A study has been initiated to review syrup clarification technology, with the objective of finding methods of improving syrup clarification, including chemical addition, and with special reference to aeration and flocculation problems. Preliminary results suggest that significant improvements to raw sugar quality are possible, particularly filterability. The review to-date is presented, with re...

Our review of angiostrongyliasis in China found that the disease is emerging as a result of changes in food consumption habits and long-distance transportation of food. Enhanced understanding of angiostrongyliasis epidemiology, increased public awareness about the risks associated with eating raw food, and enhanced food safety measures are needed.

This paper describes a new model for human visual classification that enables the recovery of image features that explain human subjects’ performance on different visual classification tasks. Unlike previous methods, this algorithm does not model their performance with a single linear classifier operating on raw image pixels. Instead, it represents classification as the combination of multiple ...

We present a framework called Semantic Streams that allows users to pose declarative queries over semantic interpretations of sensor data. For example, instead of querying raw magnetometer data, the user queries whether vehicles are cars or trucks; the system decides which sensor data and which operations to use to infer the type of vehicle. The user can also place constraints on values such as...

Image mining systems that can automatically extract semantically meaningful information (knowledge) from image data are increasingly in demand. The fundamental challenge in image mining is to determine how low-level, pixel representation contained in a raw image or image sequence can be processed to identify high-level spatial objects and relationships. To meet this challenge, we propose an eff...

In this paper, a novel algorithm for detecting microarray sub-grids is proposed. The only input to the proposed algorithm is the raw microarray image, which can be at any resolution, and the subgrid detection is performed with no prior assumptions. The algorithm consists of a series of methods of spot shape detection, spot filtering, spot spacing estimation, and sub-grid shape detection. The al...

1.0 Introduction The image compression toolbox, written by Satish Kumar, located on the internet at http://www.debugmode.com/imagecmp/icomptbx.htm, is a wavelet based image compression tool. The toolbox contains a collection of functions that are commonly used in wavelet based image compression techniques. The following section gives a description of each function that comprises the image compr...

The indicator domestic material consumption (domestic extraction + imports – exports) is widely used to track the scale, composition, and dynamics of material use. As production increasingly occurs at a spatial distance from the demand it ultimately satisfies, new accounting challenges arise that this indicator may not be able to meet. In response, indicators in raw material equivalents (RME) h...

There continues to be considerable public debate on the possible benefits regarding the growing popularity of the consumption of raw milk. However, there are significant concerns by regulatory, or public health, organizations like the Food and Drug Administration and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention because of risk of contracting milkborne illnesses if the raw milk is contaminated...

Compilers today are capable of inferring detailed information about program parallelism and analyzing whole-program behavior. However, the traditional interface between the compiler and the processor, as defined by the instruction set architecture (ISA), is unable to communicate much of the compiler knowledge to the processor. The approach taken by modern processors such as superscalars is to i...