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Some initial results and observations from a series of trials within the Ofcom TV White Spaces pilot
Storage stability of encapsulated barberry's anthocyanin and its application in jelly formulation
The barberry (Berberis vulgaris) extract which is a rich source of anthocyanin was used for encapsulation with three different wall materials i.e., combination of gum Arabic and maltodextrin (GA+MD), combination of maltodextrin and gelatin (MD+GE) and maltodextrin (MD) by spray drying process. In this context, the storage stability of encapsulated pigments was investigated under four storage temperatures (4, 25, 35 and 42 °C), four relative humidities (20, 30, 40 and 50%) and light illumination until 90 days. All wall materials largely increased the half-life of the encapsulated pigments during storage compared with non-encapsulated anthocyanins. MD+GA showed the highest encapsulation efficiency, lower degradation rate in all temperatures and was found as the most effective wall material in stabilizing the pigments. The encapsulated pigments were utilized in coloring jelly powder as an alternative of synthetic color. Sensory evaluation were run to identify best encapsulated natural color concentration in jelly powder formulation according to acceptability by consumers. A jelly with added 7% encapsulated color had higher scores than the commercial jelly containing synthetic color for all the sensory attributes evaluated. Physicochemical properties of produced jelly including moisture content, hygroscopicity, acidity, ash content and texture were not significantly different with control sample while, syneresis and solubility of the samples prepared with encapsulated color was significantly reduced. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
P-Wave Holographic Insulator/Superconductor Phase Transition
Using a five dimensional AdS soliton in an Einstein-Yang-Mills theory with
SU(2) gauge group we study p-wave holographic insulator/superconductor phase
transition. To explore the phase structure of the model we consider the system
in the probe limit as well as fully back reacted solutions. We will also study
zero temperature limit of the p-wave holographic superconductor in four
dimensions.Comment: Latex,18 pages,7 figures, v2: Typos correction, v3: minor changes
added, and clarifications mad
Fermions in non-relativistic AdS/CFT correspondence
We extend the non-relativistic AdS/CFT correspondence to the fermionic
fields. In particular we study the two point function of a fermionic operator
in non-relativistic CFTs by making use of a massive fermion propagating in
geometries with Schrodinger group isometry. Although the boundary of the
geometries with Schrodinger group isometry differ from that in AdS geometries
where the dictionary of AdS/CFT is established, using the general procedure of
AdS/CFT correspondence, we see that the resultant two point function has the
expected form for fermionic operators in non-relativistic CFTs, though a
non-trivial regularization may be needed.Comment: 12 pages,Latex file; V2: typos corrected, refs adde
Exploiting higher order smoothness in derivative-free optimization and continuous bandits
We study the problem of zero-order optimization of a strongly convex function. The goal is to find the minimizer of the function by a sequential exploration of its values, under measurement noise. We study the impact of higher order smoothness properties of the function on the optimization error and on the cumulative regret. To solve this problem we consider a randomized approximation of the projected gradient descent algorithm. The gradient is estimated by a randomized procedure involving two function evaluations and a smoothing kernel. We derive upper bounds for this algorithm both in the constrained and unconstrained settings and prove minimax lower bounds for any sequential search method. Our results imply that the zero-order algorithm is nearly optimal in terms of sample complexity and the problem parameters. Based on this algorithm, we also propose an estimator of the minimum value of the function achieving almost sharp oracle behavior. We compare our results with the state-of-the-art, highlighting a number of key improvements
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