scholarly journals The measurement of natural sucrose in different types of vegetables and fruits using refractometric method

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ekaterina Maratovna Lekerova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Refractometric Method ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits

scholarly journals Dietary Flavonoids as Cancer Chemopreventive Agents: An Updated Review of Human Studies

Antioxidants ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (5) ◽  
pp. 137 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carmen Rodríguez-García ◽  
Cristina Sánchez-Quesada ◽  
José J. Gaforio
Keyword(s):  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Population Based ◽  
Chemopreventive Agents ◽  
Dietary Polyphenols ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Flavonoid Intake ◽  
Global Goal ◽  
Dietary Flavonoid ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits ◽  
Dietary Flavonoids

Over the past few years, interest in health research has increased, making improved health a global goal for 2030. The purpose of such research is to ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing across individuals of all ages. It has been shown that nutrition plays a key role in the prevention of some chronic diseases such as obesity, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and cancer. One of the aspects that characterises a healthy diet is a high intake of vegetables and fruits, as both are flavonoid-rich foods. Flavonoids are one of the main subclasses of dietary polyphenols and possess strong antioxidant activity and anti-carcinogenic properties. Moreover, some population-based studies have described a relationship between cancer risk and dietary flavonoid intake. In this context, the goal of this review was to provide an updated evaluation of the association between the risk of different types of cancers and dietary flavonoid intake. We analysed all relevant epidemiological studies from January 2008 to March 2019 using the PUBMED and Web of Science databases. In summary, this review concludes that dietary flavonoid intake is associated with a reduced risk of different types of cancer, such as gastric, breast, prostate, and colorectal cancers.

COMPARATIVE STUDY OF SOME ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF VEGETABLES AND FRUITS

2007 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 593-596 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Soceanu ◽  
Simona Dobrinas ◽  
Viorica Popescu ◽  
Semaghiul Birghila ◽  
Vasile Magearu
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Essential Elements ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits

scholarly journals Cancer prevention and diet: oppourtunities in Europe

2001 ◽  
Vol 4 (2b) ◽  
pp. 475-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elio Riboli ◽  
Teresa Norat
Keyword(s):  
Dietary Habits ◽  
Epidemiological Studies ◽  
Red Meat ◽  
Alcoholic Beverages ◽  
Processed Meat ◽  
Consistent Finding ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Different Populations ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits

AbstractOver the past 20 years, a large number of epidemiological studies, particularly case-control and cohort studies, have been conducted to investigate the role of diet and the risk of developing different types of cancer. The most consistent finding so far is the association observed between consumption of vegetables and fruit and reduced risk of cancers of the digestive and respiratory tracts. More recently, evidence has accumulated indicating that high consumption of red meat (mainly beef, lamp and pork) and of preserved meat (‘charcuterie’) is specifically associated with a modest but significant increase in colorectal cancer risk. Finally, there is epidemiological evidence supporting an association between the risk of developing gastric cancer and the intake of salt and-preserved foods.Cancer incidence and dietary habits vary substantially across Europe, and the expected benefit of dietary changes may be somewhat difference in different populations. Despite some uncertainly, it is generally agreed that an increase in the consumption of vegetables and fruits and a decrease in the intake of red meat, processed meat, alcoholic beverages, salt and salt-preserved foods should contribute to a reduction in the incidence of cancers of the digestive and respiratory tract.

scholarly journals Image Processing of Vegetables and Predicting Disease

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 3791-3797
Keyword(s):  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
Image Manipulation ◽  
Economic Losses ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
Huge Number ◽  
Agricultural Industry ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits ◽  
Rgb Image ◽  
Disease Present

Diseases present in vegetables as well as fruits are producing huge number of sufferings in the economic losses with addition to the losses of our agricultural industry worldwide. The main concern of this project is to understand various issues faced by the farmers in addition to consumer community also and hence to deliver a solution in regard to this major issue for farmers in detecting and classifying the category of the disease present in the vegetables and fruits. According to various studies we concluded that the diseases could occur through various aspects like viruses, fungus, bacteria etc. Hence as a result there is a great need to terminate such precious losses to the vegetables along with the farmers and in addition with the whole agricultural environment. Sometimes not only such aspects can cause damage to the vegetables but also there are many more reasons which are improper transportation of these vegetables from one origin to another, diverse climatic conditions could also be a reason of such causes. We have used python as a programming language with OpenCV library and HSV model of object detection to derive the optimal results. This library is used to perform several image manipulation operations. The dataset including numerous amount having traces of bacteria, fungi, etc. on vegetables are created. Then we implied HSV model which helps us to detect the spots or we can say traces of bacteria, fungi on the vegetables and hence the mask of that region is separated from the RGB image. GUI is created in python only which makes the program interactive with the user. Hence as a result we are able to see different types of spots for different type of disease

Flow Characteristics and Energy Analysis in Solar Dryers

2008 ◽  
Vol 59 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ion Seres ◽  
I. Farkas
Keyword(s):  
Energy Analysis ◽  
Control Method ◽  
Flow Characteristics ◽  
Efficiency Analysis ◽  
Optical Control ◽  
Solar Drying ◽  
Measurement Results ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Vegetables And Fruits ◽  
Operational Methods

The paper presents the research results on solar drying achieved in the Department of Physics and Process Control, Szent Istv�n University. First the used modular solar dryer is presented together with the different operational methods, and energy and efficiency analysis. The results from the theoretical modeling of the drying processes are compared to the measurement results for different types of vegetables and fruits. The measurements of some material properties and an optical control method are also presented.

The extinction time of a general birth and death process with catastrophes

1986 ◽  
Vol 23 (04) ◽  
pp. 851-858 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. J. Brockwell
Keyword(s):  
Laplace Transform ◽  
Size Distribution ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Death Process ◽  
Extinction Time ◽  
Birth And Death Process ◽  
Different Types ◽  
The Laplace Transform ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The Laplace transform of the extinction time is determined for a general birth and death process with arbitrary catastrophe rate and catastrophe size distribution. It is assumed only that the birth rates satisfyλ0= 0,λj> 0 for eachj> 0, and. Necessary and sufficient conditions for certain extinction of the population are derived. The results are applied to the linear birth and death process (λj=jλ, µj=jμ) with catastrophes of several different types.

Differentiating between different forms of moral obligations

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rajen A. Anderson ◽  
Benjamin C. Ruisch ◽  
David A. Pizarro
Keyword(s):  
Moral Character ◽  
Moral Obligations ◽  
Different Types

Abstract We argue that Tomasello's account overlooks important psychological distinctions between how humans judge different types of moral obligations, such as prescriptive obligations (i.e., what one should do) and proscriptive obligations (i.e., what one should not do). Specifically, evaluating these different types of obligations rests on different psychological inputs and has distinct downstream consequences for judgments of moral character.

Ultrastructural Investigations of the Contractile Filaments of Amoebae

1974 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 188-189
Author(s):  
P.L. Moore
Keyword(s):  
Cytoplasmic Streaming ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Freeze Fracture ◽  
Amoeboid Movement ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Chemical Conditions ◽  
Complete Interpretation

Previous freeze fracture results on the intact giant, amoeba Chaos carolinensis indicated the presence of a fibrillar arrangement of filaments within the cytoplasm. A complete interpretation of the three dimensional ultrastructure of these structures, and their possible role in amoeboid movement was not possible, since comparable results could not be obtained with conventional fixation of intact amoebae. Progress in interpreting the freeze fracture images of amoebae required a more thorough understanding of the different types of filaments present in amoebae, and of the ways in which they could be organized while remaining functional.The recent development of a calcium sensitive, demembranated, amoeboid model of Chaos carolinensis has made it possible to achieve a better understanding of such functional arrangements of amoeboid filaments. In these models the motility of demembranated cytoplasm can be controlled in vitro, and the chemical conditions necessary for contractility, and cytoplasmic streaming can be investigated. It is clear from these studies that “fibrils” exist in amoeboid models, and that they are capable of contracting along their length under conditions similar to those which cause contraction in vertebrate muscles.

Study of the Molecular Architecture of Keratin Filaments by Electron Microscopy

1982 ◽  
Vol 40 ◽  
pp. 118-119
Author(s):  
U. Aebi ◽  
P. Rew ◽  
T.-T. Sun
Keyword(s):  
Electron Microscopy ◽  
Structural Organization ◽  
Cell Types ◽  
Structural Features ◽  
Molecular Architecture ◽  
The Past ◽  
Keratin Filaments ◽  
Different Types ◽  
10 Nm Filaments ◽  
Different Cell Types

Various types of intermediate-sized (10-nm) filaments have been found and described in many different cell types during the past few years. Despite the differences in the chemical composition among the different types of filaments, they all yield common structural features: they are usually up to several microns long and have a diameter of 7 to 10 nm; there is evidence that they are made of several 2 to 3.5 nm wide protofilaments which are helically wound around each other; the secondary structure of the polypeptides constituting the filaments is rich in ∞-helix. However a detailed description of their structural organization is lacking to date.

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