the physico-chemical characteristics and physiological qualities of palm (phoenix dactylifera) fruit strongly depend on the storage conditions. storage environment and packaging type are the factors most influencing on the quality of dates during their storage. date fruits were packed within an aerobic atmosphere, vacuumed in pa/pe pouches and stored at different temperatures (-20, 4, 25 and 40...

pose changes, the distribution of skin colors in color planes is very employ color histogram based approaches to skin color segmentation. sis of skin colors directly in the RGB color space. Our idea is simple observation that skin colors of a person in the RGB color space are linear fashion, we apply PCA techniques to RGB values of skin colors s collected online. The axis along which the data i...

The effects of sample thickness (0.5, 1.0, and 1.5 cm), background color (white, pink, green, and gray), and illuminant (D-65, A, and F) on color measurement of broiler tissue were determined. Color values from the anterior portions of the two Pectoralis superficialis muscles were not different from each other, allowing one to be used as a control for the other. Light penetrated the thinner pos...

Color of sun-dried tomato is an important quality criteria and color stability of sun dried tomatoes is affected by storage conditions such as temperature, time and packaging type. The objective of this study was to investigate the effects storage time, storage temperature and packaging type on color stability of sun-dried tomatoes by using factorial experimental design. In this study, the 2 3 ...

Grain-finished, high-percentage Charolais steers (n = 36) were selected for uniformity. Immediately after jugular vein exsanguination, 27 steers were infused at 10% of live weight via the carotid artery with a solution developed by MPSC, Inc. (St. Paul, MN) consisting of 98.52% water, 0.97% saccharides, 0.23% sodium chloride, and 0.28% phosphate blend plus either 500 ppm vitamin C (MPSC+C; n = ...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of lipid oxidation in peanut (Arachis hypogaea L) seeds which were heated by microwave irradiation. Peanut seeds were exposed to microwaves for 0, 2.5, 3.5, 4.5, 5.5 and 6.5 min at frequency of 2,450 MHz, 450 watts microwave oven. The quality characteristics of peanut seed (moisture content and color values), extracted peanut oils (PV, TB...

This study was focused on the multicolor space which provides a better specification of the color and size of the apple in an image. In the study, a real-time machine vision system classifying apples into four categories with respect to color and size was designed. In the analysis, different color spaces were used. As a result, 97% identification success for the red fields of the apple was obta...

We present some variations affecting the association measure and thresholding on a technique for learning Selectional Restrictions from on-line corpora. It uses a wide-coverage noun taxonomy and a statistical measure to generalize the appropriate semantic classes. Evaluation measures for the Selectional Restrictions learning task are discussed. Finally, an experimental evaluation of these varia...

A cone chromaticity space, a transform of a colorimetric specification system into coordinates that represent cone excitations, does not provide color appearance information. Boynton and Olson (Color Research and Application 12, 94-105, 1987) gathered color naming for the 424 Optical Society of America Uniform Color Scales (OSA-UCS) color samples. Here, a computational algorithm was developed t...

PURPOSE Oral rinses are widely used to promote periodontal health with provisional restorations during the interim period. The aim of this study was to compare the discoloration of provisional restoration materials with different oral rinses. MATERIAL AND METHODS A total of 140 disc-shaped specimens (shade A2) (10 mm x 2 mm) were prepared from one PMMA-based (TemDent Classic(®)) and three dif...