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Recent Application of Probiotics in Food and Agricultural Science

Probiotic foods are a group of functional foods with growing market shares and large commercial interest [1]. Probiotics are live microorganisms which when administered in adequate amounts confer a beneficial health benefit on the host [2]. Probiotics have been used for centuries in fermented dairy products. However, the potential applications of probiotics in nondairy food products and agricul...

A Spotlight on Spotlight

In this paper, we have made an attempt to take a look under the hood of Spotlight and understand some of the following questions amongst others: • How well-integrated is Spotlight with the file system? • How reliable is the interface between Spotlight and the file system? • Is live update a myth or a reality under heavy file system activity? Based on our experiments, it seems that Spotlight is ...

Classification of Agricultural Sites using Time-series of High- resolution dual-polarisation TerraSAR – X Spotlight images

Increasing demands for lasting and environmentally conscious use of natural resources together with a cost effective and restrictive use of fertilizers and pesticides require the employment of new technologies in agriculture. The preliminary results presented here consist in the automatic land use classification of agricultural fields based on multi-temporal TerraSAR-X images in dual polarizati...

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