Penicillium brocae is a new monoverticillate species isolated from coffee berry borers collected at coffee plantations in Mexico near Cacahoatán, Chiapas, and from borers reared on artificial diets at ECOSUR laboratory facilities in Tapachula, Chiapas. Phenotypically, it is in Penicillium series Implicatum, but because it does not conform to known species we have described it as new. ITS and la...

Berry phase was originally defined for systems whose states are separated by finite energy gaps. One might naively expect that a system without a gap cannot have a Berry phase. Despite this we ask whether a Berry phase can be observed in a system which has a continuous spectrum because its coupling to the environment has broadened its energy levels. We find that, contrary to the above naive exp...

In the context of vineyard and wine process management, producers are looking for novel tools to estimate the growth stage and potential quality of vine grapes. Several studies show the importance of the berry size as a growing and quality indicator. This paper proposes an image processing method to estimate the berry size of vine grapes by image acquisition in the field. The goal is to recover...

Polyphenols contained within plant tissues are consumed in significant amounts in the human diet and are known to influence a number of biological processes. This study investigated the effects of an anthocyanin-rich berry-extract on glucose uptake by human intestinal Caco-2 cells. Acute exposure (15 min) to berry extract (0.125%, w/v) significantly decreased both sodium-dependent (Total uptake...

The coffee berry borer, Hypothenemus hampei Ferrari (Coleoptera: Scolytidae), is widely considered to be the most devastating pest of coffee. Endemic to Central Africa, the coffee berry borer can now be found in most coffee growing regions throughout the world (Le Pelley 1968). Annual losses caused by this insect have been estimated at over $500 million annually (P. Baker, CABI Bioscience, UK; ...

The effect of the Coriolis force on a moving system can be described as a holonomy with respect to a particular connection known as the Cartan–Hannay–Berry connection. The resulting geometric phase is called the Hannay–Berry phase, and it provides direct information about the imposed motion on the system. This approach assumes that the imposed motion is adiabatic. In this paper we describe the ...

Ratios Running head: Berry-Esseen Theorem for Character Ratios Submitted 3/9/05; Revised 8/6/06 By Jason Fulman Department of Mathematics, University of Southern California Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA [email protected] Abstract: Bolthausen used a variation of Stein’s method to give an inductive proof of the Berry-Esseen theorem for sums of independent, identically distributed random variables. We m...

The purpose of this study was to analyze polyphenol rich beverages (vitamin enhanced waters (VEWs), fruit juices and berry juices) to determine free polyphenol concentrations and free polyphenols per Calorie based on a serving size. The Folin-Ciocalteu reagent was used in a colorimetric assay based on a catechin standard. Fruit and berry juices contained, on average, more than eight-times the c...

We design an adiabatic quantum algorithm for the counting problem, i.e., approximating the proportion, α, of the marked items in a given database. As the quantum system undergoes a designed cyclic adiabatic evolution, it acquires a Berry phase 2πα. By estimating the Berry phase, we can approximate α, and solve the problem. For an error bound ǫ, the algorithm can solve the problem with cost of o...