Combinatorial enzyme technology was applied for the conversion of wheat insoluble arabinoxylan to oligosaccharide structural variants. The digestive products were fractionated by Bio-Gel P4 column and screened bioactivity. One fraction pool observed exhibit antimicrobial property resulting in suppression cell growth test organism ATCC 8739 E. coli. It has a MIC value 1.5% (w/v, 35°C, 20 hr) cou...

This paper, combining the standpoints of philosophy and Artificial Intelligence with theoretical psychology, summarises several decades of investigation by the author of the variety of functions of vision in humans and other animals, pointing out that biological evolution has solved many more problems than are normally noticed. For example, the biological functions of human and animal vision ar...

The Gas to Gasoline (GTG) process includes conversion of natural, flare, and associated gas into synthetic fuels that can be compositionally upgraded and adjusted into different useful hydrocarbon fuels including gasoline, liquid petroleum gas (LPG), and fuel gas. Commonly, the GTG process involves three stages: 1) Synthesis gas (syngas) production unit 2) Methanol production unit 3) Methanol t...

The theory of affordances, a conceptual pillar of the ecological approach to perception and action, has the potential to become a guiding principle for research on perception and action in sport. Affordances are opportunities for action. They describe the environment in terms of behaviors that are possible at a given moment under a given set of conditions. Affordances capture the tight coupling...

Understanding the role of ICT for development is at the core of ICT4D research. However, prevailing research in this field most often focuses on access or readiness of a technology, or on the outcomes of the technology use. Less attention has been paid to understand the mechanism of the technology use that leads to the outcomes. The question of why ICT in a development context sometimes work an...

In the extant ample research on news engagement social media, a majority of studies thus far have centered mainly users’ motivations, gratifications, and characteristics less platforms in which they operate. Yet, it is well recognized that behavior shaped by technological interfaces, users differentiate between switch to suit their specific needs. The current study, therefore, adopts cross-plat...

The concept of affordances, introduced by J.J. Gibson in Psychology, has recently attracted interest in autonomous robotics towards the development of cognitive systems. In earlier work (Şahin et al., Adaptive Behavior, vol.15(4), pp. 447-472, 2007), we reviewed the uses of this concept in different fields and proposed a formalism to use affordances at different levels of robot control. In this...

The role of affordances In our opinion the model would be improved if affordance for action mechanisms were integrated: The potentiation of motor interactions consistent with the conventional use of a perceived tool (Bub et al., 2008). Affordances would easily explain the mechanism underlying the quick choice of the most appropriate tool when an action goal is given. In Figure 1A, bidirectional...

The mere observation of pictures or words referring to manipulable objects is sufficient to evoke their affordances since objects and their nouns elicit components of appropriate motor programs associated with object interaction. While nobody doubts that objects actually evoke motor information, the degree of automaticity of this activation has been recently disputed. Recent evidence has indeed...