The aims of the present study were: (1) to determine the relevant objective measurements which could express visual assessment of turkey meat colour; and (2) to use these variables for the early prediction of the colour development of turkey breast meat.
The colour of the meat was assessed subjectively by an expert at a processing plant at 24 hr post mortem, using a four-category scale (score a: light-pale meat, score b: light pink meat or normal meat, score c: dark meat, score d: very dark meat).
Objective measurements included meat pH, temperature, dielectric loss factor, pigment concentration, L* (lightness), a* (redness) and b* (yellowness) colour coordinates determined at different times post mortem.
Colour coordinates and pH were chosen as relevant variables when measured at 1 and 4 hr post mortem and were used in prediction models. Linear analysis (canonical discriminant analysis) showed that the efficiency of prediction was 15%. A non-linear analysis (neural network) gave better prediction; the colour of the meat being correctly predicted for 70% of the muscles. 相似文献
Due to the increase in the number and popularity of applications such as e-commerce or on-line booking systems, typical of the Web 2.0, dynamic contents are becoming more and more frequent. This trend suggests the review of widely accepted paradigms and models for the World Wide Web. As a system that is continuously changing, both in the offered applications and in its infrastructure, performance evaluation studies are a main concern to provide sound proposals when designing new web-related systems. Although the dynamism in the workload characterization has also been tackled in previous research, it has not been modeled in a precise way yet because of its complex nature.In this paper we propose the Dweb model which represents the dynamism of current web applications in the workload characterization. Dweb is based on three main concepts that allow to model dynamic workload: navigation, workload test and workload distribution. In addition, a dynamic workload generator has been implemented to show the practical application of the proposed model, which has been illustrated through a case study. 相似文献
Software is a major source of reliability degradation in dependable systems. One of the classical remedies is to provide software fault tolerance by using N-Version Programming (NVP). However, due to requirements on non-standard hardware and the need for changes and additions at all levels of the system, NVP solutions are costly, and have only been used in special cases.In a previous work, a low-cost architecture for NVP execution was developed. The key features of this architecture are the use of off-the-shelf components including communication standards and that the fault tolerance functionality, including voting, error detection, fault-masking, consistency management, and recovery, is moved into a separate redundancy management circuitry (one for each redundant computing node).In this article we present an improved design of that architecture, specifically resolving some potential inconsistencies that were not treated in detail in the original design. In particular, we present novel techniques for enforcing replica determinism.Our improved architecture is based on using the Controller Area Network (CAN). This choice goes beyond the obvious interest of using standards in order to reduce the cost, since all the rest of the architecture is designed to take full advantage of the CAN standard features, such as data consistency, in order to significantly reduce the complexity, the efficiency and the cost of the resultant system.Although initially developed for NVP, our redundancy management circuitry also supports other software replication techniques, such as active replication. 相似文献
The mechanical property and microstructure evolutions of Ni3Al intermetallic compound subjected to surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT) were investigated in relation to surface nanocrystalization. Grain size in topmost surface of SMATed Ni3Al alloy was refined to a minimum size of about 10 nm, and then increased with the enhancement of the depth from surface to matrix. The original ordered L12 phase transformed to Ni (Al) solid solution with a disordered face-centered cubic structure. The maximum nanohardness of the deformed Ni3Al alloy was near 12 GPa. The microstructure evolution including the variation of defects during the SMAT as well as post-annealing processes showed that the surface nanocrystallization of Ni3Al intermetallic compound was predominantly controlled by dislocations which divided the coarse grains. The different microstructures at each sublayer illustrated that the nanocrystallization process was decided by the accumulated energy resulted from plastic strain. 相似文献
This work presents a sustainability analysis of CO2 reuse to produce dimethyl carbonate (DMC) via ethylene oxide (ROUTE A) and via urea methanolysis (ROUTE B). Two different technologies are considered in ROUTE A: reaction followed by separation and reactive distillation. Life cycle analyses of the ROUTES are presented employing sustainability analysis performed in HYSYS process simulator, along with WAR Algorithm. Process economical optimization is performed to maximize the processes profitability. A sustainability function, defined as a 2D indicator involving both economical and environmental aspects, is calculated for the optimized processes. Additional sustainability indexes are evaluated: material index, energy index, and ecoefficiency. The results, under both economical and environmental aspects, show that ROUTE A is the most sustainable. The study also points to the relevance of the frontier set between the domains cradle-to-gate and gate-to-gate in assessing process sustainability during LCA. 相似文献