Authenticity green coffee bean species and geographical origin using near-infrared spectroscopy combined with chemometrics

To prevent the adulteration of agricultural resources and provide a solution to enhance the green coffee bean supply chain, authentication using the near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) technique was investigated. Partial least square with discrimination analysis (PLS-DA) models combined with various preprocessing methods were built from NIR spectra of 153 Vietnamese green coffee samples. The model combined with the standard normal variate and the first order of derivative yielded excellent performance in predicting coffee species with the error cross-validation of 0.0261. PLS-DA model of mean centre and first-order derivative spectra also yielded good performance in verifying geographical indication of green coffee with the error of 0.0656. By contrast, the predicting abilities of post-harvest methods were poor. The overall results showed a high potential of the NIRS in online authentication practices.     

绿豆抗氧化肽的酶法制备及其抗氧化活性

为提高绿豆淀粉生产过程中产生的废弃物绿豆蛋白的资源利用率，研究了酶法制备绿豆抗氧化肽的最佳条件，并探究其抗氧化活性。通过选用不同蛋白酶及其复合酶，对绿豆蛋白进行水解，综合考虑反应时间、加酶量等因素，对酶解反应进行优化。通过体外抗氧化实验对水解制得的多肽溶液进行抗氧化能力检测，最终确立了最佳的反应条件，具体如下：选用中性蛋白酶进行酶解，底物质量分数3%，酶解时间3 h，加酶量质量分数2%，pH 7，温度50 ℃。按照该条件所制得的绿豆多肽溶液，质量浓度为5 mg/mL时，DPPH自由基清除率可达（91.58±2.44）%，同时还具有较强的还原能力。经凝胶层析柱分离纯化后得到5个分离组分，其中小分子肽段组分5的抗氧化能力最强，高于其他大分子肽段以及未分离多肽。     

The Photomontage Activity of Postmodernism

For decades now, Douglas Crimp’s landmark 1980 essay ‘The Photographic Activity of Postmodernism’ has shaped our understanding of modernism’s aftermath, at least as it unfolded in North America and Western Europe. Less remembered, however, is the degree to which the procedures of disjunction, copying, appropriation, and outright theft that he highlighted were epitomised not just by contemporary photography, but by photomontage in particular. This article recovers the debates that led critics such as Crimp, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, Christopher Phillips, Benjamin Buchloh and others to turn to photomontage as one of their principal objects of concern in what became known as the postmodern critique of photography. Why was montage tasked to perform this critical function, particularly by people around the journal October who had not otherwise devoted the balance of their writing to photography’s history? The article suggests that these men and women, along with the contemporary artists they foregrounded, manifested what Mary Anne Doane has called a ‘desire for signification’, a reaction in the late 1970s against the mute theatricality of minimalist and conceptual art. Photomontage reintroduced representation to contemporary art and to the canon of art history. But unlike the reemerging illusionism in painting that also manifested this desire, montage guarded against an uncomplicated realism by highlighting and critiquing operations of representation in a manner that painting no longer could.     

Development of ceramic fiber reinforced glass ceramic sealants for microtubular solid oxide fuel cells

Ceramic fibers in various forms with different fiber sizes are tested to improve the sealing performance of glass ceramic seals for microtubular solid oxide fuel cell applications. In this regard, several sealing pastes are prepared by mixing each ceramic fibers type with glass ceramics at 1.25 wt %. Five layered microtubular anode supported cells are also fabricated by extrusion and dip coating methods to evaluate the sealing performance of the composite sealants. The pastes are applied between the cells and gas manifolds made of Crofer22 APU. The electrochemical and sealing performances at an operating temperature of 800 °C under hydrogen are investigated after the glass forming process. Microstructures of the sealants are also examined by a scanning electron microscope. Experimental investigations reveal that the cells sealed by the pastes with ceramic bulk fiber and ceramic fiber rope gasket show acceptable open circuit potentials close to the theoretical one. These cells can be also pressurized up to around 150 kPa back pressure in the sealing performance tests. On the other hand, the pastes without any filler, with ceramic rope and with ceramic blanket exhibit poor sealing performance due to gas leakage originated from flowing of the main glass ceramic matrix from the joints. Therefore, ceramic bulk fiber and ceramic fiber rope gasket are found to behave as a stopper and can be used to prevent glass ceramics from flowing for microtubular solid oxide fuel cells or similar applications.     

Autolysis and the endogenous proteinases characterised in beardless barb (Anematichthys apogon) muscle

Beardless barb is a common fish species used in fermentation of fish paste Ka-pi-plaa. Autolytic profile of beardless barb muscle showed the maximum autolysis was at 50 °C, at both acidic and alkaline pH values. With augmentation concentration of NaCl, autolytic activity slightly decreased. Endogenous proteinases isolated from fish muscle in crude extract forms were also characterised. The acidic proteinases had optimum activity at pH 3.0 and 50°C, and they showed higher proteolytic activity than the alkaline proteinases which were optimally active at pH 9.0 and 50 °C. Proteinases in peak at pH 3.0 were inhibited by pepstatin A, but those in peak at pH 9.0 were highly inhibited by PMSF, TLCK and soybean trypsin inhibitor, suggesting that both aspartic and serine proteinases were existed in beardless barb muscle. The proteinases were stable in pH range of 2.0-5.0 but unstable at the temperatures higher than 40 °C. NaCl suppressed the proteolytic activity, ATP activated the proteinase activity, while CaCl₂, MgCl₂ and CoCl₂ exhibited no influence on the activity. The results implied that cathepsin D is the predominant proteinase responsible for autolysis in beardless barb. The findings were useful to improve the processing and qualities of Ka-pi-plaa product using beardless barb as raw material.     

电子束辐照灭菌对昭通酱品质影响研究

以昭通酱的感官评价、部分营养及理化成分为评价指标，研究电子束辐照剂量对其品质的影响。结果表明，当电子束辐照剂量为3.68 kGy时，昭通酱感官综合评价较好，真菌、大肠杆菌达到卫生标准，脂肪含量未显著下降（P＞0.05），过氧化值未显著上升（P＞0.05），6种大豆异黄酮含量未显著下降（P＞0.05），必需氨基酸（EAA）、总氨基酸（TAA）、呈味氨基酸（DAA），条件必需氨基酸（CEAA）未发生显著变化（P＞0.05），表明该剂量对昭通酱营养成分、理化指标的影响相对较小，且微生物指标达到卫生标准，是昭通酱电子束辐照灭菌的最佳剂量。     

Effect of microwave power irradiation on TiO2 nano-structures and binder free paste screen printed dye sensitized solar cells

Titanium dioxide (TiO₂) nanostructures (nanorods and nanoparticles) were prepared using a low-cost microwave irradiation method from a polyol medium of glycerol. Titanium glycerolate and TiO₂ powders were obtained in the glycerol medium for the first time with four different power densities (240?W, 480?W, 720?W, 960?W) of irradiation using a domestic microwave oven of 2.45?GHz, to understand the impact of power on morphology tuning. The structural and morphological features of the titanium glycerolate and TiO₂ powders were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) and Raman spectra analysis. The TiO₂ was successfully used in the fabrication of photovoltaic devices and as a proof-of-concept binder free paste was prepared and successfully employed for photo-anode using screen printing on the fluorine-doped tin oxide substrate.     

Impact of pre-treatment (soaking or germination) on nutrient and anti-nutrient contents,cooking time and acceptability of cooked red dry bean (Phaseolus vulgaris L.) and chickpea (Cicer arietinum L.) grown in Ethiopia

Pulses are processed in diverse ways prior to consumption. Soaking and germination are among the most common traditional, household-level food processing strategies. This study was carried out to determine the effects of soaking, germination, cooking and their combinations on the contents of selected nutrients and anti-nutrients of red dry bean and chickpea. In addition, the effects of pre-treatment on cooking time and the acceptability of dishes prepared from red dry bean and chickpea were determined. The nutrient compositions (zinc, iron and calcium) of most soaked-cooked and germinated-cooked red dry bean and chickpea samples were not significantly different than those of respective controls. However, soaking and germination pre-treatments significantly lowered the phytate and tannin contents of the red dry bean and chickpea samples, with a few exceptions, and overall, polyphenol contents were lower after soaking-cooking than after germination-cooking. Most scores for sensory attributes of bean-based and chickpea-based dishes prepared from soaked or germinated samples were not significantly different than those of the controls. For most red dry bean and chickpea samples, longer germination times yielded superior results in terms of reductions in cooking time, tannin content, and phytate:zinc and phytate:iron molar ratio.     

γ射线和电子束辐照对风味豆干杀菌效果及品质的影响

为探究γ射线和电子束辐照对风味豆干微生物和理化指标影响的差异性，分别采用不同剂量的γ射线（0、3.1、5.9、8.6、11.4 kGy）和电子束（0、2.7、5.5、8.2、10.8 kGy）辐照风味豆干，研究其对风味豆干中微生物存活数、营养成分、理化指标及质构特性的影响。结果表明，γ射线和电子束辐照均能有效控制风味豆干菌落总数、霉菌及大肠菌群数，γ射线辐照杂菌和霉菌的D₁₀值分别为1.82 kGy和1.72 kGy，电子束辐照的D₁₀值分别为2.44 kGy和1.79 kGy，γ射线对风味豆干的杀菌效果强于电子束。两种辐照方式对风味豆干水分、蛋白和灰分的含量没有明显影响，但辐照后脂肪含量均显著降低。γ射线辐照后风味豆干氨基酸的含量无明显变化，但5.5 kGy剂量条件下，电子束辐照会对缬氨酸、苯丙氨酸、脯氨酸、甘氨酸、丙氨酸、酪氨酸等6种氨基酸的含量产生显著影响。γ射线辐照对风味豆干过氧化值有显著的影响，与酸价无明显的相关性；而电子束辐照与风味豆干过氧化值没有明显的相关性，但会引起其酸价显著上升。γ射线辐照不会对风味豆干硬度、内聚性、胶着性、咀嚼性和弹性产生显著影响，电子束辐照对其硬度、内聚性和胶着性的影响不显著，但5.5 kGy以上剂量辐照会对其咀嚼性和弹性产生显著的影响。综上所述，γ射线和电子束对风味豆干的辐照效应在某些方面存在一定的差异性，但均具有在豆干加工中应用的潜力，研究结果可为γ射线和电子束辐照技术在豆干加工中的应用提供理论依据。