DIVERSITY OF PERCEPTIONS OF MEAT TENDERNESS AND JUICINESS BY CONSUMERS: A TIME-INTENSITY STUDY

Seven judges, untrained in sensory assessment, were trained in the use of Time Intensity (TI) and asked to monitor the tenderness and juiciness of a range of cooked beef and pork samples. The subjects were given no definitions concerning sensory cues to monitor in their assessments, nor did they confer with each other. The shapes of the TI curves they recorded for tenderness and juiciness differed between individuals, although there were similarities in the curve shapes for the 2 attributes for each individual. Correlations between the intensity parameters of the curves (maximum intensity and area under curve) and the chewing time were not significant for the subjects as a group for tenderness, although significant correlations were found for some of the subjects when examined individually. The results indicate that subjects differ in their concepts of sensory tenderness and juiciness, and that perceived tenderness does not correlate with chewing time for all subjects. In more general terms the study supports the use of TI assessments for interpreting individual differences in sensory perceptions.     

固体氧化物燃料电池氧化还原反应热流场模拟

为了研究固体氧化物燃料电池的氧化还原反应的热流场分布情况,建立了氧化还原反应的热流场环境.设计了连接管式高温炉的气体通路,研究了固体氧化物燃料电池在氧化还原反应中热流场的控制方式,分析了氧化还原反应热流场计算条件,并使用数值模拟工具进行计算与模拟.实验结果表明:氧化还原反应热流场的温度分布可以分为293 K、324.111 K、355.222K、386.333K、417.444K、448.556K、479.667K、510.778K、541.889K和573K等9个温度场分布等值区域,X坐标方向速度场分布范围为-0.200 261~0.177 592,Y坐标方向速度场分布范围为-0.275 204~0.260 32,及速度矢量范围为0~0.284 156,有助于显现氧化还原气体分布状况和氧化还原反应渐变过程.     

Representation of the maximal (A,B)-invariant subspace in a given nullspace

For multi-output systems, necessary and sufficient conditions are derived for the maximal (A, B) -invariant subspace in the nullspace of C to be given by a generalization of the expression that holds in the single-output case. Some sufficient conditions are also given. These results are applied to extend to the multi-output case the result of Falb and Wolovich (1967) for Morgan's decoupling problem (1964).     

An examination of land use change due to irrigated agriculture in north‐eastern Jordan using geoinformatics

The Jordanian government has encouraged irrigated agriculture since the early 1990s by providing low cost loans to drill private wells. The impacts of this practice on land use change were examined within a small (362 km²) area of the Jordanian Badia using Geoinformatics. Aerial photographs, SPOT and Landsat TM imageries were used, in a GIS environment, to map and examine changes in the farming patterns since 1990. Field surveys and questionnaires were used to ground truth the remotely sensed data. The results indicate that the cultivated area has increased from just 28.5 ha in 1990 to over 1000 ha in 2000 and that the number of farms has increased from 2 to 32 over the same time period. Furthermore, farm locations are moved annually restricted by the position of the well and land availability; this also causes land use change.     

Enamel alteration following tooth bleaching and remineralization

The purpose of this study was to compare the effects of professional tooth whitening agents containing highly concentrated hydrogen peroxide (with and without laser activation), on the enamel surface; and the potential of four different toothpastes to remineralize any alterations. The study was performed on 50 human molars, divided in two groups: treated with Opalescence^® Boost and Mirawhite^® Laser Bleaching. Furthermore, each group was divided into five subgroups, a control one and 4 subgroups remineralized with: Mirasensitive^® hap+, Mirawhite^® Gelle?, GC Tooth Mousse? and Mirafluor^® C. The samples were analysed by SEM/3D‐SEM‐micrographs, SEM/EDX‐qualitative analysis and SEM/EDX‐semiquantitative analysis. The microphotographs show that both types of bleaching cause alterations: emphasized perikymata, erosions, loss of interprizmatic substance; the laser treatment is more aggressive and loss of integrity of the enamel is determined by shearing off the enamel rods. In all samples undergoing remineralization deposits were observed, those of toothpastes based on calcium phosphate technologies seem to merge with each other and cover almost the entire surface of the enamel. Loss of integrity and minerals were detected only in the line‐scans of the sample remineralized with GC Tooth Mousse?. The semiquantitative EDX analysis of individual elements in the surface layer of the enamel indicates that during tooth‐bleaching with HP statistically significant loss of Na and Mg occurs, whereas the bleaching in combination with a laser leads to statistically significant loss of Ca and P. The results undoubtedly confirm that teeth whitening procedures lead to enamel alterations. In this context, it must be noted that laser bleaching is more aggressive for dental substances. However, these changes are reversible and can be repaired by application of remineralization toothpastes.     

A preliminary assessment of Landsat TM imagery for mapping vegetation and sediment distribution in the Wash estuary

Abstract

Analysis of Landsat Thematic Mapper (TM) image of 14 May 1984 has shown that such data can be used to survey vegetation and sediment distributions in the intertidal zone of the Wash estuary at a spatial detail comparable with current methods practised by the.Nature Conservancy Council. Multispectral classification of this TM image showed good separation of salt-marsh vegetation communities which had recently been surveyed by the Nature Conservancy Council and for which reliable training data could be taken. The sensitivity of classification performance, using both parametric and non-parametric algorithms, to apparently minor differences in phenology at training site locations demonstrates two requirements for improved salt-marsh classification. They are the need for strict definition of training data and that TM wave bands 2, 3, 4 and 5 provide suitable spectral vectors for classifying intertidal environments.     

Series Solutions of Poisson Equations and Space Charge Theory†

An inverse power aeries solution, dealing with a wide variety of space charge problems, which has been proposed previously, suffers from one drawback. The first coefficient in the expansion is given as the solution of an infinite polynomial and all other coefficients depend on the first one. In this paper we describe a method of obtaining the first coefficient directly from a Poisson Equation of the form ü=g(u) for the case where ∫g(u) du is readily obtainable. That this is often the case physically is shown by applying the theory to several junction and blocking electrode problems both with and without traps.     

ON THE PROBLEM OF REPRESENTATION IN LOCKEAN AND DIALECTICAL BELIEF SYSTEMS: A SYSTEMS APPROACH TO POLICY ANALYSIS

This paper explores the problems that are associated with building a model (representation) of two systems which are central to the field of policy analysis. The systems are the Lockean and Dialectical Inquiring Systems (ISs). Given two or more belief systems, a Lockean IS will attempt to secure maximum agreement between them, whereas a Dialectical IS will attempt to secure maximum disagreement as the basis for forming a policy.