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Technical note: Characterization of key volatile odorants in rabbit meat using gas chromatography mass spectrometry with simultaneous distillation extraction
[EN] This study explored the key volatile compounds in both male and female rabbit meat. Simultaneous distillation extraction with dichloromethane was adopted to extract the volatile compounds in Hyla rabbit meat. A total of 35 volatile compounds were identified by gas chromatographyâmass spectrometry and quantified with 2, 4, 6-thimethylpyridine as internal standard. Seventeen volatile aldehydes, 4 alcohols, 2 ketones, 2 acids, 1 heterocyclic compound, 2 alkanes and 7 esters were detected. Hexanal, heptanal, octanal, nonanal, (E, E)-2, 4-decadienal, 1-octen-3-ol and (Z)-2-decenal were the key odorant compounds, with high relative odour activity value. Furthermore, the concentration of volatile compounds in male rabbit meat was higher than that in female rabbit meat.This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (31671787), the Chinese
Rabbit Industry System of Education Ministry (100030-40305411) and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
(XDJK2014D042).Xie, Y.; He, Z.; Zhang, E.; Li, H. (2016). Technical note: Characterization of key volatile odorants in rabbit meat using gas chromatography mass spectrometry with simultaneous distillation extraction. World Rabbit Science. 24(4):313-320. https://doi.org/10.4995/wrs.2016.4464SWORD31332024
CP-odd nucleon potential
The P-odd and CP-odd nucleon potential for different models of CP violation in the one-meson exchange approximation is studied. It is shown that the main contribution is due to the Ï-meson exhcange which leads to a simple one-parameter CP-odd nucleon potential
Magnetic Properties of Scalar Particles --The Scalar Aharonov-Casher Effect and Supersymmetry
The original topological Aharonov-Casher (AC) effect is due to the
interaction of the anomalous magnetic dipole moment (MDM) with certain
configurations of electric field. Naively one would not expect an AC effect for
a scalar particle for which no anomalous MDM can be defined in the usual sense.
In this letter we study the AC effect in supersymmetric systems. In this
framework there is the possibility of deducing the AC effect of a scalar
particle from the corresponding effect for a spinor particle. In 3+1 dimensions
such a connection is not possible because the anomalous MDM is zero if
supersymmetry is an exact symmetry. However, in 2+1 dimensions it is possible
to have an anomalous MDM even with exact supersymmetry.
Having demonstrated the relationship between the spinor and the scalar MDM,
we proceed to show that the scalar AC effect is uniquely defined. We then
compute the anomalous MDM at the one loop level, showing how the scalar form
arises in 2+1 dimensions from the coupling of the scalar to spinors. This model
shows how an AC effect for a scalar can be generated for non-supersymmetric
theories, and we construct such a model to illustrate the mechanism.Comment: RevTex 13 pages including one Figure. New Discussions adde
Probing Heavy Higgs Boson Models with a TeV Linear Collider
The last years have seen a great development in our understanding of particle
physics at the weak scale. Precision electroweak observables have played a key
role in this process and their values are consistent, within the Standard Model
interpretation, with a light Higgs boson with mass lower than about 200 GeV. If
new physics were responsible for the mechanism of electroweak symmetry
breaking, there would, quite generally, be modifications to this prediction
induced by the non-standard contributions to the precision electroweak
observables. In this article, we analyze the experimental signatures of a heavy
Higgs boson at linear colliders. We show that a linear collider, with center of
mass energy \sqrt{s} <= 1 TeV, would be very useful to probe the basic
ingredients of well motivated heavy Higgs boson models: a relatively heavy
SM-like Higgs, together with either extra scalar or fermionic degrees of
freedom, or with the mixing of the third generation quarks with non-standard
heavy quark modes.Comment: 21 page
Terpene synthases in cucumber (<i>Cucumis sativus</i>) and their contribution to herbivore-induced volatile terpenoid emission
Terpenoids play important roles in flavour, pollinator attraction and defence of plants. In cucumber (Cucumis sativus) they are important components of the herbivoreâinduced plant volatile blend that attracts natural enemies of herbivores. We annotated the cucumber TERPENE SYNTHASE gene (CsTPS) family and characterized their involvement in the response towards herbivores with different feeding guilds using a combined molecular and biochemical approach. Transcripts of multiple CsTPS genes were upregulated in leaves upon herbivory and the products generated by the expressed proteins match the terpenoids recorded in the volatile blend released by herbivoreâdamaged leaves. Spatial and temporal analysis of the promoter activity of CsTPS genes showed that cell contentâfeeding spider mites (Tetranychus urticae) and thrips (Frankliniella occidentalis) induced promoter activity of CsTPS9 and CsTPS19 within hours after initiation of infestation, while phloemâfeeding aphids (Myzus persicae) induced CsTPS2 promoter activity. Our findings offer detailed insights into the involvement of the TPS gene family in the dynamics and fineâtuning of the emission of herbivoreâinduced plant volatiles in cucumber, and open a new avenue to understand molecular mechanisms that affect plantâherbivore interactions
Inconsistency of QED in the Presence of Dirac Monopoles
A precise formulation of local gauge invariance in QED is presented,
which clearly shows that the gauge coupling associated with the unphysical
longitudinal photon field is non-observable and actually has an arbitrary
value. We then re-examine the Dirac quantization condition and find that its
derivation involves solely the unphysical longitudinal coupling. Hence an
inconsistency inevitably arises in the presence of Dirac monopoles and this can
be considered as a theoretical evidence against their existence. An
alternative, independent proof of this conclusion is also presented.Comment: Extended and combined version, refinements added; 20 LaTex pages,
Published in Z. Phys. C65, pp.175-18
Flavor symmetry analysis of charmless B --> VP decays
Based upon flavor SU(3) symmetry, we perform global fits to charmless
B decays into one pseudoscalar meson and one vector meson in the final
states. We consider different symmetry breaking schemes and find that the one
implied by na{\"i}ve factorization is slightly favored over the exact symmetry
case. The vertex of the unitarity triangle (UT)
constrained by our fits is consistent with other methods within errors. We have
found large color-suppressed, electroweak penguin and singlet penguin
amplitudes when the spectator quark ends up in the final-state vector meson.
Nontrivial relative strong phases are also required to explain the data. The
best-fit parameters are used to compute branching ratio and CP asymmetry
observables in all of the decay modes, particularly those in the decays
to be measured at the Tevatron and LHC experiments.Comment: 23 pages and 2 plots; updated with ICHEP'08 data and expanded in
discussions and reference
Rational bidding using reinforcement learning: an application in automated resource allocation
The application of autonomous agents by the provisioning and usage of computational resources is an attractive research field. Various methods and technologies in the area of artificial intelligence, statistics and economics are playing together to achieve i) autonomic resource provisioning and usage of computational resources, to invent ii) competitive bidding strategies for widely used market mechanisms and to iii) incentivize consumers and providers to use such market-based systems.
The contributions of the paper are threefold. First, we present a framework for supporting consumers and providers in technical and economic preference elicitation and the generation of bids. Secondly, we introduce a consumer-side reinforcement learning bidding strategy which enables rational behavior by the generation and selection of bids. Thirdly, we evaluate and compare this bidding strategy against a truth-telling bidding strategy for two kinds of market mechanisms â one centralized and one decentralized
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