the effects of chemical and physical treatments on the storage life of bitter lemons in jiroft, kerman province, were investigated. after harvesting, the lemons were treated by curing, fungicide, waxed paper, shrink wrap or using a combination of these treatments. the samples were stored in standard citrus fruit boxes for three months at 85-90% relative humidity at a temperature of 3°c. once a ...

In 1], EEros and Chou introduce a two-stage universal transform code called the weighted universal transform code (WUTC). By replacing JPEG's single, non-optimal transform code with a collection of optimal transform codes, the WUTC achieves signiicant performance gains over JPEG. The computational and storage costs of that performance gain are eeectively the computation and storage required to ...

More than three millions research articles have been written about proteins and Protein-Protein Interactions (PPI). The present work describes a plausible architecture and some preliminary experiments of our Protein-Protein Interaction Information Extraction system, PPIEs. The promising results obtained suggest that the approach deserves further efforts. Some important aspects that need to be i...

Tagging has rapidly become a popular way to annotate the content on social network sites. Tags describe the contents of the resource or provide additional contextual and semantical information to make the content more easily browsable and discoverable by others. However, as tagging is not constrained by a controlled vocabulary and a certain number of resources have no comments, tags tend to be ...

Despite recent increases in the processing power of handheld computers, often called palmtops, the devices continue to function primarily as personal information organizers. We believe adding mass storage to handheld computers will expand the usefulness of the devices. We propose a storage hierarchy, involving a hard disk and large software controlled flash memory cache, that lowers the power c...

To elucidate the mechanisms contributing to fruit responses to senescence and stressful environmental stimuli under low temperature (LT) and controlled atmosphere (CA) storage, a label-free quantitative proteomic investigation was conducted in strawberry (Fragaria ananassa, Duch. cv. 'Akihime'). Postharvest volatile compounds were characterized following storage under different conditions. The ...

The prevalance of digital information raised issues regarding the suitability of conventional library tools for organizing information. The multi-dimensionality of digital resources requires a more versatile and flexible representation to accommodate intelligent information representation and retrieval. Ontologies are used as a solution to such issues in many application domains, mainly due to ...

This paper builds on the results from our earlier research on the design of electricity markets that have to accommodate the uncertainty associated with high penetrations of renewable sources of energy. The key results show that 1) distributed storage (deferrable demand) is an effective way to reduce total system costs, 2) a simple market structure for energy allows aggregators to meet their cu...

We report experimental evidence that light storage, understood as the controlled release of a light pulse by an atomic sample dependent on the past presence of a writing pulse, is not restricted to small-group-velocity media but can also occur in a negative-group-velocity medium. We present a numerical modeling in close agreement with our observations and a simple physical picture applicable to...

This study introduces a field oriented controlled (FOC) induction machine based flywheel energy storage (FES) system fed from a 20kHz ac link and Pulse Density Modulated (PDM) Converter. The feasibilty of FES system is investigated both in software and hardware and is demonstrated succesfully in both cases. The investigated system offers a good potential as a temporary energy storage system for...