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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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
... 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 ...
... The influence of boiling cooking (BC), steam cooking (SC) and sous-vide cooking (SVC) on color, texture, sensory attributes and oxidation deterioration of pork steaks were evaluated during refrigerated storage. The eating quality (color, texture and sensory attributes) and oxidation stability of cooked meat were significantly affected by cooking treatment and refrigeration time (P < 0.05). In comp ...
... The influence of the geographical location and clone type on the contents of flavonols and organic acids of Sauvignon blanc grapes over the ripening process was investigated. The assay was carried out on three commercial clones of cv. Sauvignon blanc (Clone 242, Clone 107, and Clone 1-Davis) grown in two zones (referred to as low and high zones) in Casablanca Valley, Chile. The low zone is closer ...
... Adulterated, poor-quality, and unsafe foods, including meat, are still major issues for both the food industry and consumers, which have driven efforts to find alternative technologies to detect these challenges. This study evaluated the use of a portable near-infrared (NIR) instrument, combined with chemometrics, to identify and classify individual-intact fresh goat muscle samples. Fresh goat car ...
acetates; apples; case studies; cultivars; discriminant analysis; germplasm; linalool; principal component analysis
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... A large number of apple varieties (35) from the same germplasm were investigated over two consecutive harvest years. A total of 39 volatile compounds were identified by HS-SPME-GC-MS, and quantified by external standards. Principal component analysis was applied to study the relationship between varieties and volatiles. To obtain better discrimination, 23 of 35 apple varieties were classified into ...
... The superior grade Daqu (S_Daqu) and normal grade Daqu (N_Daqu) have obvious differences in flavor, fracture surface, appearance, etc., which can be accurately grouped by well-trained panel based on their sensory properties. However, the differences in microbial community diversity and metabolites between the S_Daqu and N_Daqu were still unclear. The culture-dependent method, the third generation ...
... The quality of probiotics has been associated with bacteria and yeast strains’ contents and their stability against conditioning factors. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS), as a non-destructive, fast, real-time, and cost-effective analytical technique, can provide some advantages over more traditional food quality control methods in quality evaluation. The aim of our study was to evaluate the appl ...
... Honey is a natural sweetener constituted by numerous macro- and micronutrients. Carbohydrates are the most representative, with glucose and fructose being the most abundant. Minor honey components like volatile organic compounds (VOCs), minerals, vitamins, amino acids are able to confer honey-specific properties and are useful to characterize and differentiate between honey varieties according to ...
... Sixty samples of chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) harvested in the Italian territories of Cicerale (Campania), Valentano (Lazio) and Navelli (Abruzzo) in 2019 were characterized by determination of the content of ten elements (Ca, K, P, Mg, Mo, Cu, Fe, Mn, Zn and Sr) with Inductively Coupled Plasma Optical Emission Spectrometry (ICP-OES). Classification of the samples was performed using both discrim ...
... During this study, the physicochemical properties, color, and volatile aroma compounds of the original wines produced from the grape varieties ‘Hassan’, ‘Zuoshaner’, ‘Beibinghong’, ‘Zuoyouhong’, ‘Beta’, ‘Shuanghong’, ‘Zijingganlu’, ‘Cabernet Sauvignon’, and ‘Syrah’ were determined and sensory evaluation was performed. Results indicated that ‘Hassan’ contained the most solids, ‘Zuoshaner’ produced ...
cluster analysis; cold; discriminant analysis; flavor; food preservation; gas chromatography-mass spectrometry; irradiation; linolenic acid; octenol; odors; oils; principal component analysis
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... Evening primrose oil (EPO) is rich in linolenic acid, which has important physiological activity and attracted more and more attention. As a cold sterilization technology, irradiation is widely used in food preservation. However, the effect of irradiation on the flavour quality of EPO is unclear. The volatile aroma compounds examined by gas chromatography‐mass spectrometry (GC‐MS), combined with t ...
Calliphora; Lucilia sericata; Musca vetustissima; Sarcophaga crassipalpis; computer software; dead animals; discriminant analysis; flight; insects; males; species identification
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... The incidental sound produced by the oscillation of insect wings during flight provides an opportunity for species identification. Calyptrate flies include some of the fastest and most agile flying insects, capable of rapid changes in direction and the fast pursuit of conspecifics. This flight pattern makes the continuous and close recording of their wingbeat frequency difficult and limited to con ...
chemometrics; databases; discriminant analysis; least squares; models; prediction; principal component analysis; spectral analysis
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... Members of the genus Salvia are used as culinary herbs and are prized for their purported medicinal attributes. Since physiological effects can vary widely between species of Salvia, it is of great importance to accurately identify botanical material to ensure safety for consumers. In the present study, an in-depth chemical investigation is performed utilizing GC/Q-ToF combined with chemometrics. ...
Metatheria; Pinus radiata; alcohols; bark; chemical ecology; chemistry; conifers; death; discriminant analysis; field experimentation; fructose; genetic variation; glucose; herbivores; nutrition; phenolic compounds; secondary metabolites; sesquiterpenoids; trees; Australia
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... Bark stripping by mammals is a major problem in managed conifer forests worldwide. In Australia, bark stripping in the exotic plantations of Pinus radiata is mainly caused by native marsupials and results in reduced survival, growth, and in extreme cases death of trees. Herbivory is influenced by a balance between primary metabolites that are sources of nutrition and secondary metabolites that act ...
Emanuele Catarina da Silva Oliveira; José Maria Rodrigues da Luz; Marina Gomes de Castro; Paulo Roberto Filgueiras; Rogério Carvalho Guarçoni; Eustáquio Vinicius Ribeiro de Castro; Marliane de Cássia Soares da Silva; Lucas Louzada Pereira
... Edaphoclimatic conditions, planting altitudes, soil, the microbiome of plants and fruits, genotypes, and postharvest processing are variables that contribute to the chemical and sensory quality of the coffee. Thus, the objective of this study was to evaluate the impacts of planting altitude and fermentation of fruits on the chemical and sensory quality of the coffee using Nuclear Magnetic Resonanc ...
Schisandra chinensis; chemical composition; discriminant analysis; high performance liquid chromatography; least squares; mass spectrometry; metabolomics; models; research; ultra-performance liquid chromatography
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... An ultra-high performance liquid chromatography coupled with quadrupole Orbitrap mass spectrometry (UHPLC-Q-Orbitrap/MS)-based metabolomics method was applied to investigate the chemome diversity of Schisandra chinensis fructus (SF) and its processed products, including vinegar-processed Schisandra (VS), wine-processed Schisandra (WS), and honey-processed Schisandra (HS). A clear classification am ...
... A method based on elemental fingerprint, stable isotopic analysis and combined with chemometrics was proposed to trace the geographical origins of Licorice (Glycyrrhiza uralensis Fisch) from 37 producing areas. For elemental fingerprint, the levels of 15 elements, including Ca, Cu, Mg, Pb, Zn, Sr, Mn, Se, Cd, Fe, Na, Al, Cr, Co, and K, were analyzed by inductively coupled plasma atomic emission sp ...
... Italian honeys from different floral sources (acacia, orange, honeydew, chestnut, strawberry tree, sulla, eucalyptus, dandelion, linden, polyfloral) were analysed in terms of colour, total phenolic content, in vitro antioxidant capacity and content of 15 phenolic compounds. Physicochemical parameters were also examined to assess the overall quality of honey. Dark honeys demonstrated to have the hi ...
... Coccidiosis is a well-known poultry disease that causes the severe destruction of the intestinal tract, resulting in reduced growth performance and immunity, disrupted gut homeostasis and perturbed gut microbiota. Supplementation of probiotics were explored to play a key role in improving growth performance, enhancing innate and adaptive immunity, maintaining gut homeostasis and modulating gut mic ...
... BACKGROUND: Chlorothalonil is a nonsystemic fungicide, and it is one of the most widely detected pesticides in bee hives. The effect of chlorothalonil on the survival, weight, and gut microbiota of immature Apis mellifera L. reared in vitro was studied. RESULTS: Larvae were fed 1, 2, 4, 8, and 16 μg/mL chlorothalonil and compared with larvae fed the negative control (diet without any additives), p ...
... The high morphological variability of Viola arvensis may hinder the proper identification of the closely related species with an implication for biodiversity surveys. Variation in floral and vegetative morphology was explored in V. arvensis, compared to V. kitaibeliana, based upon 14 wild Italian populations, to provide new insights into their diagnostic features. Species were characterized using ...
... The ¹H-NMR carbohydrates profiling was used to discriminate fruits from Rosaceae family in terms of botanical origin and harvest year. The classification was possible by application of multivariate data analysis, such as principal component analysis (PCA), linear discriminant analysis (LDA) and Pearson analysis. Prior, a heat map was created based on ¹H-NMR signals which offered an overview of the ...
chemometrics; discriminant analysis; prices; principal component analysis; protected designation of origin; quality control; support vector machines; ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy; wines
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... The suitability of UV–Vis spectrometry was evaluated for the classification of undiluted and diluted Slovak Tokaj wine samples according to style (essences, Tokaj selection, varietal and other wines), grade (quantity of cibebas), and variety (Furmint, Lipovina, and Muškát žltý) using principal component analysis (PCA), variable selection (VS), linear discriminant analysis (LDA), general discrimina ...
Istiophorus platypterus; agriculture; artificial intelligence; climate; data collection; discriminant analysis; ecological balance; electronics; ice; models; system optimization
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... Clouds are structures formed by ice crystals, water grains, or both that come together in the atmosphere for various reasons. Clouds have a direct impact on areas such as climate, ecological balance, and air traffic. It is now inevitable to knead the devices used to detect cloud types with artificial intelligence technologies. In this process, deep learning models have begun to be used in the dete ...
Cerambycidae; Pinus densiflora; Pinus koraiensis; algorithms; carotenoids; chlorophyll; discriminant analysis; forest diseases; forests; mortality; vascular wilt; water content; China
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... Pine wilt disease (PWD) is a very destructive forest disease that causes the mortality of pine. The infected trees usually die within three months, and the disease spreads fast with the long-horned beetle as the medium if the infected trees are not removed from the forest in time. Therefore, detecting the infected trees at different infection stage, especially the early infection, is crucial for p ...
chickpeas; color; discriminant analysis; flour; food industry; healthy diet; lentils; navy beans; peas; principal component analysis; wavelengths
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... With increasing consumer interest in healthy food formulations made from pulse flours, the research gap in characterizing them based on their pulse type and milling technique has come to limelight. To this end, the feasibility of using hyperspectral imaging in the visible near infrared (Vis-NIR) (400–1000 nm) and short wave infrared (SWIR) (1000–2500 nm) regions to classify pulse flours (viz. chic ...
adults; discriminant analysis; morphometry; sheep; support vector machines; India
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... One classical method-linear discriminant analysis and two machine learning methods-artificial neural network (ANN) and support vector machine (SVM) were used to classify animals of eight sheep breeds of India (Kolhapuri, Lonand, Marwari, Munjal, Muzaffarnagri, Madgyal, Sangamneri and Solapuri) on the basis of morphometric characters. Atotal of 1558 adult ewes were included in the study. The set ra ...
... Identifying compounds present in the sugarcane epicuticular wax and using these compounds to classify the genotypes susceptible and resistant to the initial attack of sugarcane borer (Diatraea saccharalis) was the aim of this study. A greenhouse experiment was performed in a factorial scheme with and without borer infestation using genotypes previously characterized as resistant or susceptible in ...
... Plants leave testimonies of undergoing physical state by depicting distinct variations in their electrophysiological data. Adequate nutrition of plants signifies their role in the growth and a plentiful harvest. Plant signal data carries enough information to detect and analyse nutrient deficiency. Classification of nutrient deficiencies through signal decomposition and bilevel measurements has no ...
Myotis; color; discriminant analysis; humidity; pigmentation; Alberta
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... Gloger's rule is an ecogeographical pattern observed in many vertebrates whereby populations in more humid environments have darker pigmentation than populations in more arid environments. The coat color for several species of temperate bats exhibits this pattern, including the Western Long-eared Bat (Myotis evotis) in coastal versus interior populations. We tested Gloger's rule by comparing the c ...
Mónica Mendes Costa; Paula Alexandra Lopes; José Miguel Pestana Assunção; Cristina Maria Riscado Pereira Mateus Alfaia; Diogo Francisco Maurício Coelho; Miguel Pedro Mourato; Rui Manuel Amaro Pinto; Maria Madalena Lordelo; José António Mestre Prates
... BACKGROUND: The Laminaria digitata is an abundant macroalga and a sustainable feedstock for poultry nutrition. L. digitata is a good source of essential amino acids, carbohydrates and vitamins, including A, D, E, and K, as well as triacylglycerols and minerals, in particular iron and calcium. However, the few studies available in the literature with broilers document the application of this macroa ...
... This study, conducted over two consecutive seasons (2018–2019), evaluates the yield and fruit physico-chemical traits of five commercial cultivars (‘Mollar’, ‘Dente di Cavallo’, ‘Acco’, ‘Jolly red’ and ‘Wonderful’) grown in the orchard at Foggia (Puglia region, southeastern Italy). The results show significant variations among the investigated cultivars for many measured parameters; seasons also s ...
... BACKGROUND: Argan oil is one of the purest and rarest oils in the world, so that the addition of any further product is strictly prohibited by international regulations. Consequently, it is necessary to establish reliable analytical methods to ensure its authenticity. In this study, three multivariate approaches have been developed and validated using fluorescence, UV–visible, and attenuated total ...
... Species differing in life-history attributes vary in their responses to features within a shared landscape. We evaluated genetic structure of sympatric gartersnake species in southwestern Ontario (Canada) and southeastern Michigan (USA), where habitat fragmentation is high due to agriculture and urbanization. We surveyed genetic structure of a habitat specialist, Butler’s Gartersnake (Thamnophis b ...
... (1) Background: The aim of our study is to present the results of initial growth and plant physiology studies of newly selected, vegetative propagated black locust clones, with a view to assess their suitability for the establishment of fast growing tree plantations for the production of high quality timber in marginal (semi-arid) sites. (2) Methods: In the spring (May) and autumn (November) of 20 ...
... Village chicken is known as a high-quality product perception and sold at high prices. However, the authenticity of village chicken is doubted because colored chicken has been claimed as village chicken to fraud the consumers and to gain high profit. No stringent strategy has been implemented by the local authority on the authenticity of the claimed village chickens. Thus, the study aimed to deter ...
Vaccinium corymbosum; Vaccinium myrtillus; abscisic acid; blood serum; catechol; chemometrics; citric acid; data collection; discriminant analysis; fruits; liquids; mass spectrometry; metabolites; metabolomics; octanoic acid; principal component analysis; risk; sulfates
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... Untargeted liquid chromatographic-high-resolution mass spectrometric (LC-HRMS) metabolomics for potential exposure marker (PEM) discovery in nutrikinetic studies generates complex outputs. The correct selection of statistically significant PEMs is a crucial analytical step for understanding nutrition-health interactions. Hence, in this paper, different chemometric selection workflows for PEM disco ...
... This study examines the ability of fluorescence spectroscopy for monitoring the quality of 70 Moroccan virgin olive oils belonging to three varieties and originating from three regions of Morocco. By applying principal component analysis and factorial discriminant analysis to the emission spectra acquired after excitation wavelengths set at 270, 290, and 430 nm, a clear differentiation between sam ...
cloud cover; data collection; discriminant analysis; land cover; lidar; normal distribution; probability; radar; satellites
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... The Vectorized Earth Observation Retrieval (VEOR) algorithm is a novel algorithm suited to the efficient supervised classification of large Earth Observation (EO) datasets. VEOR addresses shortcomings in well-established machine learning methods with an emphasis on numerical performance. Its characteristics include (1) derivation of classification probability; (2) objective selection of classifica ...
bioelectrical impedance; discriminant analysis; freeze-thaw cycles; least squares; models; near-infrared spectroscopy; seafoods; supply chain; time domain reflectometry; tuna
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... Bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy and time domain reflectometry (TDR) were compared as non-destructive techniques, coupled with a classifier based on partial least square discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), to assess added water detection in a seafood model: tuna. Three classification models were developed for each technology in unfrozen, thawed and in a combinat ...
... Coffee flavor is a complex commercial trait and its generation mechanisms remain largely unclear. Here, we investigated non-volatile and volatile compounds in the AA grade coffee beans of cultivated and wild Coffea arabica accessions in Kenya. An increased accumulation of trigonelline and sucrose along with a decreased accumulation of caffeine and 5-caffeoylquinic acid or chlorogenic acid (CGA) re ...
... Phenols are harmful to the human body and the environment. Since there are a variety of phenols in actual samples, this requires a sensor which possesses the ability to simultaneously distinguish them. Herein, we report a colorimetric sensor array, which uses two nanozymes (Fe–N–C nanozymes and Cu–N–C nanozymes) as electronic tongues for fingerprint identification of six phenols (2,4,6-trichloroph ...
COVID-19 infection; Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2; amino acids; codons; demographic statistics; discriminant analysis; evolution; gene frequency; genomics; genotyping; monitoring; mutants; nucleocapsid; risk; virus transmission; Africa; Asia; North America; South America
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... Since its emergence in 2019, SARS-CoV-2 has spread and evolved globally, with newly emerged variants of concern (VOCs) accounting for more than 500 million COVID-19 cases and 6 million deaths. Continuous surveillance utilizing simple genetic tools is needed to measure the viral epidemiological diversity, risk of infection, and distribution among different demographics in different geographical reg ...
... 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 ...
discriminant analysis; fluorescence; glutathione; histidine; lignans; polyethyleneimine; principal component analysis; rapid methods; riparian areas; seawater; tap water; water pollution; water quality
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... In recent years, the prevention and control of water pollution has received extensive attention. There is a need to develop simple and effective strategies for the rapid detection of metal ions and dissolved organic matter (DOM) in order to improve water quality. To this end, the first copper nanoclusters (CuNCs)-based fluorescent sensor array was done to identify 12 metal ions (Pb²⁺, Fe³⁺, Cu²⁺, ...
Eledone; Octopus vulgaris; automation; cost effectiveness; country of origin labeling; discriminant analysis; fisheries; food safety; least squares; near-infrared spectroscopy; provenance; spectrometers
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... Modern analytical techniques using miniaturized and portable near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy instruments are particularly suited for assessing the authenticity of fishery products since meeting the requirements of rapidity, eco-friendliness, cost-effectiveness, and easiness of application. The objective of the present study was to verify the suitability of use of a portable and ultra-compact NIR ...
Jailton de Jesus Silva; Tatiana Góes Junghans; Carlos Alberto da Silva Ledo; Fabiane de Lima Silva; Everton Hilo de Souza; Kuang Hongyu; Fernanda Vidigal Duarte Souza
... Cryopreservation is an interesting strategy for the long-term conservation of the seeds of the majority of cultivated plants as well as many of the corresponding wild parents. The objective of this study was to evaluate the response of the seeds of different passion fruit species to cryopreservation, as well as to apply multivariate tools to better understand the germinative behavior after thawing ...