In the light of increasing public pressure to minimise environmental pollution, green cane harvesting will probably soon become the norm worldwide. The effects of delivering and crushing green cane, which contains all of the associated extraneous matter, on the cost of production and the quality of sugar are well known. In consequence of these effects the different options for dry cleaning the ...

Douglas J. Kelly*†||, Sean C. Warren*†, Sunil Kumar*, João L. Lagarto*, Benjamin T. Dyer*‡, Anca Margineanu*, Eric W.-F. Lam, Chris Dunsby*¶ and Paul M. W. French* *Photonics Group, Department of Physics, Imperial College London South Kensington Campus, London, SW7 2AZ, UK Institute of Chemical Biology, Department of Chemistry Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus London, SW7 2AZ, UK...

Reversible thermal injury to the esophagus from drinking boiling-hot liquids has been reported to produce alternating pink and white linear bands that impart a "candy-cane" appearance to the inner esophageal wall. This injury has been associated with chest pain, dysphagia, odynophagia, and abdominal pain. We describe a case of candy-cane esophagus caused by thermal injury from smoking freebase ...

We study a nonlocal reaction-diffusion-mutation equation modeling the spreading of a cane toads population structured by a phenotypical trait responsible for the spatial diffusion rate. When the trait space is bounded, the cane toads equation admits traveling wave solutions [7]. Here, we prove a Bramson type spreading result: the lag between the position of solutions with localized initial data...

The study was designed to evaluate the use of low concentrations of separan flocculent (Less than 3 ppm) on physicochemical properties of sugar cane juice. Colour, pH, purity, turbidity, pol, brix, reducing sugars tannins and polyphenols of crushed cane (green and burned) juice, mixed juice and clarified juice were studied. The results showed that pol, brix, reducing sugar and turbidity are hig...

Current methods for quality control of sugar cane are performed in extracted juice using several methodologies, often requiring appreciable time and chemicals (eventually toxic), making the methods not green and expensive. The present study proposes the use of X-ray spectrometry together with chemometric methods as an innovative and alternative technique for determining sugar cane quality param...

In the present work, we investigated whether an auditory peripersonal space exists around the hand and whether such a space might be extended by a brief tool-use experience or by long-term experience using a tool in everyday life. To this end, we studied audio-tactile integration in the space around the hand and in far space, in blind subjects who regularly used a cane to navigate and in sighte...

Network embedding (NE) is playing a critical role in network analysis, due to its ability to represent vertices with efficient low-dimensional embedding vectors. However, existing NE models aim to learn a fixed context-free embedding for each vertex and neglect the diverse roles when interacting with other vertices. In this paper, we assume that one vertex usually shows different aspects when i...

Deteriorated sugarcane can lead to processing difficulties in the factory and to high levels of unwanted compounds in the raw sugar, with some extending to refined sugar. A high level of dextran is one of the more serious processing problems in a sugar factory that is associated with deteriorated cane. The development of a rapid test to measure an indicator of the ‘amount of deterioration’ coul...

We present the design, implementation, and early results of ioCane, a mobility aid for blind cane users that uses detachable cane-mounted ultrasonic sensors connected to a circuit board to send contextual data wirelessly to an Android phone application. The system uses the built-in mobile phone modalities of vibrations and chimes to alert the user to object height and proximity. We believe this...