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... There is rising research interest in consumers’ emotions elicited by foods. To this end, emotion lexicons as part of food-evoked emotion measurement methods have been developed. Though there are various methods and techniques for emotion measurement, verbal self-report on behalf of the consumer has been identified as the most direct means of assessing the experience of emotion. The focus of this r ...
measurement, etc ; electrons; sampling; steel; tomography; Show all 5 Subjects
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... To identify different types of precipitates and their composition, analytical electron tomography analysis on a needle-shaped sample was performed. Three-dimensional chemical maps from each element in a high alloyed steel are acquired and the resulting elemental maps are jointly reconstructed. Since analytical electron tomography data suffers from noise, total generalized variation regularization ...
measurement, etc ; experimental design; sampling; testing; Show all 4 Subjects
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... INTRODUCTION: The Sniffin’ Sticks threshold test is widely used to assess olfactory threshold due to its high reliability and validity. Nevertheless, this test procedure is quite long with an average duration of 10 to 20 min. In study designs that require multiple olfactory threshold tests on short intervals, this could exhaust participants. To counteract this limitation, we developed the informed ...
measurement, etc ; morphs; optical properties; superconductivity; temperature; Show all 5 Subjects
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... We have examined the electronic structure and optical properties of intermetallic IrSn₄ for three polymorphic modifications, α-IrSn₄, β-IrSn₄, and γ-IrSn₄, utilizing the first-principles PAW-PBEsol-GGA and FP-LAPW-LSDA methods. The obtained electronic structure data reveal clear-cut differences between α-IrSn₄ and the remaining morphs. This observation may be used to explain the appearance of supe ...
measurement, etc ; data collection; economic valuation; pistachios; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Pistachio is a healthy and delicious snack with high economic value, especially when product consists of only open pistachios. For this reason, many studies have been carried out in the literature to classify Pistachio according to whether they are open or closed. In this study, the classification process of pistachios was carried out according to whether they are open or closed using deep learnin ...
measurement, etc ; algorithms; fields; frequency; remote sensing; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Two main difficulties for the accurate direction of arrival (DOA) estimation in a distributed sensor system are grating lobes and system synchronization. Different from the traditional phased array system based on single carrier frequency, this paper designs a novel architecture for distributed sensor system using dual carrier frequency measurements. Both two carrier frequencies are combined and t ...
measurement, etc ; astringency; flavanols; grapes; polymerization; wines; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Tannins are the molecules that are responsible for the astringency perceptions of wines. However, the mechanisms by which tannins influence the astringency perceptions of wines remain unclear. In the current study, the grape varieties had greater effects on the tannin profiles than did the aging periods. The percentage of galloylated flavanols (%G) was positively correlated with drying astringency ...
measurement, etc ; global positioning systems; remote sensing; Show all 3 Subjects
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... Sporadic-E (Es) occurrence rates from Global Position Satellite radio occultation (GPS-RO) measurements have shown to vary by a factor of five between studies, motivating the need for a comparison with ground-based measurements. In an attempt to find accurate GPS-RO techniques for detecting Es formation, occurrence rates derived using five previously developed GPS-RO techniques are compared to ion ...
measurement, etc ; chemical communication; electrochemistry; lithium batteries; Show all 4 Subjects
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... Three-electrode measurements are valuable to the understanding of the electrochemical processes in a battery system. However, their application in lithium–sulfur chemistry is difficult due to the complexity of the system and thus rarely reported. Here, we present a simple three-electrode cell format with relatively good life time and minimum interference with the cell operation. ...
measurement, etc ; Homo; chemical communication; prediction; research; Show all 5 Subjects
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... Although organic photovoltaic (OPV) molecules containing non-covalent conformational locks (NCLs) are demonstrated with superior device scale charge transport, the NCLs’ working mechanism at the molecular level has not been directly addressed or revealed. Herein, three widely used OPV building blocks DT-BT, DT-FBT, and DT-OBT were prepared and comparatively researched for their intra-molecule char ...
measurement, etc ; algorithms; journals; models; radioactivity; radionuclides; sampling; Show all 7 Subjects
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... Large networks producing frequent atmospheric radionuclide measurements have additional power in characterizing and localizing radionuclide release events over the analysis performed with four or fewer radionuclide measurements. However, adding unrelated measurements to an analysis dilutes that advantage, unless source-term models are extended to account for this complexity. A key steppingstone to ...
measurement, etc ; Americans; covariance; journals; simulation models; variance; Show all 6 Subjects
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... We consider estimation of mean and covariance functions of functional snippets, which are short segments of functions possibly observed irregularly on an individual specific subinterval that is much shorter than the entire study interval. Estimation of the covariance function for functional snippets is challenging since information for the far off-diagonal regions of the covariance structure is co ...
measurement, etc ; exhibitions; geometry; probability; radar; remote sensing; Show all 6 Subjects
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... In this paper, we study a geometric dilution of a precision (GDOP)-based localization performance metric for multisite radar adopting a time-of-arrival (TOA)-based localization scheme. In contrast to the existing literature, we consider an actual uncertain measurement situation where the detection probabilities of radar nodes are assumed to be less than unity. The aim is to formulate a general sig ...
measurement, etc ; mathematical models; remote sensing; solutions; sounds; yields; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The paper presents an approach to the simultaneous use of SDCM and EGNOS corrections for two GNSS receivers placed at a constant distance. The SDCM and EGNOS corrections were applied for two GPS code measurements on L1 frequency: C1C and C1W. The approach is based mainly on the constrained least squares adjustment, but for the horizontal and vertical coordinates, the Kalman Filter was applied in o ...
measurement, etc ; antioxidant activity; chlorophyll; flour; foams; pasta; spinach; Show all 7 Subjects
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... The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of blanching and spinach drying methods on the physicochemical and cooking properties of enriched pasta. Blanched and unblanched spinach were subjected to fixed bed drying and foam mat drying and used to enrich the pasta. The pasta enriched with blanched spinach showed more desirable physicochemical properties, for both drying methods. The blanching ...
measurement, etc ; alloys; electrons; grains; journals; sampling; thermal conductivity; Show all 7 Subjects
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... A high thermoelectric figure of merit ZT of 2.5 at 730 K is achieved in p-type Ge₁₋ₓSmₓTe through synergetic optimization of electrical and thermal transport properties. Sm doping effectively suppresses the excess Ge vacancies, which is confirmed by positron annihilation measurements. As a result, the intrinsic hole carrier concentration is tuned to the optimum value in GeTe, leading to improvemen ...
measurement, etc ; colloids; contact angle; image analysis; journals; liquids; Show all 6 Subjects
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... The drop deposition technique can impact contact angle measurements. We hypothesized that the drop pinch-off, during the traditionally used pendant drop technique, significantly alters the static contact angle. The capillary waves and dynamic wetting pressure generated during the pendant drop deposition are the source for forced spreading, which can be circumvented by alternative liquid-needle dro ...
measurement, etc ; Olea europaea; calcium; linolenic acid; olives; potassium; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Instant controlled pressure drop (DIC) was widely used as a treatment to intensify the extraction of bioactive compounds from plants. The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of DIC treatment on the biochemical composition and functional properties of Chemlali olive leaves. DIC conditions were pressure P = 0.1 MPa, number of cycles C = 1 and time t = 11 s. The concentrations of protein, f ...
measurement, etc ; markets; menaquinones; natto; phylloquinone; refrigeration; solvents; vegetables; Show all 8 Subjects
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... A simultaneous sample preparation for vitamins K₁ (phylloquinone) and K₂ (menaquinones MK4 and MK7) was developed for vegetable drinks and natto by solvent extraction optimization for each matrix. Vitamin K has shown several health benefits, but no simple method exists for its rapid identification and quantification in food samples. The recovery rates were in the range 81.26–104.40%, with relative ...
measurement, etc ; Monte Carlo method; exhibitions; lightning; remote sensing; uncertainty; Show all 6 Subjects
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... Most lightning location networks obtain the position results by optimizing the goodness of fit to determine that all combinatorial time differences of arrivals (TDOAs) are due to a common discharge. This paper proposes a three-dimensional (3D) lightning location method based on range difference (RD) space projection. The proposed method projects all the measurements into the RD space, which has th ...