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absorption; alcohols; cluster analysis; data collection; discriminant analysis; fluorescence; food safety; fructose; glucose; pH; principal component analysis; titratable acidity; wines
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... Authentication of wine can be considered at different scales, with classification according to country, province/state, or appellation/wine producing region. An absorbance-transmission and excitation-emission matrix (A-TEEM) technique was applied for the first time to examine intraregional differences, using Shiraz wines (n = 186) produced during three vintages from five subregions of Barossa Vall ...
... A potential tool for authenticating Tibetan pork based on species and geographical origins was investigated by isotopic and multi-elemental fingerprints to compare Tibetan pork and plain pork from various regions in China. In this study, carbon, nitrogen, hydrogen and oxygen isotope compositions and concentrations of 50 elements of a total of 93 pork samples (Tibetan pork from Tibet and Sichuan, J ...
catalysts; discriminant analysis; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; food chemistry; phospholipase A1; phospholipids; tandem mass spectrometry; transesterification; water content
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... Lipase-catalyzed transesterification of structured phospholipids (sPLs) is a hot topic, but the structural variation of the fatty acyl chains in intact phospholipids at the molecular level remains unclear to date. The present study explored the detailed characteristics of synthesized phospholipids through high-performance liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC–MS/MS) in precursor ion ...
... Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) and near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy were combined to enhance discrimination of soybean paste samples according to geographical origin. Since element and organic component compositions of soybean pastes depend on soybean cultivation areas and fermentation conditions, utilization of two complementary spectroscopic signatures would be synergetic for the di ...
chemometrics; decision support systems; discriminant analysis; flavonoids; food safety; grapes; tandem mass spectrometry; ultra-performance liquid chromatography; white wines
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... The use of metabolic fingerprinting combined with advanced chemometric tools for wine authentication has increased in recent years. Although numerous studies, showing different authentication strategies, have been published, rarely any attention has been paid to the stability of used classification models over a longer time period. Here, we present a reliable and robust metabolic fingerprinting-ba ...
... Omics study exemplified by proteomics, lipidomics or metabolomics, provides the opportunity to get insight of the molecular modifications occurring in living organisms in response to contaminants or in different physiological conditions. However, individual omics discloses only a single layer of information leading to a partial image of the biological complexity. Multiplication of samples preparat ...
... Chilled chicken has become the mainstream of chicken consumption. In order to explore the effect of post-mortem aging on water-soluble flavor precursors of chicken, pH, adenosine triphosphate (ATP) degradation, flavor nucleosides, free amino acids and water-soluble low molecular weight peptides were determined using Qingyuan partridge yellow-feathered broilers as material during 0–4 °C post-mortem ...
... Consumers' interest in organic foods is increasing, and robust analytical tools are necessary to authenticate them. This study investigated the potential of Energy-Dispersive X-Ray Fluorescence (EDXRF) under two measurement conditions combined with chemometric tools to classify tomato and sweet pepper samples according to the agronomic production mode and geographical area cultivation. Initially, ...
breast meat; breasts; discriminant analysis; food safety; muscles; nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy; pale soft exudative meat; pectoralis muscle; spectrophotometers; support vector machines; ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy; wooden breast
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... The potential of using simple visible spectroscopy (VIS) and low-field nuclear magnetic resonance (LF-NMR) was evaluated for differentiating three muscle conditions, normal (NORM), pale, soft and exudative (PSE), and woody breast (WB), in broiler pectoralis major. A total of 162 of pectoralis major, 54 for each condition, were collected from a commercial plant. Meat VIS spectra and transverse rela ...
... Dried blood spot (DBS) metabolomics has numerous applications in newborn health screening, exposomics, and biomonitoring of environmental chemicals in pregnant women and the elderly. However, accurate metabolite quantification is hindered by several challenges: notably the “hematocrit effect” and unknown blood-spotting volumes. Different techniques have been employed to overcome these issues but t ...
algorithms; data analysis; data collection; discriminant analysis; prediction
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... Linear discriminant analysis (LDA) is a well-known method for multiclass classification and dimensionality reduction. However, in general, ordinary LDA does not achieve high prediction accuracy when observations in some classes are difficult to be classified. A novel cluster-based LDA method is proposed that significantly improves prediction accuracy. Hierarchical clustering is adopted, and the di ...
... Accurate identification of various liquors from the same brand is of great significance for safeguarding the rights and interests of consumers and the market economy. Here, the spectral properties of liquors were studied based on ultraviolet (UV), near-infrared (NIR) and multi-way fluorescence spectroscopy. Then these liquors were distinguished by integrating their spectral properties with the che ...
discriminant analysis; food safety; grapes; liquid chromatography; mass spectrometry; models; multivariate analysis; prediction; product authenticity; spectrometers; white wines
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... Instrument comparability is a major prerequisite for the harmonization of non-targeted analytical approaches for food authentication. While non-targeted liquid chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (LC-MS) is a powerful and widely used technique in authenticity studies, inter-laboratory or instrument comparison exercises are rare. For the first time, in the present study a comparison of tw ...
... Absorbance-transmission and fluorescence excitation-emission matrix (A-TEEM) spectroscopy was investigated as a rapid method for predicting maturity indices using Cabernet Sauvignon grapes produced under four viticulture treatments during two growing seasons. Machine learning models were developed with fused spectral data to predict 3-isobutyl-2-methoxypyrazine (IBMP), pH, total tannins (Tannin), ...
... Flesh content of pomelos sometimes does not match the price due to thick peel, which reduces their commercial value and consumer satisfaction. This study demonstrated the potential use of X-ray imaging method for non-destructive evaluation of the edible rate and the flesh content of ‘Hongrou’ pomelos and ‘Guanxi’ pomelos. An adaptive threshold segmentation method was used to segment the X-ray imag ...
... Varieties of a single crop type may vary in several attributes affecting the choice at different spots of the food supply chain. This paper demonstrates a rapid classification of ten tef [Eragrostis tef (Zucc.) Trotter] grain varieties based on image processing and multivariate data analysis. Extreme Gradient Boosted Tree Discriminant Analysis (EGBDA) was applied for the variety-based classificati ...
crop yield; discriminant analysis; sugarcane; technology; weather; India
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... Discriminant function analysis has been used for forecasting of Sugarcane yield of Coimbatore district in Tamilnadu. Crop yield has been classified into two and three groups. Using this crop yield and monthly data on weather variables,discriminant function analysis has been carried out. The scores calculated from function this along with the trend have used as regressors in developing yield foreca ...
... To discriminate among three poultry meat types (hybrid broiler, hybrid broiler affected by breast myopathies, and slow-growing native breed), and to predict the proximate and the amino acid (AA) composition of breast meat, two NIRs (Near-Infrared) instruments operating between 850 and 2500 nm coupled with chemometric algorithms and Machine Learning (ML) approaches, were tested. The Partial Least S ...
... The main purpose of this study was to investigate the improvement effect of Mesona chinensis Benth polysaccharide (MP) on cyclophosphamide (CTX) induced liver injury in mice. To explore metabolic profile of liver tissue and feces among normal group, CTX-induced group and MP management group based on metabolomics method by using UPLC-Q-TOF/MS. The results showed that MP could alleviate liver injury ...
Helianthus annuus; anchovies; chemometrics; discriminant analysis; docosahexaenoic acid; eicosapentaenoic acid; fish oils; food chemistry; gas chromatography; linseed oil; off odors; oxidation; vegetables
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... Fish oil develops particular off-odors, mainly fishy odor, from the oxidation of its characteristic fatty acids, docosahexaenoic (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic (EPA). Anchovy oil (AO) was taken as representative of fish oils. This was compared to three vegetable oils with different fatty acid compositions, i.e. camellia, sunflower and linseed oil, and differential volatile compounds were identified by ...
... Intensive systems of raising chickens in barns prevail worldwide for financial reasons. In contrast, free-range chickens are raised in better welfare conditions, and preferred by consumers due to their distinctive taste/flavor, having higher market prices. Thus, free-range chickens have been the target of frauds. In this study, ¹H NMR metabolic profiles of breasts of free-range and barn-raised bro ...
... Renal stones are a common urological disease with high prevalence and recurrence rates. Characterizing gut microbiome profiles of first‐onset renal calculi patients, both before and after surgery, may provide valuable insights and identify potential biomarkers for the disease. In this study, we explored the associations between the gut microbiome and renal stone formation using 16S ribosomal RNA ( ...
... Detection of the early stages of stress is crucial in stabilizing crop yields and agricultural production. The aim of this study was to construct a nondestructive and robust method to predict the early physiological drought status of the tomato (Solanum lycopersicum); for this purpose, a convolutional neural network (CNN)-based model with a one-dimensional (1D) kernel for fitting the visible and n ...
... Electrical activity in plants undergoes potential changes in interpreting the plant's physiological state. These electrical signals show arbitrary and probabilistic dynamics in which stress can be detected and analysed in the early stages of symptom appearance in plants. Evaluation of uncertainty in plant signals by signal strength enhancement is stress-specific. In this paper, we considered physi ...
... To explore the impact of the Maillard reaction on fried pepper sauce (FPS) flavor and safety quality, acrylamide and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were measured in FPS. Acrylamide was detected in 10 Maillard treated groups and a total of 110 VOCs were identified, mainly aldehydes, ketones, alcohols, acids, etc., but the content of each group differed. Partial least squares discriminant analysi ...
Leonardo Beltrán-Rodríguez; Angélica Romero-Manzanares; Ma. Amparo Borja-de la Rosa; Juan Ignacio Valdez-Hernández; Mario Luna-Cavazos; José Blancas-Vázquez
... KEY MESSAGE: Anatomical traits and features of Amphipterygium adstringens wood and hydraulic properties, both linked to sex, explain the performance of the species in its ecological niche. Androic and gynoic dioecious species respond structurally and functionally to the environmental conditions where they live. How are adaptive advantages manifested by each sex, from the anatomical water transport ...
... In aquaculture, essential oils are considered promising supplements that can improve productive performance and modulate the fish's microbiota. Here we investigate how a blend of essential oils (carvacrol + thymol + cinnamaldehyde acid) affects the productive performance and the intestinal microbiota of juvenile Nile tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus, Thai strain). All fish were randomly distributed ...
Donielle Pannell; Brou Kouakou; Thomas H. Terrill; Ibukun M. Ogunade; Zaira M. Estrada-Reyes; Voris Bryant; Godstime Taiwo; Modoluwamu Idowu; Andres A. Pech-Cervantes
... We evaluated the effect of replacement of corn and soybean meal (SBM) with dried distillers grains with solubles (DDGS) in sericea lespedeza (SL; Lespedeza cuneata) and alfalfa (Medicago sativa)-based diets on ruminal fermentation and bacterial community of growing meat goats. Thirty-six male Spanish growing meat goats with an average body weight of 24 ± 1.8 kg were stratified by body weight and a ...
Jing Sheng Ng; Syahidah Akmal Muhammad; Chin Hong Yong; Ainolsyakira Mohd Rodhi; Baharudin Ibrahim; Mohd Noor Hidayat Adenan; Salmah Moosa; Zainon Othman; Nazaratul Ashifa Abdullah Salim; Zawiyah Sharif; Faridah Ismail; Simon D. Kelly; Andrew Cannavan
adulterated products; agar; birds; chemometrics; collagen; discriminant analysis; market prices; spectral analysis; spectrometers; spectroscopy; traditional medicine; Malaysia
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... Edible bird’s nests (EBNs) are vulnerable to adulteration due to their huge demand for traditional medicine and high market price. Presently, there are pressing needs to explore field-deployable rapid screening techniques to detect adulteration of EBNs. The objective of this study is to explore the feasibility of using a handheld near-infrared (VIS/SW-NIR) spectroscopic device for the determinatio ...
... The purpose of this study was to develop a hierarchical approach by combining similarity evaluation (SE), discriminant analysis (DA) and principal component analysis (PCA) to detect the adulteration of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau flaxseed oil using triacylglycerol (TAG) profiles with HPLC-ELSD. SE could effectively differentiate pure flaxseed oil from non-flaxseed oil when the adulteration concentration ...
adulterated products; chemometrics; cooking fats and oils; discriminant analysis; food chemistry; headspace analysis; prices; principal component analysis; sesame oil; spectroscopy; China; South East Asia
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... Sesame oil is a traditional and delicious edible oil in China and Southeast Asia with a high price. However, sesame oil essence was often illegally added to cheaper edible oils to counterfeit sesame oil. In this study, a rapid and accurate headspace gas chromatography-ion mobility spectrometry (HS-GC-IMS) method was proposed to detect the counterfeit sesame oil where the other cheap oils were adul ...
altitude; discriminant analysis; environmental management; flood control; inventories; land cover; land use; linear models; lithology; pollution; regression analysis; research; spatial data; streams; support vector machines; variance; Egypt; Red Sea
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... Floods are among the most devastating environmental hazards that directly and indirectly affect people’s lives and activities. In many countries, sustainable environmental management requires the assessment of floods and the likely flood-prone areas to avoid potential hazards. In this study, the performance and capabilities of seven machine learning algorithms (MLAs) for flood susceptibility mappi ...
... The role of oral microbiota in viral encephalitis and/or viral meningitis (VEVM) remains unclear. In this hospital-based, frequency-matched study, children with clinically diagnosed VEVM (n = 68) and those with other diseases (controls, n = 68) were recruited. Their oral swab samples were collected and the oral microbiota was profiled using 16S rRNA gene sequencing. The oral microbiota of children ...
João Lucas Della-Silva; Carlos Antonio da Silva Junior; Mendelson Lima; Ricardo da Silva Ribeiro; Luciano Shozo Shiratsuchi; Fernando Saragosa Rossi; Larissa Pereira Ribeiro Teodoro; Paulo Eduardo Teodoro
... Sampling trees in natural environment can be used in studies ranging from floristic composition and phytogeography to management and growth modelling, and accurate inventories are based on highly labor-intensive methods. Relying on hyperspectral approach, this study aimed to differentiate spectral libraries of four Amazon tree species. We first prepared the spectroradiometer data on representative ...
aspartic acid; cysteine; discriminant analysis; food composition; functional foods; high performance liquid chromatography; least squares; models; prediction; principal component analysis; tryptophan; Malaysia
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... Edible Bird’s Nest (EBN) is mainly used as a functional food where its quality is affected by many factors including geographical region. This study aims to differentiate the EBN from West Malaysia (WM) and East Malaysia (EM) based on amino acid profiles by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) combined with multivariate approach. A total of 33 authentic EBN samples were collected from WM ...
... Citrus tristeza virus (CTV) is the most severe viral disease for citrus production. Many strains of CTV have been characterized and their symptomology widely varies, ranging from mild or asymptomatic infections, to severe symptomology that results in substantial yield loss or host death. The capacity of the different CTV strains to affect the biochemistry of different citrus species has remained l ...
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Data from: Amino acid, sugar, phenolic, and terpenoid profiles are capable of distinguishing Citrus tristeza virus infection status in grapefruit, lemon, mandarin, and sweet orange leaves
Citrus; capillary zone electrophoresis; chemical species; chemometrics; cluster analysis; discriminant analysis; food composition; hesperidin; kaempferol; liquids; mass spectrometry; naringenin; naringin; pH; rutin; temperature
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... A rapid, efficient and simple method using capillary electrophoresis-electrospray ionization-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry (CE-ESI-Q-TOF-MS) was developed for the determination of the eight flavonoids (schaftoside, rutin, hesperidin, naringenin, naringin, violanthin, hesperitin and kaempferol) in 23 citrus samples. CE and ESI-Q-TOF conditions (e.g. nebulizer gas pressure, drying gas ...
... In this study, an untargeted metabolomics method based on LC-MS was used to investigate the differential metabolites of coix seed after fermentation by Monascus purpureus. The compounds with highly correlated variable importance in projection (VIP) values of orthogonal partial least squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) were selected as the important metabolites of coix seed samples. Coix seed w ...
... Leishmaniasis, transmitted to human by sand flies, is a neglected vector-borne diseases and has two clinical forms: cutaneous (CL) and visceral leishmaniasis (VL) in Turkey. Subgenus of Adlerius are known as probable vectors of both forms of leishmaniasis in Turkey. Examined three species belonging to Adlerius are difficult to distinguish morphologically and have similar taxonomic characters. The ...
... Vinegar is a very popular condiment with different species and aroma profiles. Eighty-three volatile odor compounds (VOCs) were identified from European vinegar using ultra-fast gas chromatographic electronic nose (UFGC E-nose), of which there were 61 VOCs with odor activity value (OAV) ≥ 1. Among the 61 VOCs, acetic acid, ethyl isovalerate, propionaldehyde, butanoic acid, ethyl cinnamate, and gua ...
Cricetidae; biodiversity; biogeography; climate; data collection; discriminant analysis; evolution; latitude; longitude; mice; phenotypic variation; primary productivity; rain; regression analysis; sexual dimorphism; skull; temperature; Andes region; Argentina
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... AIM: Mountains cover approximately 22% of the planet's terrestrial surface and have dramatic effects on climate and biodiversity. The rain shadow effect is a common feature on mountain ranges worldwide and its effects on ecology and evolution of species, particularly morphology, are incompletely known. Our aim is to identify the correlates that best describe morphological variation along a pronoun ...
Eupatorium; Lasioderma serricorne; Ocimum basilicum; Oriental traditional medicine; Tagetes minuta; Tribolium castaneum; air; discriminant analysis; fumigants; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; hydrodistillation; oils; precocenes; principal component analysis; secondary metabolites
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... Antagonistic storage potential of Tagetes minuta Linnaeus, Eupatorium fortunei Turcz. and Ocimum basilicum L. volatile oils hydrodistillated with main secondary metabolites against two storage pests, Tribolium castaneum and Lasioderma serricorne adults were evaluated. More than 95% volatile secondary metabolites obtained at different hydrodistillation time were identified by gas chromatography-mas ...
... HighlightsEight JIP-test parameters most relevant to tomato bacterial wilt were identified.A novel model was developed for detection of tomato bacterial wilt.The overall detection accuracy of the developed model was 88.42%.Abstract. Bacterial wilt seriously threatens global tomato yield. Timely and accurately identification of plants infected with bacterial wilt is crucial to the implementation of ...
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; adulterated products; chemometrics; cows; discriminant analysis; horses; least squares; mare milk; milk; models; reflectance
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... Expensive milk such as horse’s milk (HM) may be the target of adulteration by other milk such as goat’s milk (GM) and cow’s milk (CM). FTIR spectroscopy in combination with chemometrics of linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and multivariate calibrations of partial least square regression (PLSR) and principal component regression (PCR) was used for authentication of HM from GM and CM. Milk was dire ...
adulterated products; data collection; discriminant analysis; least squares; principal component analysis; qualitative analysis; spectral analysis; vegetable oil; vegetables
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... Due to the ever-increasing worldwide interest in the exploitation of waste vegetable oils, the development of analytical tools able to detect their adulteration with edible oils, is considered a priority for the scientific and industrial community. In this work, edible and waste vegetable oils have been analysed by Fourier Transform-InfraRed (FT-IR) and Ultraviolet-Visible (UV–VIS) spectroscopies ...
... The study objective was to investigate the potential for using visible near-infrared (Vis-NIR) and short wave infrared (SWIR) spectroscopy to segregate bison portions based on muscle types and storage periods. In the Vis-NIR range, the principal component analysis showed clear segregation of the muscles based on storage at retail display d 4 whereas the discrimination based on muscle type was bett ...
Héctor Aarón Lee-Rangel; German David Mendoza-Martinez; Lorena Diaz de León-Martínez; Alejandro Enrique Relling; Anayeli Vazquez-Valladolid; Monika Palacios-Martínez; Pedro Abel Hernández-García; Alfonso Juventino Chay-Canul; Rogelio Flores-Ramirez; José Alejandro Roque-Jiménez
... Electronic devices have been used to describe chemical compounds in the food industry. However, there are different models and manufacturers of these devices; thus, there has been little consistency in the type of compounds and methods used for identification. This work aimed to determine the applicability of electronic nose (e-nose) Cyroanose 320 to describe the differentiation of volatile organi ...
... The contents of selected metals (K, Ca, Fe, Cu, Zn, Mn, Sr, Rb, Ba, Pb, Ni, Cr and V) in 70 wine samples from Continental and Adriatic part of Croatia and different types of wine (red and white) were determined by TXRF. The aim of this study was to compare the elemental composition of wines from two different regions and to determine the discriminant ability of each variable and to indicate which ...
... Energy dispersive X-ray fluorescence spectrometry (ED-XRF) and near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS), two non-destructive and rapid techniques, were explored to classify the geographical origin of soybeans. Multivariate statistical methods, including principal component analysis (PCA), discriminant analysis (DA), and modified partial least squares (MPLS), were applied as a chemometric tool ...
aflatoxin B1; chemometrics; corn; discriminant analysis; hyperspectral imagery; image analysis; measurement; models; principal component analysis; support vector machines; wavelengths
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... Contamination of aflatoxins has important effect on the quality of corn seed. In this study, hyperspectral imaging technology was used to detect aflatoxin B1 (AFB1) with different concentrations (100, 50, 30, 20 and 10 μg/kg) on corn seeds. The near-infrared hyperspectral data, which were collected from the corn seed samples, were processed by image segmentation method. Then, the spectra in the ra ...
... Infrared spectroscopy has been shown to be efficient in cheese authentication due to the advantages of high sensitivity and speed of analysis, especially when associated with chemometrics. This review discusses approaches on the authenticity, the principles of near‐ and middle‐infrared techniques and the importance of chemometrics for cheese authentication. The spectroscopic techniques proved to b ...
... The traditional dry sausage is highly appreciated in China because of its unique quality characteristics, but it contains high salt content. Hence, this study aimed to evaluate the effects of lactic acid bacteria (LAB) comprising Lactobacillus sakei (LS), Lactobacillus curvatus (LC), Lactobacillus plantarum (LP), and Weissella hellenica (WH) on the quality attributes of the reduced-salt dry fermen ...
... Spectroscopy is a rapid, non-destructive, and low-cost analytical technique that has the potential to complement more resource-intensive analytical methods. We explored the use of spectral methods to differentiate maize genotypes and assess aflatoxin (AF) contamination in maize kernels. We compared the performance of two instruments: a research-grade ultraviolet-visible-near infrared (UV-Vis-NIR) ...
... To ensure that honey belongs to a very appreciated botanical class, the classical methodology is melissopalynology analysis to identify and count pollen grains. However, this method is time-consuming and laborious. In this work, four stable isotopes (δ¹³Cₕ, δ¹³Cₚ, δ¹⁸O and δ²H) and twelve elemental contents (Na, Mg, Ca, K, Fe, Cr, Mn, Co, Cu, Sr, Se, Mo) were used to build the dataset, and the Ran ...
Aleutian mink disease; Carnivore amdoparvovirus 1; Neovison vison; algorithms; capsid; counterimmunoelectrophoresis; data collection; decision support systems; discriminant analysis; enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay; farms; fur; genomics; industry; livestock; mink; models; Nova Scotia
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... American mink (Neogale vison) is one of the major sources of fur for the fur industries worldwide, whereas Aleutian disease (AD) is causing severe financial losses to the mink industry. A counterimmunoelectrophoresis (CIEP) method is commonly employed in a test-and-remove strategy and has been considered a gold standard for AD tests. Although machine learning is widely used in livestock species, l ...
data collection; discriminant analysis; land cover; models; research; rivers; streams; uncertainty; water
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... Traditional remote sensing methods are rarely applied to headwater streams because of a mismatch in spatial scale. With improved technology, remote sensing using unoccupied aerial vehicles enables imagery to be collected at high spatial and temporal resolution. However, these innovations have been used less frequently to detect changes within the water column. In addition, it is unclear whether cl ...
bamboos; botanical composition; catenas; discriminant analysis; forests; mosses and liverworts; pollen; principal component analysis; soil; uncertainty; China
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... This study investigated the pollen spectra from 46 pairs of soil and moss samples (pairs collected within a 1 m² squared area). The samples were collected from six common subtropical vegetation communities in the Meiling Mountains, southeast China, with the vegetation proportions recorded at the collection point. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) was used to investigate the separation of the pair ...
Streptococcus thermophilus; discriminant analysis; fermentation; fermented milk; flavor; hexanoic acid; mass spectrometry; octanoic acid; odors; principal component analysis
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... 46 Streptococcus thermophilus strains, isolated from commercial starters cultures, were studied. The aroma of the fermented milk by these strains was evaluated by quantitative descriptive analysis (QDA). According to its major sensory attribute, the fermented milks were classified into milky-type, creamy-type, cheesy-type, fermented-type and miscellaneous-type groups. One representative sample of ...
... The present study aimed to explore the relationship between the grade and the characteristic aroma in Keemun black tea (KBT). Headspace solid-phase microextraction (HS-SPME), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS), sensory evaluation, and chemometrics were employed to determine the changes in the flavor evolution of KBT at grade. The results showed that a total of 110 volatile components wer ...
... Aroma is one of the most important quality attributes of black tea infusions. In this study, the aroma quality of 44 Dianhong black tea (DBT) infusions were investigated by rapid gas phase electronic nose (GC-E-Nose) combined with multivariate statistical analysis for the first time. Among 61 volatile compounds identified, the most abundant ones were aldehydes. Both partial least squares discrimin ...
... Basal stem rot (BSR) is one of the diseases that threaten the oil palm plantations in Southeast Asia, particularly in Malaysia and Indonesia. As the oil palm plantations continue to grow, there is a need for time-effective, non-destructive, and more precise techniques for detecting BSR. Dielectric spectroscopy has been proven to be an effective method for noninvasive classification of BSR in oil p ...
... A total of 960 beef carcases from northern and southern Australian production regions were assessed by examining the subcutaneous fat. Carcases from four different production systems within each region were assessed, by Raman spectroscopy and the fatty acid composition determined to develop models that best classified the various production systems. As a result, 12 Partial Least Square Discriminan ...
Legionella pneumophila; discriminant analysis; mass spectrometry; models; risk assessment; serotypes
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... AIMS: The efficacy of ambient mass spectrometry to identify and serotype Legionella pneumophila was assessed. To this aim, isolated waterborne colonies were submitted to a rapid extraction method and analysed by direct analysis in real‐time mass spectrometry (DART‐HRMS). METHODS AND RESULTS: The DART‐HRMS profiles, coupled with partial least squares discriminant analysis (PLS‐DA), were first evalu ...
agriculture; air quality; animal welfare; aviaries; discriminant analysis; ecological footprint; egg production; eggs; electronics; models; principal component analysis; relative humidity; temperature; time series analysis; welfare assessment; Canada
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... Since 1990, worldwide egg production has increased on average 2.8% per year. This increase has drawn the attention of animal welfare advocates. In Canada, new challenges have emerged, among them: increased awareness in animal welfare and environmental footprint and a shift to cage-free egg production systems (CFSs). Welfare assessment of environmental control strategies (ECSs), and deployment of e ...
... Remote sensing techniques have the potential to monitor physiological and biochemical changes caused by nutritional stress in plants. However, few studies have monitored the influence of foliar phosphorus levels on the spectral responses of plants, especially maize. This work aimed to assess phosphorus nutritional status in maize plants subjected to different sources and doses of phosphate fertili ...
... Understanding the structure and dynamics of food webs requires accurate estimates of energy flow among organisms. Bulk tissue carbon (δ¹³C) and nitrogen (δ¹⁵N) isotope analysis is often used to this end; however, the limitations of this technique can outweigh the benefits. The isotope analysis of individual amino acids is being increasingly employed to trace energy flow and estimate consumer troph ...
discriminant analysis; fluorescence; fluorescence emission spectroscopy; loss modulus; prediction; principal component analysis; protein content; rapid methods; rheology; sausages; texture; viscoelasticity; water content; France
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... The viscoelastic and the structure properties of three brands of dry sausages (Auvergne, Beef‐poultry, and Galbanetto) were studied using dynamic rheology and fluorescence spectroscopy. The storage and the loss modulus of sausage samples showed a viscoelastic character. The principal component analysis carried out on the normalized rheological and physico‐chemical parameters allowed to differentia ...
Robert P. Davis; Claude E. Boyd; Ravibabu Godumala; Avanigadda B. Ch Mohan; Arturo Gonzalez; Nguyen Phuong Duy; Pande Gde Sasmita J; Nur Ahyani; Olga Shatova; Joshua Wakefield; Blake Harris; Aaron A. McNevin; D. Allen Davis
... Provenance of seafood items is a concern for consumers and importers alike. Elemental profiling has been put forth as a potential tool to improve seafood traceability. Whiteleg shrimp Litopenaeus vannamei collected from farms in Ecuador, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, and Thailand were classified to country of origin based on element concentrations in muscle tissue. Shrimp were dried, digested, and an ...
bioelectrical impedance; body mass index; calves; discriminant analysis; lean body mass; multivariate analysis; physical activity; sports
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... Soccer is a multifactorial sport, in which players are expected to possess well developed physical, psychological, technical, and tactical skills. Thus, the anthropometric and fitness measures play a determinant role and could vary according to the competitive level. Therefore, the present study aimed to verify differences in body composition and physical performance between two soccer team. 162 y ...
... The study aimed to define a grain-adapted quality score (GQS) to assess the fermentative pattern of ensiled high-moisture maize grain (EMG) based on organic acids, ammonia, and ethanol data of a lab-scale dataset. The GQS was validated by comparison with both the Flieg-Zimmer’s quality score (FQS) and a standardized quality score (SQS) by a received operating analysis. Compared with FQS and SQS, t ...
... Because of its high market value, pumpkin seed oil is occasionally adulterated by cheaper refined oils, usually sunflower oil. The standard method for detecting its authenticity is based on expensive and laborious determination of the sterol composition. Therefore, the objective of this study was to determine the sterol content and authenticity of retail oils labelled as pumpkin seed oil and also ...
atomic absorption spectrometry; chemometrics; coconut oil; consumer demand; cooking fats and oils; data collection; discriminant analysis; drugs; least squares; models; prediction; principal component analysis; provenance; research
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... Recently, Virgin coconut oil (VCO) has emerged as one of the most favorable edible oils because of its application in cooking, frying as well as additive used in food, pharmaceuticals, and cosmetic goods. These qualities have established VCO in high consumer demand and there is a great need of establishing a reliable method for the identification of its geographical origin. Through this present st ...
... The scope of the article is to propose an innovative method based on Near Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging (NIR-HSI) to rapidly and non-destructively evaluate the presence or absence of kernels in winter wheat ears (Triticum aestivum L.). This preliminary study has allowed the evaluation of the potential of the method using winter wheat ears collected in a field trial in Belgium. NIR-HSI combined wi ...
X-radiation; computed tomography; discriminant analysis; flax; linseed; mechanical damage; models; radiography; regression analysis; support vector machines; transportation; water content
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... The emergence of flax as a nutritional superfood has brought to the forefront the challenges its producers face in the crop's post-harvest quality preservation. Mechanical damage during harvesting, handling, and transportation can severely impair flaxseed quality causing economic losses to producers and processors. Therefore, this study explored the effect of moisture content and impact stress on ...
... The non-destructive evaluation of internal maturity in watermelons, which are large fruits with a thick rind, during their development on the vine can be considered as a challenge for the growing sector. Near infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) was used to assess in situ soluble solid content (SSC), the main parameter to establish full maturity, in 249 intact watermelons, of which, 152 had a striped ligh ...
Maria Lucimar da Silva Medeiros; J.P. Cruz-Tirado; Adriano Freitas Lima; José Marcelino de Souza Netto; Ana Paula Badan Ribeiro; Doglas Bassegio; Helena Teixeira Godoy; Douglas Fernandes Barbin
... Brassica is a genus of oilseed plants mainly used to produce edible oils, modified lipids, industrial oils, and biofuels. Oil and fatty acid content are the main chemical indicators for Brassicas seed quality (e.g. low content of erucic acid indicate seeds appropriate for food industry, while high contents indicate are suitable in the cosmetic, pharmaceutical and fuel industry). The goal of this w ...
biomarkers; discriminant analysis; genomics; microbiome; quality control
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... There is growing attention toward closed biological genomes in the environment and in health. To explore and reveal the intergroup differences among different samples or environments, it is crucial to discover biomarkers with statistical differences among groups. The application of Linear discriminant analysis Effect Size (LEfSe) can help find good biomarkers. Based on the original genome data, qu ...
adulterated products; butyrates; chemometrics; discriminant analysis; headspace analysis; juice quality; models; octanoic acid; orange juice; quality control
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... Substituting of not from concentrate (NFC) orange juice with from concentrate (FC) orange juice is a novel adulteration problem. This study used headspace solid-phase microextraction-gas chromatography-mass spectrometry coupled with chemometrics to discriminate between NFC and FC orange juices. Twenty-five compounds were identified as differential compounds for NFC and FC orange juice discriminati ...
adulterated products; chemometrics; discriminant analysis; food chemistry; mass spectrometry; olive oil; sunflower oil; support vector machines; therapeutics
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... Recognized for its nutritional and therapeutic use, extra-virgin Argan Oil (EVAO) is frequently adulterated. Selected-Ion Flow-Tube Mass Spectrometry (SIFT-MS) spectra were applied to quantify adulterants (i.e., Argan oil of lower quality (LQAO), olive oil (OO), and sunflower oil (SO)) in EVAO. Four data sets, i.e., using H₃O⁺, NO⁺, O₂⁺ reagent ions, and the combined data were considered. Soft ind ...
... This study aimed at developing a non-invasive and rapid method to determine the authenticity of plant-based protein powders (free of soy, lactose, and gluten), and classify possible adulterations in the powders using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIR) and chemometric tools. Three potential powder adulterants were investigated: soy protein, whey (lactose source), and wheat (gluten source). The goal w ...
... Sterol composition is used as a “fingerprint” to demonstrate the authenticity of olive oils. Our study’s objective was to exhaustively characterize the sterol composition of Empeltre olive oils from clonal selection during the ripening period in 2017, 2018, and 2019. We likewise assessed the influence of crop year, fruit ripening, and clonal selection on the oils’ regulatory compliance in terms of ...
Maribel Alexandra Quelal-Vásconez; Riccardo Macchioni; Greta Livi; Édgar Pérez-Esteve; María Jesús Lerma-García; Pau Talens; José Manuel Barat; Mikael Agerlin Petersen; Rasmus Bro
... A total of 56 key volatile compounds present in natural and alkalized cocoa powders have been rapidly evaluated using a non-target approach using stir bar sorptive extraction gas chromatography mass spectrometry (SBSE-GC–MS) coupled to Parallel Factor Analysis 2 (PARAFAC2) automated in PARADISe. Principal component analysis (PCA) explained 80% of the variability of the concentration, in four PCs, ...
agriculture; automatic detection; databases; discriminant analysis; electronics; models; prediction; principal component analysis; support vector machines; Belgium
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... The quality of online visible and near infrared (vis-NIR) soil spectra can be deteriorated by interferences of ambient light, and debris e.g., stones, roots or plant residues among others, which considerably reduces the accuracy of the predictions. Filtering of very noisy and non-soil spectra from good-quality soil spectra needs to be performed prior the modelling. Nevertheless, manual filtering o ...
... Halophytes play a crucial ecological role in drought and saline–alkali environments. However, there is limited knowledge about the structure of bacterial communities and the potential microbial coexistence mechanism associated with halophytes. This study investigated the diversity and community structure of endophytic and rhizospheric bacteria associated with three halophytes by applying high-thro ...
... The ability to rapidly and reliably screen for bacterial vaginosis (BV) during pregnancy is of great significance for maternal health and pregnancy outcomes. In this proof-of-concept study, we demonstrated the potential of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors (NTFET) in the rapid diagnostics of BV with the sensing of BV-related factors such as pH and biogenic amines. The fabricated sensors sho ...
... Doushen is a traditional Chinese fermented soybean product prepared with sterilizated soybeans under open conditions. However, little is known on the bacterial community and their influence on the flavor of Doushen. In the present study, Doushen samples with and without chili pepper were collected to reveal the bacterial community and assess a correlation between bacterial community and VFCs in th ...
Oriental traditional medicine; alternative medicine; blood; colon; discriminant analysis; doxorubicin; echocardiography; genes; heart failure; intestinal microorganisms; intestinal mucosa; species diversity
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... BACKGROUND: Sini Decoction (SND), a classic Chinese medicine prescription, has been proved to have a good effect on heart failure (HF), whereas its underlying mechanism is still unclear. In order to explore the therapeutic mechanism of SND, we combined with 16S rRNA gene sequencing to analyze the composition of gut microflora in rats with HF. MATERIAL AND METHODS: Twenty Sprague–Dawley (SD) rats w ...
... This study investigated the impacts of lime addition and further microbial inoculum on gaseous emission and humification during kitchen waste composting. High-throughput sequencing was integrated with Linear Discriminant Analysis Effect Size (LEfSe) and Functional Annotation of Prokaryotic Taxa (FAPROTAX) to decipher bacterial dynamics in response to different additives. Results showed that lime a ...
... A biosensor integrated with mannose nano-surface was developed for the identification and adhesive strength evaluation of bacteria. Different bacteria were studied on the designed surface by both electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). S. typhimurium and E. coli JM109 (type 1 pili) were found to be captured by the mannose nano-surface. SERS spec ...
... Plum fruit and kernels offer bioactive material for industrial production. The promising procedure for distinguishing plum kernel cultivars used in this study comprised two stages: image analysis to compute the texture parameters of plum kernels belonging to three cultivars ‘Emper’, ‘Kalipso’, and ‘Polinka’, and discriminant analysis using machine learning algorithms to classify plum kernel cultiv ...
... The ability to detect glucose concentrations in human urine offers a non-invasive approach to monitor changes in blood glucose, kidney health and vascular complications associated with diabetes. We show the potential of employing catalytically active nanoparticles directly grown on textiles to produce a dose-dependent colorimetric sensor for glucose. We use a galvanic replacement (GR) reaction for ...
... Wolves (Canis lupus) are generally monitored by visual observations, camera traps, and DNA traces. In this study, we evaluated acoustic monitoring of wolf howls as a method for monitoring wolves, which may permit detection of wolves across longer distances than that permitted by camera traps. We analyzed acoustic data of wolves’ howls collected from both wild and captive ones. The analysis focused ...
biochar; community structure; composted manure; discriminant analysis; ecosystems; fungal communities; karsts; land degradation; mineral fertilizers; mountains; nutrient content; soil carbon; soil fungi; soil nutrients; soil restoration; wood; China
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... The karst ecosystem is prone to degradation and this accounts for a large proportion of land degradation in southwestern China. In order to improve the nutrient status and microbial community structure of karst soil, the amendment method of combining biochar, compost, and chemical fertilizer l was explored. With CK as the control, M as manure compost, B as wood biochar, and F as chemical fertilize ...
... Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are generated in different commodities through various biosynthetic pathways. They act as biomarkers for different infections and metabolisms and can be instrumental in the development of biosensors for monitoring the health of stored horticultural commodities. Healthy onions and samples infected with Pectobacter Erwinia carotovora were stored at different conditi ...
... Background: Previous studies have indicated the limitations of body mass index for defining disease phenotypes. The description of asthma phenotypes based on body composition (BC) has not been largely reported. Objective: To identify and characterize phenotypes based on BC parameters in patients with asthma. Methods: A study with two prospective observational cohorts analyzing adult patients with ...
... Butyl-fructooligosaccharides (B-FOSs) are newly synthesized prebiotics composed of short-chain FOS (GF2, 1-kestose; GF3, nystose; GF4, fructofuranosyl-nystose; GF5, 1-F-(1-b-d-fructofuranosyl)-2-nystose) bound with one or two butyric groups by ester bonds. Previous in vitro studies have shown that B-FOS treatment increases butyrate production and protects the growth of butyrate-producing bacteria ...
... Among the dairy sector's current concerns, the assessment of global animal health status is a complex challenge. Its multidimensionality means that global monitoring tools are rarely considered. Instead, specific disease detection is often studied separately and, due to financial and ethical issues, uses small-scale data sets focusing on few biomarkers. Several studies have already been conducted ...
Gerard Sapes; Cathleen Lapadat; Anna K. Schweiger; Jennifer Juzwik; Rebecca Montgomery; Hamed Gholizadeh; Philip A. Townsend; John A. Gamon; Jeannine Cavender-Bares
... The oak wilt disease caused by the invasive fungal pathogen Bretziella fagacearum is one of the greatest threats to oak-dominated forests across the Eastern United States. Accurate detection and monitoring over large areas are necessary for management activities to effectively mitigate and prevent the spread of oak wilt. Canopy spectral reflectance contains both phylogenetic and physiological info ...
... Developing robust cell recognition strategies is important in biochemical research, but the lack of well-defined target molecules creates a bottleneck in some applications. In this paper, a carbon nanotube sensor array was constructed for the label-free discrimination of live and dead mammalian cells. Three types of carbon nanotube field-effect transistors were fabricated, and different features w ...
... In the present study, the impact of co-inoculation of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AM Rhizophagus sp., NCBI-MN710507) and Zinc solubilizing bacteria (ZSB2- Bacillus megaterium, NCBI-KY687496) on plant growth, soil dehydrogenase activity, soil respiration and the changes in bacterial diversity in rhizosphere of turmeric (Curcuma longa) were examined. Our results showed that higher plant height and ...