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Development of bambangan (Mangifera pajang) carbonated drink
Mangifera pajang Kostermans or bambangan is a popular fruit among Sabahan due
to its health and economic values. However, the fruit is not fully commercialized since it is
usually been used as traditional cuisine by local people. Thus, development of bambangan fruit
into carbonated drink was conducted to produce new product concept. The objectives of this
study were to conceptualize, formulate, evaluate consumer acceptance, and determine
physicochemical properties and nutritional composition of the accepted product. Method used
in conceptualising the product was based on questionnaire. The consumer acceptance was
evaluated based on descriptive and affective tests with four product formulations tested. The
physicochemical properties on carbon dioxide volume, colour, pH, total acidity, total soluble
solid (TSS) and viscosity were highlighted, meanwhile nutritional composition on fat, protein,
carbohydrates and energy content were determined. About 77% respondents gave positive
feedback, and 69% respondents decided this product is within their budget. The formulation of
5% bambangan pulp, 70% water, 25% sugar and 0.2% citric acid was highly accepted in
descriptive and affective tests with 4.4 and 6.39 mean scores, respectively. The
physicochemical properties and nutritional composition of the acceptance product were in
optimum value except for colour, total acidity and TSS. Overall, this study showed that the
product has high potential to be commercialized as new product concept, and heritage of
indigenous people can be preserved when this fruit is known regionally
The INCF Digital Atlasing Program: Report on Digital Atlasing Standards in the Rodent Brain
The goal of the INCF Digital Atlasing Program is to provide the vision and direction necessary to make the rapidly growing collection of multidimensional data of the rodent brain (images, gene expression, etc.) widely accessible and usable to the international research community. This Digital Brain Atlasing Standards Task Force was formed in May 2008 to investigate the state of rodent brain digital atlasing, and formulate standards, guidelines, and policy recommendations.

Our first objective has been the preparation of a detailed document that includes the vision and specific description of an infrastructure, systems and methods capable of serving the scientific goals of the community, as well as practical issues for achieving
the goals. This report builds on the 1st INCF Workshop on Mouse and Rat Brain Digital Atlasing Systems (Boline et al., 2007, _Nature Preceedings_, doi:10.1038/npre.2007.1046.1) and includes a more detailed analysis of both the current state and desired state of digital atlasing along with specific recommendations for achieving these goals
BlogForever D2.4: Weblog spider prototype and associated methodology
The purpose of this document is to present the evaluation of different solutions for capturing blogs, established methodology and to describe the developed blog spider prototype
User Applications Driven by the Community Contribution Framework MPContribs in the Materials Project
This work discusses how the MPContribs framework in the Materials Project
(MP) allows user-contributed data to be shown and analyzed alongside the core
MP database. The Materials Project is a searchable database of electronic
structure properties of over 65,000 bulk solid materials that is accessible
through a web-based science-gateway. We describe the motivation for enabling
user contributions to the materials data and present the framework's features
and challenges in the context of two real applications. These use-cases
illustrate how scientific collaborations can build applications with their own
"user-contributed" data using MPContribs. The Nanoporous Materials Explorer
application provides a unique search interface to a novel dataset of hundreds
of thousands of materials, each with tables of user-contributed values related
to material adsorption and density at varying temperature and pressure. The
Unified Theoretical and Experimental x-ray Spectroscopy application discusses a
full workflow for the association, dissemination and combined analyses of
experimental data from the Advanced Light Source with MP's theoretical core
data, using MPContribs tools for data formatting, management and exploration.
The capabilities being developed for these collaborations are serving as the
model for how new materials data can be incorporated into the Materials Project
website with minimal staff overhead while giving powerful tools for data search
and display to the user community.Comment: 12 pages, 5 figures, Proceedings of 10th Gateway Computing
Environments Workshop (2015), to be published in "Concurrency in Computation:
Practice and Experience
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