Meat tenderness is a concern today in the beef cattle industry, and it will become an even greater concern in the future. • Tenderness is a complex issue, and it is difficult to predict tenderness after cooking by examining raw beef or carcass beef. Unfortunately, tenderness must be evaluated at the carcass level to be a useful tool in the industry. • A star-shaped probe was attached to an Inst...

This review article describes the synthesis, properties and some applications of star-shaped polymers. The arms constituted of homoor co-polymers of different polymers are also reviewed. Methods of synthesis of various types of starshaped polymers, including “arm first” and “core first” procedures, is given as an introduction along with some details. Then, the synthesis of star polymers (includ...

This paper considers the problem of extraction of shape information from noise corrupted images acquired from a resolution limited imaging instrument, a problem that is closely related to shape estimation and segmentation. The problem is formulated as estimation of coefficients in a basis expansion of the boundary of 2D and 3D star–shaped objects. We derive an expression for the Fisher informat...

The encapsulation behaviour and the resulting transition metal ion sensing capabilities of a 5-arm star-shaped polymer bearing terpyridine ligands on its periphery are described.

We provide a rigorous Bayesian formulation of the EIT problem in an infinite dimensional setting, leading to well-posedness in the Hellinger metric with respect to the data. We focus particularly on the reconstruction of binary fields where the interface between different media is the primary unknown. We consider three different prior models – log-Gaussian, star-shaped and level set. Numerical ...

The key notion to understand the left determined Olschok model category of star-shaped Cattani-Sassone transition systems is past-similarity. Two states are past-similar if they have homotopic pasts. An object is fibrant if and only if the set of transitions is closed under past-similarity. A map is a weak equivalence if and only if it induces an isomorphism after the identification of all past...