Comparison of residual sugar and firming characteristics of white pan bread made by sponge dough and short-time dough processes

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Effective Dissolution of Biomass in Ionic Liquids by Irradiation of Non-Thermal Atmospheric Pressure Plasma

Biomass was dissolved in ionic liquids under non-thermal atmospheric pressure plasma irradiation. On plasma irradiation, the amount of dissolved biomass in the ionic liquids increased from 15 to 29mg for bagasse and from 26 to 36mg for Japanese cedar. The high solubility was attributed to the deconstruction of the lignin network by active chemical species generated by the plasma. Selective extraction of cellulose from biomass was observed under plasma irradiation. © CSIRO 2017.This study was also partly supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. | Japan Society for the Promotion of Science 日本学術振興

Health Checkup and Telemedical Intervention Program for Preventive Medicine in Developing Countries: Verification Study

Background: The prevalence of non-communicable diseases is increasing throughout the world, including developing countries. / Objective: The intent was to conduct a study of a preventive medical service in a developing country, combining eHealth checkups and teleconsultation as well as assess stratification rules and the short-term effects of intervention. / Methods: We developed an eHealth system that comprises a set of sensor devices in an attaché case, a data transmission system linked to a mobile network, and a data management application. We provided eHealth checkups for the populations of five villages and the employees of five factories/offices in Bangladesh. Individual health condition was automatically categorized into four grades based on international diagnostic standards: green (healthy), yellow (caution), orange (affected), and red (emergent). We provided teleconsultation for orange- and red-grade subjects and we provided teleprescription for these subjects as required. / Results: The first checkup was provided to 16,741 subjects. After one year, 2361 subjects participated in the second checkup and the systolic blood pressure of these subjects was significantly decreased from an average of 121 mmHg to an average of 116 mmHg (P<.001). Based on these results, we propose a cost-effective method using a machine learning technique (random forest method) using the medical interview, subject profiles, and checkup results as predictor to avoid costly measurements of blood sugar, to ensure sustainability of the program in developing countries. / Conclusions: The results of this study demonstrate the benefits of an eHealth checkup and teleconsultation program as an effective health care system in developing countries

Phenomenological constraints on SUSY SU(5) GUTs with non-universal gaugino masses

We study phenomenological aspects of supersymmetric SU(5) grand unified theories with non-universal gaugino masses. For large tan beta, we investigate constraints from the requirement of successful electroweak symmetry breaking, the positivity of stau mass squared and the b to s gamma decay rate. In the allowed region, the nature of the lightest supersymmetric particle is determined. Examples of mass spectra are given. We also calculate loop corrections to the bottom mass due to superpartners.Comment: 10 pages, 2 figures (8 eps files), uses REVTeX. Replaced to match the version to be published in PRD: minor corrections and addition

Open-source Software for Developing Anthropomorphic Spoken Dialog Agents

An architecture for highly-interactive human-like spoken-dialog agent is discussed in this paper. In order to easily integrate the modules of different characteristics including speech recognizer, speech synthesizer, facial-image synthesizer and dialog controller, each module is modeled as a virtual machine that has a simple common interface and is connected to each other through a broker (communication manager). The agent system under development is supported by the IPA and it will be publicly available as a software toolkit this year

Polarized Emission of Wholly Aromatic Bio-Based Copolyesters of a Liquid Crystalline Nature

A novel thermotropic liquid crystalline polymers poly{3-benzylidene amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (3,4-BAHBA)-co-trans-4-hydroxycinnamic acid (4HCA: trans-coumaric acid)} (Poly(3,4-BAHBA-co-4HCA)), was synthesized by the thermal polycondensation of 4HCA and 3,4-BAHBA, which was synthesized by a reaction of 3-amino-4-hydroxybenzoic acid (3,4-AHBA) with benzaldehyde. When the 4HCA compositions of Poly(3,4-BAHBA-co-4HCA)s were above 55 mol%, the copolymers showed a nematic, liquid crystalline phase. Differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) measurements of the copolymers showed a high glass transition temperature of more than 100 °C, sufficient for use in engineering plastics. Furthermore, the copolymers showed photoluminescence in an N-methylpyrrolidone (NMP) solution under ultraviolet (UV) light with a wavelength of 365 nm. Oriented film of Poly(3,4-BAHBA-co-4HCA) with a 4HCA composition of 75 mol% emitted polarized light, which was confirmed by fluorescent spectroscopy equipped with parallel and crossed polarizers

Effects of Incorporating Β-Tricalcium Phosphate with Reaction Sintering into Mg-Based Composites on Degradation and Mechanical Integrity

For applications of biodegradable load-bearing implants, we incorporated 10 or 20 vol% β-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) into Mg-based composites through reaction sintering in the spark plasma sintering process. We previously reported that the evolved microstructure enhanced mechanical properties before degradation and modified in vitro degradation behaviors. In this study, immersion tests in physiological saline and subsequent compression tests in the air were conducted to investigate the effects of degradation on mechanical integrity. In the immersion tests, Mg/β-TCP composites showed no visible disintegration of sintered particles due to interfacial strength enhanced by reaction sintering. Local corrosion was observed in the Mg matrix adjacent to the reaction products. In addition, Mg/10% β-TCP showed dense degradation products of Mg(OH)2 compared with Mg and Mg/20% β-TCP. Those degradation behaviors resulted in reducing the effective load transfer from the Mg matrix to the reaction products as reinforcement. The yield strength decreased by 18.1% for Mg/10% β-TCP and 70.9% for Mg/20% β-TCP after six days of immersion. These results can give a broad view of designing spark plasma sintered Mg/bioceramic composites with the consideration of mechanical integrity

Flux Landscape with enhanced symmetry not on SL(2, ℤ) elliptic points

Abstract We study structures of solutions for SUSY Minkowski F-term equations on two toroidal orientifolds with h 2,1 = 1. Following our previous study [1], with fixed upper bounds of a flux D3-brane charge N flux, we obtain a whole Landscape and a distribution of degeneracies of physically-distinct solutions for each case. In contrast to our previous study, we consider a non-factorizable toroidal orientifold and its Landscape on which SL(2, ℤ) is violated into a certain congruence subgroup, as it had been known in past studies. We find that it is not the entire duality group that a complex-structure modulus U enjoys but its outer semi-direct product with a “scaling” outer automorphism group. The fundamental region is enlarged to include the |U| < 1 region. In addition, we find that high degeneracy is observed at an elliptic point, not of SL(2, Z) but of the outer automorphism group. Furthermore, ℤ2-enhanced symmetry is realized on the elliptic point. The outer automorphism group is exceptional in the sense that it is consistent with a symplectic basis transformation of background three-cycles, as opposed to the outer automorphism group of SL(2, ℤ). We also compare this result with Landscape of another factorizable toroidal orientifold