Background: Quality and safety of potato is both cultivar postharvest management dependent. The precise assessment freshness are complex tasks requiring time-consuming, expensive, destructive techniques. Method: Potatoes from three commercial cultivars were stored for 5 months at °C. Color chlorophyll fluorescence recorded, Red-Green-Blue (R-G-B), Red-Green-Near infrared (R-G-NIR) Red-Blue-Near...

Initial destructive experimental studies have demonstrated significant stiffness variations in the damage region and large differences in compression and tension [2]. A quantitative description of the stiffness reduction in an artificial impact damage was demonstrated in [3], employing a non-destructive testing method coupled with an inverse approach. Tensile stiffness distribution of real impa...

Non Destructive Evaluation (NDE) has become an inseparable part of modern society. Be it the field of engineering, technology, or healthcare, NDE is being used right from cradle to tomb to optimize processes, manage quality, predict the life and limit liability avoiding accidents. While NDE science and technology was qualitative during the first half of 20 century, the liberalisation of economi...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare two biochemical markers, which have been previously used to determine the degrees of alveolar bone destruction, in evaluating periodontal disease severity. METHODS The WF6 epitope of chondroitin sulfate (CS) and the alkaline phosphatase (ALP) levels were determined in gingival crevicular fluid (GCF) samples collected from patients with vario...