This volume is based on the presentation of a workshop held in Babtai, Kaunas, Lithuania in June, 2001. It contains a number of articles with valuable information on the application of recent techniques and the development of methodologies. The impact of environmental factors on food crop quality, including handling parameters, quality evaluation, CA and MAP storage conditions worldwide, are also addressed. The book covers the entire spectrum of activities in the area of fruit and vegetable and few other plant products, e.g. medicinal, including production yields, and quality assessment. This book should interest researchers and the lay readers.
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This collection of papers describes various in-situ soil tests currently in use. Amongst other topics, it discuses the characterization of soils and test parameters, and notably, gives systematic, advanced meanings to standard industry tests.
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Soil Sciences
Soil Mechanics
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This handbook presents the elements of color science, systems, processing algorithms, and device characteristics relevant to digital color imaging. The first three chapters cover the basics of color vision, perception, and physics that underpin the subject. The remainder of the text presents the technology of color imaging with chapters on color management, device color characterization, image compression, color quantization, gamut mapping, computationally efficient transform algorithms, and color image processing for digital cameras. Each chapter is written by world-class experts and largely self-contained. Supplemental materials are available for download from the CRC Web site.
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Image Processing
Computer Graphics & Visualization
Electrical & Electronic Engineering
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En Anatomía de una rosa, Sharman Apt Russell desvela con elocuencia la «vida interna» de las flores y las dibuja como seres más independientes y comunicativos de lo que jamás hayamos podido imaginar. Desde las mil fragancias que ofrecen hasta las sutiles trampas que tienden, Russell muestra que en la naturaleza «el asombro no es sólo nuestro punto de partida; también puede ser nuestro destino».
En este viaje botánico, aprendemos todo lo que hay detrás de estas plantas inteligentes –cómo evolucionaron, cómo sobreviven, cómo nos curan, y terminan, en fin, por inspirar más admiración que su frágil belleza. Russell, entre otras cosas, nos ayuda a imaginar qué aspecto tiene un dragón para una abeja, describe las curiosas estrategias evolutivas de la vegetación de Sumatra, y nos introduce en el universo de las flores que regulan su temperatura, atraen murciélagos o desprenden los aromas y olores más variados.
El libro profundiza con habilidad en los últimos trabajos de la investigación botánica, desde las fragancias florales a los cinco sentidos. Ahora sabemos que las flores pueden «ver» longitudes de hondas invisibles para los humanos e incluso «paladear» la saliva de un depredador. Las flores no sólo son inteligentes, sabias y flexibles, sino que también poseen extraordinarias propiedades curativas: desde la antigüedad se han utilizado para mejorar nuestra salud, ya sea para aliviar una depresión o bien los dolores del parto, y hasta pueden participar de nuestro sistema de defensas contra la leucemia infantil o el virus Ébola.
En esta reflexión poética, que combina un estilo elegante y una gran lucidez científica, Russell reúne en una sola obra el trabajo de botánicos de todos los rincones del planeta, e ilumina un mundo a la vez familiar y exótico para la mayoría de los lectores

The book covers both the basics of plant chromosomes as well as advances such as molecular characteristics, to give the reader an understanding of the chromosome as vehicle of hereditary transmission. It is meant for all levels of students in genetics, evolution, and biodiversity.
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The papers compiled in this book cover almost all aspects of in-situ characterization ranging from rock mass classification measurement of in-situ stresses, strength and deformation characteristics to field instrumentation and back analysis of obs...
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Rock Mechanics
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Plant Reproduction presents an overview of plant reproduction at the research and professional level, covering physiological and molecular control of the floral transition, floral organ development, embryogenesis, pollination, and senescence. The volume is directed at plant geneticists, molecular biologists, developmental biologists and physiologists.
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Botany
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A pilot study conducted at the Gilze water treatment plant of Water Supply North West Brabant demonstrated that adsorptive filtration has several potential advantages over floc filtration, namely: longer filter runs due to slower head loss development; better filtrate quality; shorter ripening time; and less backwash water use. In existing groundwater treatment plants, the high iron (II) adsorption capacity of the iron oxide coated filter media makes it potentially possible to switch the governing mode of operation from floc filtration to adsorptive filtration. To achieve this two options can be considered: iron (II) adsorption under anoxic conditions followed by oxidation with oxygen-rich water; and adsorption of iron (II) in the presence of oxygen and simultaneous oxidation. The first option might be attractive specifically when two filtration steps are available.
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Ground Water
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