Phenolic compounds (benzoic and cinnamic acid derivatives) were determined by high-performance liquid chromatography with multiple wavelength detector (HPLC- -MWD) in grape marc distillates aged in Quercus petraea, Quercus robur and Quercus alba wooden barrels. In addition to colour indices and evaluable polyphenols, all samples were described by sensorial analysis. There were significant diffe...

Background: The population ageing occurring worldwide resulted in multiple researches on sedentary ageing and quality of life. Purpose: To verify the effects of a physical activity programme on the quality of life (QOL) of elderly individuals served by a governmental health programme. Design: Descriptive inquiry research. Methods: randomly distributing 70 elderly individuals in a control group ...

While humans are capable of building connections between words and sensorial modalities by using commonsense knowledge, it is not straightforward for machines to interpret sensorial information. To this end, a lexicon associating words with human senses, namely sight, hearing, taste, smell and touch, would be crucial. Nonetheless, to the best of our knowledge, there is no systematic attempt in ...

Internet of Things (IoT) is being researched all over the world. The ability to communicate with the physical world through digital sensorial and actuator devices has enabled human being to understand, control and maintain nature with more efficiency. Several research are presented in the literature where majority focused on specific applications, or some specific challenge. These works often r...

Pediatric rehabilitation requires a multidisciplinary team approach to disabilities or handicaps caused by physical, mental, sensory-perceptional, or cognitive disorders due to prenatal, natal, or postnatal causes. Cerebral palsy (CP) is defined as persistent but not progressive disorder of posture and movement system, associated with functional activity limitations and sensorial, cognitive, co...

Antigenous is an immersive interactive installation model where the full-body gestures of the audience-participant, generate, interact with and modify the sonic expressions and the post-image impressions emanating from the interaction processes itself. The work is a metaphoric representation of the antigenous reaction caused by a foreign body invading an organism the installation is composed of...

The use of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in the treatment of foodstuffs presents some problems as it could lead to pseudo-allergies in some people. The aim of this research work was to study the addition of different preservative mixtures and their influence on the concentration of volatile compounds and sensorial quality in wine. To do so, vinifications were carried out using Garnacha must to which ly...

Methylated chickpea protein (MCP) or native chickpea protein (NCP) were supplemented to milk (0.5%) and combined with a mild thermization (65oC/ 5 min) treatment before storing at 4oC for 30 days. The influence of these combined treatments was assessed on milk physicochemical, nutritional and sensorial quality during storage. Supplementation of milk samples with MCP (0.5% w/v) significantly (p ...

The aim of this work is to evaluate the activity of allyl isothiocyanate (AITC) against fish spoilage bacteria (specific spoilage organisms; SSOs) as well as its possible use in gilthead sea bream (Sparus aurata) fillets to extend their shelf-life. In this regard, in vitro tests are carried out in order to evaluate the inhibitory activity of AITC and its vapours on several strains of SSOs. The ...

This paper describes the integration of several cognitively inspired anticipation and anticipatory learning mechanisms in an autonomous agent architecture, the Learning Intelligent Distribution Agent (LIDA) system. We provide computational mechanisms for variants of payoff, state, and sensorial anticipatory mechanisms. The payoff anticipatory mechanism in LIDA is implicitly realized by the acti...