Even though considerable attention has been given to semantic orientation of words and the creation of large polarity lexicons, research in emotion analysis has had to rely on limited and small emotion lexicons. In this paper we show how the combined strength and wisdom of the crowds can be used to generate a large, high-quality, word–emotion association lexicon quickly and inexpensively. We fl...

Abstract Watermelon is a very important commodity in food security, especially horticultural products. hybrid varieties are proven to be able increase production and income for watermelon farmers. breeding continues produce superior varieties. Pure strains of as parents the propagation or seeds, necessary crosses between F1 hybrids. Evaluation selectionare stages plant program. The purpose this...

Texture is an important attribute affecting consumer perception of fruit quality. Peach melting flesh and flesh adhesion to stone (endocarp) are simply inherited and controlled by the F-M locus on linkage group (LG) 4. Here, we report that two genes encoding endopolygalacturonase (endoPG) in the F-M locus, designated PpendoPGF and PpendoPGM, are associated with the melting flesh and stone adhes...

We present a lip contour tracking algorithm using attractorguided particle filtering. Usually it is difficult to robustly track the lip contour because the lip contour is highly deformable and the contrast between skin and lip colors is very low. It makes the traditional blind segmentation-based algorithms often fail to have robust and realistic results. But in fact, the lip contour is constrai...

Images of a scene captured with multiple cameras will have different color values because of variations in color rendering across devices. We present a method to accurately retrieve color information from uncalibrated images taken under uncontrolled lighting conditions with an unknown device and no access to raw data, but with a limited number of reference colors in the scene. The method is use...

Loquat (Eriobotrya japonica Lindl.) can be sorted into red- and white-fleshed cultivars. The flesh of Luoyangqing (LYQ, red-fleshed) appears red-orange because of a high content of carotenoids while the flesh of Baisha (BS, white-fleshed) appears ivory white due to a lack of carotenoid accumulation. The carotenoid content in the peel and flesh of LYQ was approximately 68 μg g(-1) and 13 μg g(-1...

In a previous experiment, we have studied the preference judgement of pictorial images with image experts and naive observers. We asked image experts to improve pictorial images the way they preferred. Then we showed those images to naive observers and asked them for their preferred image. We learned that, to enhance an image, an expert divides it into large zones of interest, which mainly corr...

Determining the mechanistic and genetic basis of animal coloration is essential to understand the costs and constraints on color production, and the evolution and maintenance of phenotypic variation. However, genes underlying structural color and widespread pigment classes apart from melanin remain largely uncharacterized, in part due to restricted taxonomic focus. We combined liquid chromatogr...

Cucumber is an agriculturally and economically important vegetable crop worldwide. Fruit flesh thickness is an important trait for cucumber and also a central determinant of yield, yet little is known about the underlying mechanism of this trait. In this study, bulked segregant analysis (BSA) combined with specific length amplified fragment sequencing (SLAF-seq) was applied to finely map the ge...

Apples are an important component of the diet and used in food industry production products beverages. The aim study was to determine changes biochemical composition physicochemical properties apples stored a controlled atmosphere. We studied (sugars, ascorbic acid, soluble solids, titratable acidity) (color coordinates, peel, flesh firmness) apple samples before placing them atmosphere chamber...