Prevention of Natural Flowering in Pineapple (Ananas comosus) by Shading and Urea Application

Meng-Tzu Lin,Alfred Ming Chen1,Tzong-Shyan Lin,Ching-San Kuan,Ching-Lung Lee,Wen-Ju Yang 한국원예학회 2015 Horticulture, Environment, and Biotechnology Vol.56 No.1

The year-round production of pineapple (Ananas comosus var. comosus) is often interrupted by natural flowering during winter in Taiwan. A stable and promising technique for preventing natural flowering is required. In this study, we have tested the effect of shading and urea application on the flowering of pineapple. Shading 90% of sun light(s) before mid-November delayed the natural flowering of pineapple and the delay was affected by the plant age. For pineapples planted less than 11 month before mid-November, applying 1% urea plus shading treatment (SN) completely inhibited natural flowering. All the flowering-inhibited plants could be forced to flower by applying calcium carbide. Long-term shading might result in a decreased number of fruitlets within a fruit. However, 6 weeks of recovery before forcing flowering was sufficient for plants to produce fruits with quality equal to that of the control plants. In winter, pineapple plants that were prone to flowering tended to accumulate more leaf starch and increase their C/N ratio. The SN treatment increased the leaf nitrogen concentration and thus effectively maintained a low leaf C/N ratio. Furthermore, flowering-inhibited plants exhibited a constantly low level of leaf starch during the winter and their flowering forced by calcium carbide did not accompany with leaf starch accumulation.

The back contact modification in high-efficiency Cu₂ZnSn(S,Se)₄ solar cells by a thin MoO₃ layer

Septia KHOLIMATUSSADIAH,Cheng-Ying CHEN,Wei-Chao CHEN,Yi-Rung LIN,Shao-Hung LU,Meng-Chia HSIEH,Jan-Kai CHANG,Chih-I WU,Ruei-San CHEN,Kuei-Hsien CHEN,Li-Chyong CHEN 한국진공학회 2016 한국진공학회 학술발표회초록집 Vol.2016 No.8

Growth, Feed Utilization and Blood Metabolic Responses to Different Amylose-amylopectin Ratio Fed Diets in Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Chen, Meng-Yao,Ye, Ji-Dan,Yang, Wei,Wang, Kun Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 2013 Animal Bioscience Vol.26 No.8

A feeding trial was conducted in tilapia to determine the growth performance, nutrient digestibility, digestive enzymes, and postprandial blood metabolites in response to different dietary amylose-amylopectin ratios. Five isonitrogenous and isolipidic diets containing an equal starch level with different amylose-amylopectin ratios of 0.11 (diet 1), 0.24 (diet 2), 0.47 (diet 3), 0.76 (diet 4) and 0.98 (diet 5) were formulated using high-amylose corn starch (as the amylose source) and waxy rice (as the amylopectin source). Each diet was hand-fed to six tanks of 15 fish each, three times a day over a 6-wk period. After the growth trial, a postprandial blood metabolic test was carried out. Fish fed diet 2 exhibited the highest percent weight gain and feed efficiency and protein efficiency ratio, whereas fish fed with diet 5 showed the lowest growth and feed utilization among treatments. The digestibility for starch in fish fed diet 1 and 2 was higher than those in fish fed with other diets (p<0.05). The highest activities for protease, lipase and amylase were found in fish fed the diet 2, diet 1, and diet 1 respectively among dietary treatments, while the lowest values for these indexes were observed in fish fed the diet 3, diet 5 and diet 4, respectively. The liver glycogen concentrations in fish fed diets 4 and 5 were found higher than in fish fed other diets (p<0.05). The feeding rate, hepatosomatic index, condition factor, and plasma parmeters (glucose, triglyceride, total cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein cholesterol, and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol) did not differ across treatments. In terms of postprandial blood responses, peak blood glucose and triglycerides were lower after 3 or 6 h in the fish fed with diets 3-5 than in the fish fed diet 1, but delayed peak blood total amino acid time was observed in fish fed with the diets 1 or 2. The lowest peak values for each of the three blood metabolites were observed in fish fed diet 5. The results indicate that high-dietary amylose-amylopectin ratio could compromise growth, but help in reducing the blood glucose stress on fish caused by postprandial starch load.

Fuzzy neural network controller of interconnected method for civil structures

Chen, Z.Y.,Meng, Yahui,Wang, Ruei-yuan,Chen, Timothy Techno-Press 2022 Advances in concrete construction Vol.13 No.5

Recently, an increasing number of cutting-edged studies have shown that designing a smart active control for real-time implementation requires piles of hard-work criteria in the design process, including performance controllers to reduce the tracking errors and tolerance to external interference and measure system disturbed perturbations. This article proposes an effective artificial-intelligence method using these rigorous criteria, which can be translated into general control plants for the management of civil engineering installations. To facilitate the calculation, an efficient solution process based on linear matrix (LMI) inequality has been introduced to verify the relevance of the proposed method, and extensive simulators have been carried out for the numerical constructive model in the seismic stimulation of the active rigidity. Additionally, a fuzzy model of the neural network based system (NN) is developed using an interconnected method for LDI (linear differential) representation determined for arbitrary dynamics. This expression is constructed with a nonlinear sector which converts the nonlinear model into a multiple linear deformation of the linear model and a new state sufficient to guarantee the asymptomatic stability of the Lyapunov function of the linear matrix inequality. In the control design, we incorporated H Infinity optimized development algorithm and performance analysis stability. Finally, there is a numerical practical example with simulations to show the results. The implication results in the RMS response with as well as without tuned mass damper (TMD) of the benchmark building under the external excitation, the El-Centro Earthquake, in which it also showed the simulation using evolved bat algorithmic LMI fuzzy controllers in term of RMS in acceleration and displacement of the building.

Preparation and Characterization of Electrospun Polyimide Microfibrous Mats with High Whiteness and High Thermal Stability from Organo-soluble Polyimides Containing Rigid-rod Moieties

Chen-yu Guo,Jin-gang Liu,Lu-meng Yin,Meng-ge Huangfu,Yan Zhang,Xiao Wu,Xiu-min Zhang 한국섬유공학회 2018 Fibers and polymers Vol.19 No.8

A series of flexible and tough polyimide (PI) microfibrous mats (PI-1~PI-4) have been prepared via the one-step electrospinning procedure with the organo-soluble PI resins as the starting materials. For this purpose, four PI resins were first synthesized by the chemical imidization reaction from 2,2'-bis(3,4-dicarboxyphenyl)hexafluoropropane dianhydride (6FDA) and four aromatic diamines containing rigid-rod moieties in their molecular skeletons, respectively. The PI resins derived from 6FDA and aromatic diamines, including PI-1 from 2-(4-aminophenyl)-5-aminobenzimidazole (APBI), PI-2 from 2-(4-aminophenyl)-5-aminobenzoxazole (APBO), PI-3 from 4,4′-diaminobenzanilide (DABA), and PI-4 from 2- chloro-4,4-diaminobenzanilide (Cl-DABA) exhibited good solubility in polar aprotic solvents, such as N-methyl-2- pyrrolidone (NMP) and N,N-dimethylacetamide (DMAc). Flexible and tough microfibrous mats were successfully prepared by a one-step electrospinning procedure from the PI/DMAc solution (solid content: 15-20 wt%; absolute viscosity: 8000- 10000 mPa·s). The derived PI mats exhibited good whiteness according to the CIE Lab measurements with W (whiteness) values as high as 94.31, L (lightness) values higher than 94.00, b* (yellowness) values as low as 2.98 and yellow indices (YI) as low as 4.87. In addition, the prepared PI mats exhibited excellent thermal and dimensional stability with the glass transition temperatures (Tg) higher than 345 oC and linear coefficients of thermal expansion (CTE) as low as 27.8×10-6 /K.

An Investigation of Haptic Interaction in Online Negotiation between different native language people

Meng Chen,Shogo Okada,Katsumi Nitta 한국산업정보학회 2012 한국산업정보학회논문지 Vol.17 No.1

Due to the development of internet technology, the online business trade becomes an active area. Online negotiation supporting systems have been developing very actively in recent years to meet the growing needs. We have been studying on the effect that the haptic device brings about in interaction through online negotiation between two parties. In order to meet the online negotiation"s requirements, the developed interface should be able to protect user"s anonymity, convey user"s emotion and make the scene alive. In this study, we adopt haptic interaction as a means of conveying emotion in an online negotiation between Japanese and Chinese people. In this study, our goal is to investigate the effectiveness of haptic interaction in communications between Chinese and Japanese users and analyze the characteristics in operation the haptic device. We conducted online negotiation experiments with and without haptic interaction . The comparison experiments results show that the haptic feedback can help to convey the emotion and the sense of presence. The Chinese subjects" feedback for the questionnaire concerning the emotional communication and the sense of presence varies slightly compared to the Japanese subjects. We also found when using the haptic device, the force feedback can influence subject"s feelings. There is little significant difference between the advanced and the medium subjects in negotiation dialogues and the haptic device"s operation, the beginner subjects are slightly at a disadvantage.

Self-Assessed Health and Perceptions of Fairness in Metropolitan China: A Social Capital Perspective

Chen Meng 서울대학교 사회발전연구소 2016 Journal of Asian Sociology Vol.45 No.3

This article uses the novel survey data of three megacities in China, including Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou, to examine the relationships among social class, social capital, individual self-reported health, and perceptions of fairness. Using two sets of ordinal logit regression models, the study reveals the predominantly significant role of class position in determining self-assessed health, and in turn, the strong associations among social capital, health and perceptions of fairness. In conclusion, the article provides policy implications for treating health inequity in the broader social context of an increasingly complicated class structure in urban China.

Two new false click-beetles from China (Coleoptera: Elateroidae: Eucnemidae)

Meng Ziye,Muona Jyrki,Ruan Yongying,Chen Xiaoqin,Jiang Shihong 한국응용곤충학회 2023 Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology Vol.26 No.2

Thambus planifrons Muona & Meng sp. nov. and Otho rutriclypeus Muona & Meng sp. nov. are described from China. Both genera are recorded for the first time from China. Except for the European T. friwaldszkyi Bonvouloir, 1871, and the Japanese T. curvicaria Hisamatsu, 1956, all other previously known species belonging to Otho were from the Americas. Eight Otho species have been described from disparate parts of Asia earlier. urn:lsid:zoobank.org:pub:10B667F6-F11E-454B-9653-D66A2D7ABFA1.

Comparative Analysis on Antioxidative Ability of Muscle between Laiwu Pig and Large White

Chen, Wei,Zhu, Hong-Lei,Shi, Yuan,Zhao, Meng-Meng,Wang, Hui,Zeng, Yong-Qing Asian Australasian Association of Animal Productio 2012 Animal Bioscience Vol.25 No.8

This study was conducted to evaluate effects of storage temperatures ($4^{\circ}C$ and $20^{\circ}C$) and pig breeds (Laiwu pig and Large White pig) on the main antioxidative enzymes (superoxide dismutase, catalase, and glutathione peroxidase) activity and lipid oxidation in porcine Longissimus dorsi muscle. Activities of antioxidative enzymes (AOE) decreased slightly during storage, regardless of storage temperatures. Muscle antioxidative enzymes activities stored at $4^{\circ}C$ were higher than that stored at $20^{\circ}C$. Laiwu pig's enzymes activities were significantly (p<0.01) higher than Large White's. The level of malondialdehyde is a direct expression of the grade of lipid oxidation in meat. In our study, the malondialdehyde contents increased after 6 days storage. However, malondialdehyde contents of Laiwu pig were significantly (p<0.01) lower than Large White's. A lower content of malondialdehyde corresponds to a lower oxidation of lipids. These results indicated the muscle antioxidative ability of Laiwu pig was higher than Large White pig. It also implied that antioxidative enzymes were involved in the essentials and deciding mechanisms of meat quality by quenching oxygen free radicals and inhibiting lipid oxidation in muscle.

Structural and functional properties of Maillard-reacted casein phosphopeptides with different carbohydrates

Meng Yuan,Yu Cao,Haoyang Zheng,Kunlin Chen,Yuping Lu,Jing Wang,Liqin Zhu,Ming Chen,Zhipeng Cai,Yonggen Shen 한국식품과학회 2024 Food Science and Biotechnology Vol.33 No.7

This study used glucose, fructose, maltose and dextran to explore the effects of different carbohydrates on the Maillard reaction of casein phosphopeptides (CPP). The color parameter results showed that heating time from 1 to 5 h led to brown color, which was consistent with the observed increased in browning intensity. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy results verified that four carbohydrates reacted with CPP to produce Maillard conjugates. Fluorescence spectroscopy showed that the Maillard reaction changed the tertiary structure of CPP by decreasing the intrinsic fluorescence intensity and surface hydrophobicity compared with the CPP-carbohydrate mixture. At the same time, the Maillard reaction effectively improved the emulsifying properties, reducing power and DPPH radical scavenging activity of CPP. Furthermore, this study also found that glucose and fructose improved CPP more than maltose and dextran. Therefore, monosaccharides have good potential in modifying CPP via the Maillard reaction.