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.     

IRIS/AP型电感耦合等离子体光谱仪激发光源常见故障分析

本文介绍IRIS/AP型ICP的激发光源(炬管),并较为全面地阐述和分析其不能正常激发点燃的常见故障及其原因。     

以CGA卡为基础的智能显示系统

本文介绍了以微处理器与ＩＢＭ－ＰＣ上的彩色／图形适配器相结合构成的一种智能显示系统。本系统主要解决数控系统中主ＣＰＵ与６８４５ＣＲＴＣ争夺显示缓存的矛盾。保证了６８４５ＣＲＴＣ对显示缓存操作的时间要求；并且保证了数控系统中主ＣＰＵ对显示缓存操作的随意性。     

Ion irradiation—induced structure damage to botanic samples using the ion transmission energy spectrum

1 INTRODUCTIONThe new aPplications of low energy heavy ion beam in irradi4ted botanical materialswere studied in recellt yeaxs. The beaminduced mutation effect on crop seeds has causedthe attention of physicist and biologists.[1l:] FOr examPle, 1ow energy ions can induceremarkable mutation to rice seeds.[3] There are many special phenomena when heavyions bombard botanic sW1e due to its special structure. Some studies showed that tllepenetration depths of some ions were far larger than t…     

A tolerant approach to reconstruct topology from unorganized trimmed surfaces

Presented in this paper is a topology reconstruction algorithm from a set of unorganized trimmed surfaces. Error-prone small geometric elements are handled to give proper topological information. It gives complete topology to topologically complete models, and it is also tolerant to incomplete models. The proposed algorithm is vertex-based in that clues for topological information are searched from the set of vertices first, not from that of edges.     

Alleviation Effect of Lanthanum on Cadmium Stress in Seedling Hydroponic Culture of Kidney Bean and Corn

Since1970s,rare earths(RE)have been exten-sively used as micro-fertilizers for crops in China.Ithas already been proved that REcani mprove the pro-duction and quality of crops.However,there havebeen a fewinvestigations about using RE as regulatorin pollution ecology.For example,An et al[1]studiedthe effects of O3on wheat growth and the protectiveeffect of RE.Yan and Zhou et al[2,3]discussed theprotective effect of RE on plants under acid rainstress.Jia et al[4]and Hu et al[5]reported th…     

离子束混合工艺对材料抗蚀性能的影响

本文介绍了离子束混合工艺方法。与直接注入相比较,离子束混合所使用的设备造价低1/4—1/2,而生产效率可提高1—2个数量级,因而使生产成本大幅度降低,这无疑对离子束工艺的实际应用将产生巨大的促进作用。 通过对轴承材料(GCr15和Cr4Mo4V)经Cr、N、Ta不同元素的混合处理后,在0.5M H_2SO_4和0.1M NaCl的缓冲溶液中的阳极极化曲线表明经混合处理后的两种材料试样,其抗蚀能力和抗点蚀能力均大大提高,这与直接注入的试样效果是一致的。 通过俄歇谱仪和透射电镜的分析结果表明混合是成功的,且在一定的条件下,形成非晶组织。 本文的结论是,无论是离子的直接注入还是离子束混合,对提高轴承材料的抗腐蚀性能都是有效的方法,特别是离子束混合技术具有更大的应用前景。     

Nutritional response of mature rats to kidney bean (Phaseolus vulgaris) lectins

In a series of 10-day pair feeding experiments it was found that the nutritional value of diets containing beans was essentially the same for rats aged between 30 and 123 days. Thus net protein utilisation (NPU) values of 25–39 on diets containing Processor bean (35 g protein kg^?1) + egg albumin (65g protein kg^?1) were obtained. As food intakes were considerably reduced when rats were fed diets containing more than 35g protein kg^?1 of Processor bean, the measurement of protein utilisation became increasingly more difficult. The severe disruption of the brush borders of duodenal and jejunal enterocytes, originally observed when bean-containing diets were fed to young (30-day-old) rats was also found with rats up to the age of 120 days on similar diets. Similarly, the development of circulating anti-lectin antibodies in the animals showed no age dependence within the age limits investigated. It was also shown that oral immunisation did not protect the rats from the effects of toxicity and that the immune response was a result of continuous absorption of lectin throughout the feeding period. Thus the extent and the mechanism of toxicity of Phaseolus vulgaris bean lectins were found not to be dependent on the age or maturity of the animal.     

Isolation of the acidic and basic lectins from winged bean seed (Psophocarpus tetragonolobus (L.) DC)

The acidic and basic lectins of the winged bean were isolated from seed extracts by affinity chromatography on lactose-Sepharose 6B and melibiose Bio-Gel P150, respectively. The lectins isolated from six varieties of Psophocarpus tetragonolobus, collected from different regions of south-east Asia, showed no significant differences in their properties; their subunit M_r and amino acid compositions were the same as those of the acidic and basic lectins isolated by non-affinity methods. On isoelectric focusing the affinity purified acidic lectins showed two major protein components (isolectins) while the affinity purified basic lectins had four protein components. The acidic lectins showed a preference for β-D-galactosides and they agglutinated trypsinised human type A, B and O erythrocytes but not trypsinised rabbit erythrocytes. The basic lectins showed a preference for α-D-galactosides and they agglutinated trypsinised rabbit and human type A and B erythrocytes but not trypsinised human type O erythrocytes.     

Rapid determination of chlorophylls in vegetable oils by laser-based fluorometry

The presence of chlorophylls in vegetable oils is considered undesirable due to their adverse effects on oxidative deterioration, bleachability and hydrogenation. The usual methods for determination of chlorophylls in vegetable oils are absorption spectrophotometry, fluorometry and liquid chromatography using fluorescence detectors. This paper outlines a fluorometric method using a laser as the excitation source. The chlorophylls in crude palm oil, rapeseed oil, soya bean oil and olive oil were determined directly by laser-based fluorometry using (a) a helium-neon laser (632-8 nm, 5 mW) as the excitation source and an optical-multichannel analyser (OMA) with an intensified diode array as the detector, and (b) a helium-neon laser and a photomultiplier tube as the detector. The method is especially suitable for the detection of chlorophylls in crude palm oil since no pre-extraction step is required. The levels of chlorophylls measured in vegetable oils using the laser technique was also compared against values obtained by conventional spectrophotometric methods. The simplicity and rapid quantification of laser based fluorometry suggest that this technique can be readily applied to the detection or a wide variety of fluorescing species in vegetable oils.