Storage time of nut spreads using flash gas chromatography E-nose combined with multivariate data analysis

The quality assessment, in terms of lipid oxidative status, of food products stored in the long-term is of great importance, especially those with a high lipid content. Specifically, companies working in this sector need feasible, simple, and fast techniques that are suitable for quality or process control. Herein, a fingerprinting approach, based on headspace analysis carried out by flash gas chromatography electronic nose (FGC E-nose) and multivariate data analysis was applied to pistachio and gianduja spreads. These samples, differently packaged, were stored in climatic chambers at 40 °C for 180 days and their headspace fraction was analyzed periodically for a total of 15 sampling times. Principal component analysis showed a clear separation according to the packaging type for both pistachio and gianduja samples. Partial least squares regression models were developed to predict the storage time considering the aggregated data (R2 up to 0.985, RMSEP = 6.16 days) or separately (R2 up to 0.989, RMSEP = 5.71 days). Based on the obtained residual prediction deviation (RPD from 4.4 to 8.5 in prediction), the models can be considered suitable for use in quality control in an industrial environment

Qualitative Analysis of Age and Brand of Unblended Brandy by Electronic Nose

Part 1: GIS, GPS, RS and Precision FarmingInternational audienceThis paper reports the capability of electronic nose based on gas chromatograph (GC-Flash) in age identification and brand classification of brandy. Three different kinds of brandies by the static headspace sampling for the injection of the volatile compounds were analyzed. The data were disposed by multivariate data processing based on principal component analysis (PCA) and cluster analysis (CA). The results show that PCA could identify the age as PC1 represented the raw information of age well; PCA on small difference ages of the samples could classify the brands of the samples. The CA would cluster samples by age through its analysis on the three different kinds of brandies respectively; The CA on all samples indicated that significant differences existed among different brands with age under 20 years and clustering process performed firstly in each group by age information and then clustering progressively by age among all groups. GC-Flash electronic nose can be applied to identify the brand and age of different brandies

Food science sourcebook

2 v. : ill. ; 26 cm2nd edition.Rev. ed. of: Source book for food scientists. c1978"An AVI book."Pt. 1. Terms and descriptions -- pt. 2. Food composition,properties, and general data

The Music Sound

A guide for music: compositions, events, forms, genres, groups, history, industry, instruments, language, live music, musicians, songs, musicology, techniques, terminology , theory, music video. Music is a human activity which involves structured and audible sounds, which is used for artistic or aesthetic, entertainment, or ceremonial purposes. The traditional or classical European aspects of music often listed are those elements given primacy in European-influenced classical music: melody, harmony, rhythm, tone color/timbre, and form. A more comprehensive list is given by stating the aspects of sound: pitch, timbre, loudness, and duration. Common terms used to discuss particular pieces include melody, which is a succession of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord, which is a simultaneity of notes heard as some sort of unit; chord progression, which is a succession of chords (simultaneity succession); harmony, which is the relationship between two or more pitches; counterpoint, which is the simultaneity and organization of different melodies; and rhythm, which is the organization of the durational aspects of music

World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering- Architecture- Urban Planning symposium

We would like to express our sincere gratitude to all 900+ submissions by 600+ participants of WMCAUS 2018 from 60+ different countries all over the world for their interests and contributions in WMCAUS 2018. We wish you enjoy the World Multidisciplinary Civil Engineering-Architecture-Urban Planning Symposium – WMCAUS 2018 and have a pleasant stay in the city of romance Prague. We hope to see you again during next event WMCAUS 2019 which will be held in Prague (Czech Republic) approximately in the similar period

Maritime expressions:a corpus based exploration of maritime metaphors

This study uses a purpose-built corpus to explore the linguistic legacy of Britain’s maritime history found in the form of hundreds of specialised ‘Maritime Expressions’ (MEs), such as TAKEN ABACK, ANCHOR and ALOOF, that permeate modern English. Selecting just those expressions commencing with ’A’, it analyses 61 MEs in detail and describes the processes by which these technical expressions, from a highly specialised occupational discourse community, have made their way into modern English. The Maritime Text Corpus (MTC) comprises 8.8 million words, encompassing a range of text types and registers, selected to provide a cross-section of ‘maritime’ writing. It is analysed using WordSmith analytical software (Scott, 2010), with the 100 million-word British National Corpus (BNC) as a reference corpus. Using the MTC, a list of keywords of specific salience within the maritime discourse has been compiled and, using frequency data, concordances and collocations, these MEs are described in detail and their use and form in the MTC and the BNC is compared. The study examines the transformation from ME to figurative use in the general discourse, in terms of form and metaphoricity. MEs are classified according to their metaphorical strength and their transference from maritime usage into new registers and domains such as those of business, politics, sports and reportage etc. A revised model of metaphoricity is developed and a new category of figurative expression, the ‘resonator’, is proposed. Additionally, developing the work of Lakov and Johnson, Kovesces and others on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), a number of Maritime Conceptual Metaphors are identified and their cultural significance is discussed