Insoluble Grape Material Present in Must Affects the Overall Fermentation Aroma of Dry White Wines Made from Three Grape Cultivars Cultivated in Greece

ABSTRACT: Musts from 3 grape varieties were used to elucidate the effect of the presence of grape solids in must on the volatile composition of the resultant white wines. Volatile compounds were analyzed by GC/MS and GC/FPD except H₂S, which was measured spectrophotometrically. Increasing quantities of grape insoluble material decreased the substances that enhanced aroma of Savatiano and Batiki wines. Simultaneously, the levels of compounds that degrade wine aroma, when formed in large amounts, were increased. However, in Muscat of Hamburg wines, the levels of some volatiles were not influenced by must turbidity in the same way as in wines of the other cultivars.     

Assessment of the genetic polymorphism and biogenic amine production of indigenous Oenococcus oeni strains isolated from Greek red wines

In the warm climate country of Greece malolactic fermentation (MLF) has received limited attention. Molecular techniques and High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) were used to study the genetic polymorphism of autochthonous lactic acid bacteria developing towards the end of spontaneous MLF of Greek red wines and for the assessment of their potential to produce harmful biogenic amines. This research revealed that native Oenococcus oeni isolates are very much adapted to specific winery conditions since the majority of spontaneous MLF were driven mostly or exclusively by a single strain of O. oeni. Native O. oeni strains showed only limited dispersion since cluster analysis uncovered only few common genotypes among indigenous isolates from different wineries. The genotype of a frequently used malolactic starter was more than often detected among autochthonous isolates without nevertheless compromising the biodiversity of natural microflora residing in wineries but rather becoming a part of it. For the majority of the wine samples studied, MLF implementation and storage in bottles resulted in negligible changes on the levels of the BA histamine, tyramine, phenylethylamine, cadaverine as well as of ethylamine, methylamine, isobutylamine. We provide evidence that autochthonous O. oeni isolates can only contribute to putrescine accumulation in Greek wines but still the specific trait behaves as strain-specific with a limited dispersion.     

The effect of borderline examples on language learning

Imbalanced training sets, where one or more classes are heavily underrepresented in the training data compared to the others, prove to be problematic when trying to classify new instances that belong to a rare class. In the present article, class imbalance occurs in the datasets of three language learning applications: automatic identification of verb complements, automatic recognition of semantic entities and learning taxonomic relations. All three applications are tested on Modern Greek text corpora; verb complement identification is applied to English corpora also, and comparative results are presented. The difference in statistical behaviour between the classes may be attributed to the low pre-processing level of the corpora, and/or the automatic nature of the pre-processing phase, and/or the exceptional occurrence of the linguistic information of interest in the data. Two different approaches are experimented with in order to deal with the problem: one-sided sampling (OSS) of the dataset and classification using support vector machines (SVMs). OSS removes redundant, noisy and misleading instances of the majority class, reducing thereby the training set size, while SVMs, without removing any instances, take into account only examples that appear close to the borderline region between the classes. The better results achieved by OSS in all test cases lead to some very interesting observations regarding the impact of the various training instances on classification, depending on their position in the feature-vector space.     

Antioxidative activity and phenolic composition of pilot-plant and commercial extracts of sage and rosemary

Eight sage (Salvia officinalis) and twenty-four rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis) extracts, originating from pilot-plant or commercial sources, had different antioxidative activities as measured by accelerated autoxidation of methyl linoleate. Twenty-seven compounds were characterized in the Labiatae family extracts by high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) coupled with mass spectrometry, equipped with an atmospheric pressure chemical ionization interface, and by HPLC coupled with a photodiode array spectrophotometer. Twenty-two compounds were identified, including phenolic acids, carnosol derivatives, and flavonoids. The extracts showed great variation in their HPLC profiles, and no correlation was apparent between their antioxidative efficiency and their composition, in twenty specific phenols. Data indicated that the most effective compounds were carnosol, rosmarinic acid, and carnosic acid, followed by caffeic acid, rosmanol, rosmadial, genkwanin, and cirsimaritin.     

一串红色素的提取及其稳定性研究

研究了一串红色素的提取原理和方法,并对该色素的稳定性进行了验证。结果表明：该色素在酸性条件下对热、光均具有良好的稳定性,具有开发应用价值。     

Greek key jellyroll protein motif design: expression and characterization of a first-generation molecule

A protein designed de novo to fold into the Greek key jellyrollstructural motif has been studied. Theoretical analyses haveindicated that the designed sequence should adopt the ß-strandarrangement of the Greek key jellyroll rather than any otherarrangement. A synthetic gene was constructed and the proteinexpressed in Escherichia coli. Circular dichroism spectroscopyis consistent with the protein folding into the designed conformationand also suggests the presence of tertiary structure. Fluorescencespectroscopy showed the single tryptophan to be partially buried,while denaturation studies showed changes in fluorescence toprecede alterations in secondary structure.     

电阻阵列冷却用脉管制冷机研制

为解决以电阻阵列器件为基础的动态红外景像产生器中的冷却问题,设计并研制了一台采用线性压缩机驱动的在223 K工作的脉管制冷机。实验结果表明:在500 W的电输入功下,制冷机的最低无负荷制冷温度为99.7 K,在232.8 K获得了181.3 W的制冷量,与理论预测制冷量189.4 W吻合良好,相对卡诺效率达到10.4%,工作对脉管制冷机在普冷温区的应用是一次有益的探索。     

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