The existence of a slower initial hardening period during storage of dry black beans, independent of cooking time and heat pretreatment, was corroborated. Water vapor production during storage for 1 year at 25 and 35-degrees-C ...

The images of commercial potato chips were evaluated for various colour and textural features to characterize and classify the appearance and to model the quality preferences of a group of consumers. Features derived from ...

We investigate the self-assembly of vortices in a type-II superconducting disk subjected to highly nonuniform confining potentials produced by inhomogeneous magnetic textures. Using a series of numerical experiments performed ...

Macroscopic systems subjected to injection and dissipation of energy can exhibit complex spatiotemporal behaviors as result of dissipative self-organization. Here, we report a one- and two-dimensional pattern forming setup, ...

Cuprous oxide (Cu2O) films were electrodeposited on Ni/Si(100), Au/Si(100), and Si(100) substrates from aqueous solution at room temperature. The thicknesses of the films were varied in the range of 250 to 1250 nm. It was ...

An approach to classify potato chips using pattern recognition from color digital images consists of 5 steps: (1) image acquisition, (2) preprocessing, (3) segmentation, (4) feature extraction, and (5) classification. Ten ...

Soft tissue defects around dental implants, such as papilla or volume loss, peri-implant recession and alterations of the ridge color and/or texture, lead to esthetic and functional complaints. Treatments of these defects ...