mexico. The present article describes the untargeted 1H NMR-based metabolomic profiling of 11 cultivars of Capsicum annuum species which are routinely consumed worldwide. The metabolomic fingerprinting detected via 1H NMR contained 44 metabolites including sugars, amino acids, organic acids, polyphenolic acids and alcoho ...
... Guilingji (GLJ), a famous and classical traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) prescription, has been used to extend the lifespan and improve the life qualities of the elderly for hundreds of years in China.Aim of the study: We aimed to explore the protective effects of GLJ on the testicular dysfunction of aging rats, as well as the regulating effects of GLJ on the metabolic disturbance and metabolite ...
biomarkers; cheese ripening; cheeses; chemical analysis; choline; dairies; discriminant analysis; highlands; lysine; metabolites; metabolomics; milk; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; pastures; raw milk; tyrosine; water solubility; Italy
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... The study was carried out in an alpine area of North-Eastern Italy to assess the reliability of proton nuclear magnetic resonance 1H NMR to fingerprint and discriminate Asiago PDO cheeses processed in the same dairy plant from upland pasture-based milk or from upland hay-based milk. Six experimental types of Asiago cheese were made from raw milk considering 2 cows’ feeding systems (pasture- ...
Chiara Roberta Girelli; Federica Angilè; Laura Del Coco; Danilo Migoni; Luigi Zampella; Simone Marcelletti; Nicola Cristella; Paolo Marangi; Marco Scortichini; Francesco Paolo Fanizzi
... Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca is a xylem-limited bacterial phytopathogen currently found associated on many hectares with the “olive quick decline syndrome” in the Apulia region (Southern Italy), and the cultivars Ogliarola salentina and Cellina di Nardò result in being particularly sensitive to the disease. In order to find compounds showing the capability of reducing the pop ...
... MAIN CONCLUSION: ATR-FTIR spectroscopy with subsequent multivariate analysis non-destructively identifies plant–pathogen interactions during disease progression, both directly and indirectly, through alterations in the spectral fingerprint. Plant–environment interactions are essential to understanding crop biology, optimizing crop use, and minimizing loss to ensure food security. Damage-induced pa ...
Triticum aestivum; adults; basins; cadmium; carbonates; children; chromium; copper; corn; corn cobs; discriminant analysis; fluorides; fractionation; health effects assessments; heavy metals; hulls; human health; lead; leaves; males; manganese; municipal wastewater; nickel; risk; roots; sewage; soil; soil pollution; stems; streams; wastewater irrigation; water solubility; wheat; zinc; China
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... Untreated industrial sewage and domestic wastewater irrigation has led to agricultural soil-crop system contamination by heavy metals and fluoride in Dongdagou and Xidagou stream basins, Baiyin city, China. A total of 36 pairs of soil and wheat samples (roots, stalks, leaves, husks, and grains) and 42 pairs of soil and maize samples (roots, stalk1, stalk2, stalk3, leaves, husks, corncobs and grain ...
Gastrodia elata; Oriental traditional medicine; algorithms; discriminant analysis; high performance liquid chromatography; least squares; medicinal properties; prediction; principal component analysis; provenance
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... Gastrodia elata from different geographical origins varies in quality and pharmacological activity. This study focused on the classification and identification of Gastrodia elata from six producing areas using high‐performance liquid chromatography fingerprint combined with boosting partial least‐squares discriminant analysis. Before recognition analysis, a principal component analysis was applied ...
Cervidae; Gazella subgutturosa; acoustics; adults; age structure; discriminant analysis; females; gazelles; neonates; nose
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... Relationships between individualization and the acoustics of contact calls in ungulate mother and young are different between taxa. We compared the acoustic variables and individuality of adult female and neonate goitred gazelles Gazella subgutturosa. Discriminant function analysis based on six acoustic variables of nasal (closed-mouth) contact calls similarly accurately classified calls to neonat ...
adulterants; adulterated products; discriminant analysis; duck meat; ducks; electronic nose; flavor; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; least squares; markets; mutton; neural networks; public health; quantitative analysis; rapid methods; spectrometers; volatile organic compounds; China
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... Battling meat adulteration is essential in preserving both public health and a fair market. This study depicts a method of reducing adulteration in meats, in which Electronic-nose (E-nose) and gas chromatography-mass spectrometer (GC-MS) were applied to identify adulterants in mutton. Duck meat was selected as a model adulterant due to its lower cost and similarity in flavor to mutton, as well as ...
apoptosis; biomarkers; blood cells; blood serum; building construction; chemical reactions; cytokinesis; discriminant analysis; genotoxicity; genotype-environment interaction; karyotyping; metabolites; metabolome; metabolomics; mutagens; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; patients; reciprocal translocation; trisomics
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... Clinical biomarkers of building construction workers (BCW)-related genetic risk and metabolome fluctuations are still lacking, and profiling and validating them is challenging. Metabolomics is well suited to address this need, and serum is a valuable and accessible biofluid. This study aimed to characterize the 1H nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR)-based serum metabolomics and discrimination of pati ...
discriminant analysis; disease detection; electronic nose; fish; freshness; fruits; high performance liquid chromatography; livestock; meat; odors; principal component analysis; provenance; sensory evaluation; tandem mass spectrometry; tea
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... High agricultural product quality is a fundamental requirement for consumers and odor is an important indicator that reflects product quality. Conventional analysis methods are based on sensory evaluation or on physic-chemical methods (e.g., high-performance liquid chromatography, liquid chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry). Analysis methods should be simple, quick, nondestructive, inexpe ...
adulterants; adulterated products; algorithms; calibration; chemometrics; diesel fuel; discriminant analysis; infrared spectroscopy; kerosene; least squares; markets; models; physicochemical properties; principal component analysis; screening; storage quality; storage time
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... Adulteration is a recurrent issue found in fuel screening. Commercial diesel contamination by kerosene is highly difficult to be detected via physicochemical methods applied in market. Although the contamination may affect diesel quality and storage stability, there is a lack of efficient methodologies for this evaluation. This paper assessed the use of IR spectroscopies (MIR and NIR) coupled with ...
body weight; crossbreds; discriminant analysis; geometry; hatching; honey bees; hybrids; hypopharyngeal glands; inbred lines; morphometry; proboscis; rearing; royal jelly; wings
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... We reared the cross-bred FD lineage (F♀ × D♂) from inbred lines in pursuit of high royal jelly (RJ)-producing honeybee traits. The present study compared the new crossbred FD line to a high RJ-producing colony (HRC) and a low RJ-producing colony (LRC) by investigating the production of RJ, morphological characteristics, and age-dependent hypopharyngeal gland (HPG) development of the honeybees. The ...
cheeses; data collection; discriminant analysis; electronic nose; least squares; lodging; neural networks; odors; prediction; principal component analysis; response surface methodology; storage time; support vector machines
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... This research was conducted to classify different types of cheeses using an electronic nose (e-nose). The experiments were accomplished in three storage periods such as on days 1, 7, and 14. To classify and analyze the output response of the sensors, artificial neural network (ANN), principal component analysis (PCA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), support vector machine (SVM), partial least ...
... In this study, genetic diversity of agro-morphological traits and population structure of 167 chickpea were assessed using genomic-SSR and EST-SSR molecular markers. Field evaluation of chickpea genotypes showed highly variation for most of measured characteristics such as: number of pods per plant, number of seeds per plant, 100-seed weight and seed yield. Cluster analysis based on morphological ...
... Characterization of four Bambara groundnut populations regrouping one hundred one accessions collected from four agro-ecological zones in Côte d’Ivoire was made using 19 agro-morphological traits. Descriptive statistics indicated a wide range and high phenotypic variability within each population. Analyses of variance showed highly significant agro-morphological differentiation among populations. ...
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey; added sugars; ascorbic acid; calcium; children; choline; discriminant analysis; eating habits; food intake; food processing; iron; magnesium; nutrient content; nutrients; nutritional adequacy; potassium; processed foods; regression analysis; saturated fats; sodium; vitamin A
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... Processed foods are associated with energy-dense eating patterns among children, yet research using food processing classification systems has led to varying conclusions regarding the impact of processed foods on dietary quality. This study utilized three common classification systems to examine (a) agreement between systems for processing level assignment, and (b) relationships between processing ...
... Some of the most striking behaviors of animals are displays used in courtship, territorial behavior, and in defense against predators. Among reptiles, lizards exhibit enormous diversity in the stereotyped motion patterns of their bobbing displays. Although the bobbing displays of numerous lizard species have been described to date, those of the Galápagos Lava Lizards (Microlophus spp., Tropidurida ...
Scotch whisky; chemometrics; discriminant analysis; ethanol; least squares; malt; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; principal component analysis; provenance; reference standards; wood
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... Scotch Whisky has been analysed as a complex mixture in its raw form using high resolution Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and previously developed water and ethanol suppression techniques. This has allowed for the positive identification of 25 compounds in Scotch Whisky by means of comparison to reference standards, spike-in experiments, and advanced 1D and 2D NMR experiments. Quantification of ...
... Discrete Element Method (DEM) simulations of elongated (i.e. needle-shaped) particles breakage in a shear field confined between two parallel plates, in analogy with processes occurring in a powder shear cell tester, were carried out. Effects of particle strength, shear rate and the compressive stress were investigated. The breakage patterns occurring in a layer of particles due to compressive and ...
Thiago G. Schwanz; Liane V.V. Bokowski; Marcelo C.A. Marcelo; Angela C. Jandrey; Jailson C. Dias; Daniel H. Maximiano; Luciana S. Canova; Oscar F.S. Pontes; Guilherme P. Sabin; Samuel Kaiser
chemometrics; cigarettes; color; discriminant analysis; fermentation; flavor; heterocyclic nitrogen compounds; heterocyclic oxygen compounds; least squares; leaves; models; plant cultural practices; polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons; smoke; sucrose esters; sugar content; Virginia
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... Commercial cigarettes are made from a blend of different tobacco varieties, which in turn are the results of different agronomic practices and post-harvest curing processes. The highly complex mixture of smoke compounds reflects each tobacco variety and the levels of sensory-relevant markers. Therefore, the aim of this work was to identify potential relevant chemosensory markers in the mainstream ...
Haemophilus; Neisseria; Prevotella; Streptococcus; athletes; carbohydrates; diet; discriminant analysis; eating habits; energy intake; fatigue strength; formaldehyde; genes; human health; least squares; males; microbiome; microorganisms; multidimensional scaling; ribosomal RNA; saliva; Asia; Australia; Europe; North America; South America
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... Although the oral microbiota is known to play a crucial role in human health, there are few studies of diet x oral microbiota interactions, and none in elite athletes who may manipulate their intakes of macronutrients to achieve different metabolic adaptations in pursuit of optimal endurance performance. The aim of this study was to investigate the shifts in the oral microbiome of elite male endur ...
Danio rerio; active ingredients; aquatic environment; biomarkers; discriminant analysis; embryo (animal); essential genes; fish; gene expression regulation; inflammation; interleukin-1beta; interleukin-8; larvae; least squares; messenger RNA; oocytes; oxidative stress; personal care products; phenotype; risk; sexual development; signal transduction; transcription (genetics); translation (genetics)
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... Climbazole is an antifungal active ingredient used in personal care products. After application this chemical reaches the aquatic environment and may pose a risk to fish. In the present study, we measured the transcriptional effects of essential genes related to a wide range of signaling pathways on zebrafish eleutheroembryos exposed to climbazole at environmentally relevant and predicted worst‐ca ...
... Exhaled breath from 60 volunteers (20 adenocarcinoma lung cancer (LC) patients, 10 squamous cell carcinoma LC patients, and 30 healthy people) was analyzed using proton-transfer-reaction mass spectrometry (PTR-MS). The Mann–Whitney U test and stepwise forward linear discriminant analysis (LDA) were performed for data analysis. By applying LDA, it was possible to discriminate these three groups. Co ...
... Sunn pest is one of the most destructive insects in the western and central parts of Asia causing severe reductions of wheat yield and flour quality. Therefore, an effort was undertaken to find effective resistance by analyzing genetic variation among 25 wheat genotypes artificially infested in field-cages as well as using start codon targeted (SCoT) polymorphism and inter- retrotransposon amplifi ...
... Olive oil phenolic compounds are receiving increased attention due to its influence on sensory characteristics and to scientific evidences of positive health effects. In this work, 28 ancient olive trees were selected and, during four consecutive seasons (2014–2017), oils were extracted and their phenolic fraction characterized. Hydroxytyrosol and tyrosol secoiridoids were the predominant groups, ...
... Culex sitiens Wiedemann (Diptera, Culicidae) is a mosquito vector that is found in coastal areas. Effective control of mosquitoes requires knowledge of the biology, ecology, and behavior of the vector as well as of various other aspects, including its morphology. Currently, variations in the wing size and shape of coastal Cx. sitiens have not been described. Here, morphological changes were studie ...
Helichrysum; Human immunodeficiency virus 1; RNA-directed DNA polymerase; acetone; aerial parts; antiviral properties; binding sites; bioassays; carbohydrates; computer simulation; discriminant analysis; doxorubicin; hexane; immunosuppression; infectious diseases; inhibitory concentration 50; mechanism of action; metabolomics; methylene chloride; models; moieties; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; principal component analysis; quinic acid; solvents; traditional medicine; viruses
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... Helichrysum species are widely used in traditional medicine with potential against infectious diseases. Extraction of the aerial parts of 32 Helichrysum species was done using polar (methanol:water (1:1)) and non-polar (hexane, dichloromethane and acetone) solvent systems. Anti-human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) bioassays revealed that polar extracts of H. mimetes and H. chrysargyrum (2.5 μg/mL), ...
... Antimicrobial peptides killed bacteria through intercalating into the bacterial membrane. Their antimicrobial efficiencies varied in bacterial species and were affected by ion strength in the culture medium. A recombinant IGP protein consisted of an antimicrobial peptide, Ib-AMP4 fused with the Green Fluorescent Protein was expressed from E. coli cells and was found to maintain the antimicrobial a ...
Vita Di Stefano; Rosa Pitonzo; Maria Eugenia Novara; David Bongiorno; Serena Indelicato; Carla Gentile; Giuseppe Avellone; Rosaria Bognanni; Salvatore Scandurra; Maria Grazia Melilli
... BACKGROUND: Pomegranate fruits are a rich source of polyphenols with numerous health‐promoting effects. Pomegranate juices of five genotypes (‘Mollar’, ‘Kingdom’, ‘Dente di Cavallo’, and two old populations ‘Francofonte’ and ‘Santa Tecla’) were evaluated regarding anthocyanin and non‐anthocyanin phenolic contents using ultrahigh performance liquid chromatography (UHPLC)–Orbitrap‐mass spectrometry ...
Daniel Mieres-Castro; Guillermo Schmeda-Hirschmann; Cristina Theoduloz; Sergio Gómez-Alonso; José Pérez-Navarro; Katherine Márquez; Felipe Jiménez-Aspee
... The berries from the native Chilean Gaultheria phillyreifolia and G. poeppigii are appreciated for their sweet taste and aroma. Fruits from both species were investigated for their secondary metabolite composition and antioxidant activity. The extracts were submitted to membrane chromatography to separate anthocyanins from copigments. Four anthocyanins were isolated by counter-current chromatograp ...
Internet; age determination; children; crime; databases; discriminant analysis; face; females; forensic sciences; males; photographs; Brazil
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... Child pornography on the internet is one of the crimes with highest increasing incidence worldwide. In this specific type of crime, the victim’s age has important legal implications. To overcome the lack of scientifically established protocols, European researchers explored and proposed a set of facial proportions obtained from images to estimate age. Within a validation scope, the present study a ...
agricultural soils; available water capacity; bulk density; burning; case studies; crop residue management; data collection; discriminant analysis; durum wheat; field capacity; field experimentation; growing season; long term experiments; minimum tillage; monitoring; multivariate analysis; no-tillage; plant available water; principal component analysis; soil quality; straw; uncertainty; Italy
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... Core Ideas Soil physical quality (SPQ) on two long‐term experiments was evaluated. Relationships among five SPQ indicators (BD, PMAC, AC, PAWC and RFC) were evaluated. Two multivariate analysis techniques (PCA, SDA) were applied to select key indicators. PCA and SDA generally identified RFC as a key soil physical indicator. An optimal AC range was suggested to assess the air capacity of agricultur ...
Borneo; Hylobatidae; accuracy; bioacoustics; classification; data collection; discriminant analysis; extraction; females; habitat fragmentation; mammals; prediction; seasons; support vector machines; windows; Malaysia
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... Vocal individuality has been documented in a variety of mammalian species and it has been proposed that this individuality can be used as a vocal fingerprint to monitor individuals. Here we provide and test a classification method using Mel-frequency cepstral coefficients (MFCCs) to extract features from Bornean gibbon female calls. Our method is semi-automated as it requires manual pre-processing ...
chocolate; chocolate liquor; cocoa beans; cocoa butter; cocoa industry; data collection; discriminant analysis; electronic nose; experts; markets; nondestructive methods; principal component analysis; rapid methods; sugars; support vector machines
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... Chocolate is one of the most consumed products in the world. Chocolate is a mixture of roasted cocoa beans and ultrafine particles of sugar (or without containing cocoa butter). The mixture is supplied with different percentages of cocoa in the market. In this research, the ability of an olfactory system is evaluated as a fast, nondestructive, and low‐cost method to detect bitter chocolates with d ...
... Chemometric techniques were employed to discriminate two Indonesian seaweed cultivars (Kappaphycus alvarezii and Sargassum duplicatum) based on their physico-functional properties. Data of physico-functional properties, including emulsifying activity and bulk density, were processed using multivariate, discriminant analysis (DA), principal component analysis (PCA), and cluster analysis (CA). Signi ...
Prunus dulcis; alcohols; almonds; benzaldehyde; chemometrics; cultivars; discriminant analysis; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; headspace analysis; monitoring; off flavors; oxidation; principal component analysis; raw fruit; roasting; solid phase microextraction; volatile compounds
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... In almonds, volatile compounds are major contributors to flavour, being scarce the current knowledge about their volatile profile. Hence, this work intended to characterize the volatile profile, using headspace solid-phase microextraction and gas chromatography–mass spectrometry, in raw and roasted almond cultivars (regional cvs. Amendoão, Bonita, Casanova, Molar and Pegarinhos and foreign cvs. Fe ...
... In the study, the samples of goat milk, feed, soil and drinking water were firstly collected from nine farms of three provinces in China, the stable isotopic ratios (δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ²H and δ¹⁸O) in casein, lipid of milk, feed, and drinking water and the contents of 11 elements in milk and soil were determined. Statistical analysis indicated that except the content of Zn, other variables in milk showe ...
Musa acuminata; automation; bananas; cameras; color; diodes; discriminant analysis; image analysis; prediction; quality control; ripening; total soluble solids; wavelengths
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... This study investigates the potential of laser light backscattering imaging (LLBI) for predicting and classifying Musa Acuminata cv. Berangan at different ripening stages. Backscattering images of Berangan bananas at various ripening stages from 2 to 7 were acquired by a charge coupled device (CCD) camera coupled with a laser diode emitting light at a wavelength of 658 nm. The grey level intensity ...
... The objective of this study was to verify the direct and indirect correlation between morphometric measures, ratios, body weight and yield in two lambari species Astyanax lacustris and Astyanax fasciatus and whether the discriminant analysis is capable of separating and allocating the species. We used 102 lambari yellow tail and 60 lambari red tail. The fish were weighed and submitted to the evalu ...
... Pteridium aquilinum subsp. pinetorum is one of two morphologically distinct taxa of the genus Pteridium identified in Poland. In order to confirm their distinctively recognizable morphology, nine features defining each of these taxa were subjected to a morphometric analysis. These features, including taxonomic characters of vegetative structures, were measured or counted for their most comprehensi ...
barium; calcium; case studies; cluster analysis; color; data collection; discriminant analysis; iron; magnetism; manganese; marine environment; multivariate analysis; principal component analysis; sand; scanners; scanning electron microscopy
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... The validity and usefulness of multivariate statistical tools for the facies characterization in deep-marine environments have been applied on the geochemical, sedimentological and magnetic data from a piston core extracted from the Transitional Zone in the Galician Continental Margin. The combination of geochemical profiles of Fe, Mn, Ti, Ba and Ca and magnetic susceptibility (MS) obtained using ...
Odontesthes argentinensis; analysis of variance; coasts; discriminant analysis; fish; fish communities; geometry; habitats; morphometry; ontogeny; otoliths; sexual maturity; Atlantic Ocean
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... The study of otolith morphometry is a tool widely used in numerous studies of fish populations (fish stocks, taxonomic, ecological, ontogeny, among others). The aim of this study was to detect ontogenetic variations in the otolith of Odontesthes argentinensis through the application of traditional and geometric morphometry and the association of these variations with ecological and trophic habits ...
Julia Debik; Leslie R. Euceda; Steinar Lundgren; Hedda von der Lippe Gythfeldt; Øystein Garred; Elin Borgen; Olav Engebraaten; Tone F. Bathen; Guro F. Giskeødegård
biopsy; blood serum; breast neoplasms; discriminant analysis; drug therapy; least squares; lipids; metabolites; metabolomics; monitoring; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; patients; prediction; prognosis; proteome
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... Patients with locally advanced breast cancer have a worse prognosis compared to patients with localized tumors and require neoadjuvant treatment before surgery. The aim of this study was to characterize the systemic metabolic effect of neoadjuvant chemotherapy in patients with large primary breast cancers and to relate these changes to treatment response and long-term survival. This study included ...
... Around 1% of waste cooking oil (WCO) is currently recycled to make biodiesel in Brazil, mainly because used oils can acquire physicochemical characteristics that render them unsuitable as raw materials. To make biofuel production from waste oils and fats more efficient and economically feasible, it is important to develop simple, rapid, and low-cost methods for testing the quality of WCOs. With th ...
Salmo salar; aquaculture; carbon; commercialization; data collection; discriminant analysis; farmed fish; fatty acids; fish fillets; markets; mass spectrometry; multivariate analysis; oxidation; principal component analysis; provenance; salmon; seafood consumption; seafoods; Canada; Chile; Norway
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... The constant increase in seafood consumption worldwide has led to a parallel growth of the incidence of products obtained by aquaculture on the market, but also of the fraudulent commercialization of farmed products as wild-type ones. A careful characterization of the lipid component of seafood products based on chromatography-mass spectrometry techniques has been reported as a promising approach ...
... Quantitative assessment of sediment yield and sources is of great importance for future soil and water conservation and watershed management in erosion-prone areas. This study investigated sediment yield and sources by using a simple fingerprinting method in a dam-controlled watershed on the northern Loess Plateau. The sampling sediment profile exhibited 24 flood couplets corresponding to rainfall ...
... Data of 2000–2011 on phytoplankton of 12 large subarctic rivers, their hydrochemical, hydrological, and morphometric parameters and the climatic characteristics of their drainage basins have been analyzed with the use of step-wise discriminant analysis and clusterization of observations to establish that the formation of phytoplankton spatial structure in rivers in the northeastern Siberia is gove ...
discriminant analysis; dissolved organic matter; dissolved oxygen; hydroxyl radicals; hydroxylation; models; personal care products; photolysis; radiolysis; singlet oxygen; solar radiation
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... Pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs) are a group of emerging contaminants that have frequently been detected in aqueous environments. Phototransformation driven by solar irradiation is one of the most important natural processes for the elimination of PPCPs. In this study, primidone (PMD) was chosen as a model “photorefractory” compound. A series of experiments were conducted to asses ...
... The work studies the effect of season, montanera length, and sampling location on the Iberian pig fat, using compositional data (CoDa) analysis and standard statistics. CoDa variation array and logratios involving C18:3: (C18:3/C17:1), (C18:3/C20:0), and (C18:3/18:0) as well as the ilr balances (coordinates), based on C18:3, C17:1, and C20:0, showed the highest variances. Discriminant Analysis (DA ...
... This study evaluates and improves the cirrus detection of the middle and low peak Weighting Function (WF) Cloud Emission and Scattering Index (CESI) by using the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) cloud mask product. Results show that CESI-3 (peak WF about 890 hPa) accurately detect cirrus with the Probability of detection (POD) value reaching 0.69 during both at day and nighttimes. ...
ammonia; biochemical oxygen demand; chemical oxygen demand; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis; electrical conductivity; factor analysis; land use; monitoring; nitrates; nitrites; phosphates; principal component analysis; river water; rivers; sewage; total nitrogen; total phosphorus; total suspended solids; waste disposal; water quality; Ethiopia
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... Indiscriminant waste disposal is limiting the usability of the Little Akaki River in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Besides, there are inadequate comprehensive studies on the river principally due to insufficient research fund. Therefore, in this study, water quality investigation that is both regular and economical is sought. In October and November 2015, twenty-seven locations were sampled from the rive ...
Camellia sinensis; alleles; beverages; cultivars; discriminant analysis; gene banks; genetic variation; germplasm; microsatellite repeats; new variety; plant breeding; population structure; tea; variance; South America; South Korea
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... Tea (Camellia sinensis (L.) O. Kuntze) is cultivated in many developing Asian, African, and South American countries, and is the most widely consumed beverage in the world. It is of critical importance to understand the genetic diversity and population structure of tea germplasm for effective collection, conservation, and utilization. In this study, 410 tea accessions collected from South Korea we ...
... Early warning of detrimental weather and climate (particularly drought) on forage production would allow for tactical decision-making for the management of pastures, supplemental feed/forage resources, and livestock. The standardized precipitation and evaporation index (SPEI) has been shown to be correlated with production of various cereal and vegetable crops, and with above-ground tree mass. Its ...
... Disease detection and control is one of the main objectives of vineyard research in France. Manual monitoring of diseases is a time consuming operation especially when fields are large. Current research studies aim to develop automatic in-field systems to detect diseases. This study investigated the optimal spectral bands for the design of a dedicated high-resolution multispectral camera embedded ...
... A novel strategy combining elemental analysis-isotopic ratio mass spectrometry (EA-IRMS) and inductively plasma coupled mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) analysis with chemometric data-processing was applied to differentiate polished rice from different growing regions in China with rice imported from Southeast Asia (Thailand and Malaysia). Seven stable isotope ratios (i.e. δ¹³C, δ¹⁵N, δ²H, δ¹⁸O, ⁸⁷/⁸⁶Sr ...
... Pinot blanc is found in all wine regions of Austria. However, it plays an economically subordinate role compared to the most important white grape variety, Grüner Veltliner. The concept of wine typicity and terroir is that the geographical origin and oenological practices, along with the grape variety, make an important contribution to the final expression of the finished wine. The purpose of this ...
... In this work, stable isotope ratio (SIR) and rare earth elements (REEs) analyses, combined with multivariate data elaboration, were used to explore the possibility to authenticate European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax L.) according to: i) production method (wild or farmed specimens); ii) geographical origin (Western, Central or Eastern Mediterranean Sea). The dataset under investigation included ...
adulterated products; chemometrics; cost effectiveness; discriminant analysis; electronic tongue; grape must; grapes; least squares; near-infrared spectroscopy; principal component analysis; sensory properties; small fruits; spectrometers; sugar content; water uptake; wine quality; winemaking; wines
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... Tokaj wines (Hungaricum) are botrytized wines acknowledged for the unique organoleptic properties bestowed by botrytized grape berries during production. Excluding these berries during wine production or manipulating the sugar content of low‐grade wines to imitate high‐grade wines are some recent suspicious activities that threaten the wine quality. Advanced methods such as spectroscopy and sensor ...
Actaea racemosa; amides; chemometrics; coumaric acids; data collection; dietary supplements; discriminant analysis; drug formulations; esters; least squares; models; monitoring; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... Ester and amide derivatives of hydroxycinnamic acids are found in black cohosh (Actaea racemosa) and other Actaea plants. These two compound groups were evaluated for authentication of black cohosh dietary supplements. The hydroxycinnamic acid esters (HCAE) were profiled by ultra-performance liquid chromatography-photodiode array detection (UPLC-PDA). The hydroxycinnamic acid amides (HCAA) were ac ...
... We determined fatty acid profile and protein carbon and nitrogen isotopic composition in muscle of wild and farmed eels, in order to discriminate the geographical origin of fish and their dietary habits. The samples were divided into groups according to the farm origin (Italy, Denmark and Netherland), the market size (capitoni and buratelli) and the farming system (pond, RAS, lagoon and wild). Bio ...
abdomen; agricultural products; automation; digestive tract; discriminant analysis; equipment; ergonomics; fish industry; image analysis; imports; issues and policy; labor force; markets; sand; shrimp; support vector machines; United States
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... The “Vein” in a shrimp is its digestive tract filled with grit, sand, and sediments stretching along the back of the abdomen. In most shrimp market forms, presence of vein is highly restricted and limited according to the U.S. standard for imports. This research aims to develop an image‐based approach for detection of improperly deveined shrimps. Two hundred shrimp images were subjected to a seque ...
... An altitude-based background correction strategy was developed for use in the application of pattern recognition methods to the classification of gamma-ray spectra collected during airborne surveys. Application of this methodology helped to suppress the background spectral variation that serves to obscure the photopeaks associated with low levels of gamma-ray emission. The correction method was im ...
... Bacterial communities inhabiting sediments in coastal areas endure the effect of strong anthropogenic pressure characterized by the presence of multiple contaminants. Understanding the effect of pollutants on the organization of bacterial communities is of paramount importance in order to unravel bacterial assemblages colonizing specific ecological niches. Here, chemical and molecular approaches w ...
Western diets; antibiotics; body composition; discriminant analysis; eating habits; experimental diets; glucose; high fat diet; humans; intestinal microorganisms; metabolic diseases; metabolism; mice; microbiome; obesity; phenotype; species diversity
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... The Western dietary pattern can alter the gut microbiome and cause obesity and metabolic disorders. To examine the interactions between diet, the microbiome, and obesity, we transplanted gut microbiota from lean or obese human donors into mice fed one of three diets for 22 weeks: (1) a control AIN93G diet; (2) the total Western diet (TWD), which mimics the American diet; or (3) a 45% high-fat diet ...
... Allen's (Selasphorus sasin) and Rufous (S. rufus) hummingbird have long been suspected to hybridize, and potentially form a hybrid zone where their ranges overlap in southern Oregon. Migratory Allen's Hummingbird (S. s. sasin) breeds along a narrow strip of the California coast up to the Oregon border, while Rufous Hummingbird breeds from southern Oregon to Alaska. Analysis of behavioral and morph ...
Rhinolophus; acoustics; animals; discriminant analysis; echolocation; experimental design; foraging; social behavior; social structure
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... Acoustic signals are important to the biology of animals, mediating crucial activities such as social interactions (communication) as well as orientation and foraging (echolocation). Many signals used in communication are vocal, which are especially important in nocturnal animals such as bats where social interactions occur in darkness. Despite this, little is known about the social calls and beha ...
biogenic amines; chromatography; cluster analysis; derivatization; discriminant analysis; fluorescence; principal component analysis; red wines; storage temperature; storage time; wine aging
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... The determination and quantification of eight biogenic amines in red wines without sample clean-up has been carried out by an ultra-high performance chromatographic method with fluorescent detection based on the o-phthaldialdehyde derivatization reaction. In these conditions, several monovarietal ‘Tempranillo’ wines (young, oak and aged ones) have been analyzed and the total concentrations of biog ...
... This study aimed to characterize the bacterial communities in rearing water treated with commercial plastic biological ball filters named as Bio‐ball in marron culture for 60 days. Inclusion of Bio‐ball in the aquaculture tanks showed improvement in water quality parameters and enrichment of bacterial communities in terms of operational taxonomic units. The water treated with Bio‐ball showed signi ...
... We present a Descriptive Analysis (DA) of a large representative sample (24 whiskeys) of two legally distinct types of American whiskeys: bourbon and rye whiskey (respectively distilled from a fermented “mashbill” of at least 51% corn or rye). We wanted to determine whether a trained panel could find sensory differences between these two products. We used standard DA: 11 judges were trained for 10 ...
DNA; Methylobacterium; Staphylococcus aureus; Streptococcus uberis; bacteria; cattle; dairy herds; data collection; discriminant analysis; genes; high-throughput nucleotide sequencing; microbiome; milk; pathogens; polymerase chain reaction; ribosomal RNA; species richness; veterinary medicine
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... The aim of this study was to analyze bacterial profiles of bovine mastitic milk samples and samples from healthy quarters using Next Generation Sequencing of amplicons from 16S rRNA genes and to compare results with microbiological results by PCR assays of the same samples. A total of 49 samples were collected from one single dairy herd during the same day. The samples were divided in two sample s ...
Eriocheir sinensis; basins; cluster analysis; crabs; discriminant analysis; principal component analysis; progeny; rivers; Yangtze River
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... Although morphology is always used to distinguish wild Chinese mitten crab (Eriocheir sinensis) populations, whether morphology could be used to identify the pond-reared offspring of wild E. sinensis populations has remained unclear. This study was undertaken to examine the morphological difference of wild E. sinensis (G0) from the Yangtze River (YR), Huang River (HR) and Liao River (LR) as well a ...
... Upland cotton makes an important contribution to natural fiber production worldwide. Given the necessity to high quality fiber required in the textile industry, the genomic variation of diverse accessions and the loci underpinning fiber quality should be extensively investigated. Here, a panel of 196 upland cottons and 41,815 single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) markers were examined for detection ...
cameras; carbon quantum dots; chemometrics; cluster analysis; color; colorimetry; discriminant analysis; heavy metals; metal ions; principal component analysis
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... Herein, a colorimetric sensor array has been introduced which uses carbon dots (CDs) to distinguish between different water samples. The basis of the method is that CDs interact differently with heavy metal ions in the presence of different water samples. The color change resulting from this interaction is recorded by a digital camera, and RGB values are analyzed by unsupervised and supervised che ...
... This investigation determined the carcass yields of Namibian springbok and compared the physicochemical meat quality characteristics of 6 different muscles (biceps femoris, infraspinatus, Longissimus thoracis et lumborum, semimembranosus, semitendinosus, and supraspinatus) from different sex and age groups. Although the adult male slaughter weights (40.44 ± 1.88 kg) did not differ from that of the ...
... Red meat consumption can promote atherosclerosis since the gut microbiota can metabolize L-carnitine from meat into trimethylamine N-oxide (TMAO) which is a causative risk for cardiovascular disease. Garlic has long been associated with health benefits. Allicin is a major bioactive compound typically found in blend fresh garlic. It possesses the antibacterial, anti-oxidant, and cholesterol-lowerin ...
data collection; diffusivity; discriminant analysis; fasting; human nutrition; hunger; hypothalamus; image analysis; magnetic resonance imaging; mice; rats
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... We design, implement and validate a novel image processing strategy to obtain in vivo maps of hunger stimulation in the brain of mice, rats and humans, combining Diffusion Weighted Magnetic Resonance Imaging (DWI) datasets from fed and fasted subjects. Hunger maps were obtained from axial/coronal (rodents/humans) brain sections containing the hypothalamus and coplanar cortico-limbic structures usi ...
Ananas comosus; byproducts; discriminant analysis; fruit maturity; high performance liquid chromatography; metabolites; multivariate analysis; physicochemical properties; pineapple juice; pineapples; principal component analysis; pulp
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... Large quantities of by-products, such as peels and trimmings, emerge during industrial pineapple (Ananas comosus [L.] Merr.) processing. The latter are further exploited by juice extraction. However, the low-quality juices obtained may be marketed as genuine pineapple juice from pulp or be admixed to the latter, thus adulterating the final product. To identify chemical markers, juice was extracted ...
... This work characterises and distinguishes Italian and Asian goji berries, combining three analytical approaches to determine 5 light stable isotope ratios, 57 mineral elements and 14 carotenoids.The study analyses stable isotope ratios and provides full HPLC-DAD-MS characterisation of the carotenoid fraction in goji berries for the first time. The isotopic composition of Italian berries was charac ...
... In this work, we evaluated the possibility of predicting the geographic origin of Uruguayan honeys using discriminant analysis (DA) on mineral concentration. Although the DA results appeared to discriminate between honeys from the south, central and north, the subsequent cross-validation analysis did not confirm this result. We also compared honeys from Uruguay and the Buenos Aires province (Argen ...
B horizons; Fragiudalfs; brittleness; clay; discriminant analysis; fragipans; iron oxides; kaolinite; land use; pH; porosity; rivers; roots; weathering; Italy
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... A Fragipan (Bx) is a soil horizon hard when dry and brittle when moist, that undergoes slaking upon water immersion, forming a barrier to roots and limiting land use. Brittleness and slaking depend on soil porosity and particle arrangement, but still no agreement exists on the inorganic components responsible for such arrangement. We hypothesized that the same kind of particle arrangement may orig ...
... In the contaminated coastal sediments, variations of microbial community can reflect the impact of anthropogenic activities. The identification, evaluation and monitoring of the potential bio-indicator species and biomarker communities are vital for the ecological studies in sedimentary environments. Based on the high-throughput sequencing, the microbial communities were characterized in the sedim ...
DNA barcoding; discriminant analysis; genes; marine fish; marine science; morphometry; nucleotide sequences; otoliths; phylogeny; species diversity; Persian Gulf
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... Previous studies have documented that some otolith features are genetically encoded and may have phylogenetic signals. However, few studies have applied molecular data to examine otolith morphology patterns with a phylogenetic view. To advance our knowledge on this issue, we examined a combination of data including otolith morphology, morphometry, shape indices and data of mtDNA sequences (COI gen ...
creatinine; discriminant analysis; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; glutamine; lactic acid; least squares; lipids; lysine; metabolites; neural stem cells; neurodegenerative diseases; rats
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... It is necessary to characterize and classify neural stem cells (NSCs) and differentiated cells (DCs) for potential use of NSC to treat neurodegenerative diseases. We therefore performed an analysis of NSCs and DCs using gas chromatography mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and direct infusion mass spectrometry (DI-MS) with elaborate multivariate statistical analysis for the characterization and classificat ...
chemometrics; discriminant analysis; principal component analysis; provenance; white wines
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... A highly informative chemometric approach using elemental data to distinguish and classify wine samples according to different criteria was successfully developed. The robust chemometric methods, such fuzzy principal component analysis (FPCA), FPCA combined with linear discriminant analysis (LDA), namely FPCA-LDA and mainly fuzzy divisive hierarchical associative-clustering (FDHAC), including also ...
data collection; discriminant analysis; least squares; liquid chromatography; models; nutritive value; polyketides; pork; raw meat; rump; sphingolipids; sterols; swine; tandem mass spectrometry; China
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... A lipidomics study using liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry and multivariate statistics was conducted in this work to discriminate raw pork meat. A total of 1180 lipid species were identified in the studied pork samples. Four, three and eight lipids were determined as potential discriminatory markers for the five cuts (shoulder, rump, loin, shank and belly) of Tibetan, Jilin and Sanmen ...
atomic absorption spectrometry; chemical analysis; chemical elements; chemometrics; chicken eggs; crossbreds; discriminant analysis; egg albumen; egg yolk; eggs; least squares; liquid chromatography; nutritive value; polyketides; retail marketing; sphingolipids; sterols; tandem mass spectrometry; China
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... The present study focuses on the differentiation of Deqingyuan (n = 90), Taihe (n = 90) and crossbred (n = 90) black-boned silky fowl eggs based on chemometrics analysis of multi-element and lipidomics data. A total of 53 chemical elements were simultaneously quantified in the eggs using inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry. Multivariate statistical analysis of element data screened 30, 13 ...
... The proliferation of illegal landfills (IL) has a negative impact, especially for ecologically sensitive areas or those attractive for tourists. This research focuses on the drivers of the IL spatial distribution in archipelagic environments for mapping the IL potential occurrence. 286 and 153 illegal landfills localizations were identified through fieldwork in the islands of Gran Canaria (GC) and ...
Raman spectroscopy; X-radiation; X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy; discriminant analysis; elemental composition; equipment; fluorescence; least squares; metals; paper; pigments; principal component analysis; spectral analysis; Brazil
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... As technology advances, counterfeiters improve their techniques reproducing banknotes with more accuracy. Spectroscopic techniques may be applied for characterization of these forgeries. The aim of this study was to develop a methodology for banknotes characterization employing portable X-ray fluorescence (pXRF) and portable Raman spectroscopy (RS) equipment for measurements in genuine and counter ...
carbon; chemometrics; data analysis; discriminant analysis; mass spectrometry; nitrogen; oxygen; provenance; stable isotopes; support vector machines; Brazil
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... Authentication of ground coffee has become an important issue because of fraudulent activities in the sector. In the current work, sixty-seven Brazilian coffees produced in different geographical origins using organic (ORG, n = 25) and conventional (CONV, n = 42) systems were analyzed for their stable isotope ratios (δ13C, δ18O, δ2H, and δ15N). Data were analyzed by inferential analysis to compare ...
Hypsizygus; Pleurotus ostreatus; benzaldehyde; benzyl alcohol; chemometrics; data collection; discriminant analysis; farms; food industry; gas chromatography; mass spectrometry; metabolites; mushrooms; octenol; principal component analysis; quality control; solid phase microextraction; volatile compounds
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... The classification of six mushroom species (white beech, brown beech, button, oyster, king oyster, and enoki mushrooms) was successfully achieved using canonical discriminant analysis (CDA) on volatile metabolite data sets obtained by headspace‐solid‐phase microextraction gas chromatography (HS‐SPME‐GC). Twenty‐seven major volatile compounds in six edible mushrooms were positively identified by HS ...
Crithmum maritimum; air drying; aldehydes; discriminant analysis; electronic nose; freeze drying; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; headspace analysis; ketones; markets; monitoring; shelf life; spices; terpenoids; volatile organic compounds; water activity
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... Processed samples (air-dried @ 40 and @ 60 °C and freeze-dried) of sea fennel (Crithmum maritimum L.), an autochthonous spice with interesting market potential, were analyzed by headspace gas-chromatography/mass spectrometry and classification capabilities of an electronic nose in discriminating between samples with stepwise forward statistics were evaluated as well. Freeze-drying process was the ...
DNA; Pseudomonas; Staphylococcus; bacteria; bioinformatics; community structure; computer software; discriminant analysis; dog diseases; dogs; ears; genes; otitis externa; ribosomal RNA; species diversity; veterinary medicine
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... BACKGROUND: Otitis externa is a common multifactorial disease in dogs. The diversity of the cutaneous microbiota in dogs appears to decrease in diseased states. However, little is known about the microbiota of the canine ear and how it is altered by disease. HYPOTHESIS/OBJECTIVES: To describe the otic bacterial microbiota in dogs with otitis externa compared to healthy dogs. ANIMALS: Samples were ...
antioxidants; chemical composition; discriminant analysis; flavor; least squares; metabolomics; models; secondary metabolites; taste; tea; China; Japan; Korean Peninsula
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... Non-fermented teas, which are widely consumed in China, Japan, Korea, and elsewhere, have refreshing flavors and valuable health benefits. Various types of non-fermented teas look and taste similar and have no obvious differences in appearance, making their classification challenging. To date, there are very few reports about characterization and discrimination of different types of non-fermented ...
... Accomplishing the Italian law to verify honey quality is onerous, because it requires measuring many chemical and physical parameters. On the contrary, bioluminescence-based analytical methods allow for rapid and inexpensive analysis. Bioluminescence has never been applied before to verify honey adulteration. The application of chemometrics to analytical methods based on bioluminescence has been h ...
... The feasibility of combining elemental fingerprints and chemical pattern recognition methods for authentication of the geographical origins of a Chinese herb, Gastrodia elata BI. (GE), was studied in this paper. A total of 210 GE samples were collected from 7 different producing areas. The levels of 15 mineral elements in GE, including Zn, Cd, Co, Cr, Cu, Ca, Mg, Mn, Mo, Ni, Pb, Sr, Fe, Na, and K, ...
Coffea arabica; adulterated products; antioxidant activity; botanical composition; caffeic acid; chemometrics; coffee products; discriminant analysis; flavonoids; food chain; high performance liquid chromatography; least squares; lipid peroxidation; organic foods; pH; principal component analysis; quality control; support vector machines; total soluble solids; Brazil
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... In this work, different chemometric tools were compared to classify n = 26 conventional (CONV) and n = 19 organic (ORG) coffees from the main Brazilian producing regions based on the chemical composition, physicochemical properties, and antioxidant activity. Principal component analysis separated ORG and CONV coffees but the distinction among the producing regions of Brazilian coffee was not possi ...
adulterated products; chemometrics; cooking fats and oils; corn oil; discriminant analysis; fatty acid composition; gas chromatography; least squares; principal component analysis; rapeseed; sesame oil; sesame seed; soybeans; sunflower oil; vegetable oil; vegetables
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... The detection of adulteration of sesame oil with four vegetable oils was investigated by measuring fatty acid composition. Adulteration based fatty acid composition was evaluated with 73 sesame seed samples, 57 rapeseed seed samples, 103 soybean seed samples, 11 brands of sunflower oil and 14 brands of maize oil. Discriminate analysis and principal component analysis were used to study the data di ...