Human survival and develop-ment are closely linked with the lifesciences. Agriculture, population,medicine, the environment andecology, all of them are inseparablefrom the development of life sci-ences and technologie...Human survival and develop-ment are closely linked with the lifesciences. Agriculture, population,medicine, the environment andecology, all of them are inseparablefrom the development of life sci-ences and technologies, and it is onlife sciences that the human racedepends for sustainable economicdevelopment in the future.展开更多
Boiling processing is commonly used in post-harvest handling of White Paeony Root （WPR）, in order to whiten the herbal materials and preserve the bright color, since such WPR is empirically considered to possess a h...Boiling processing is commonly used in post-harvest handling of White Paeony Root （WPR）, in order to whiten the herbal materials and preserve the bright color, since such WPR is empirically considered to possess a higher quality. The present study was designed to investigate whether and how the boiling processing affects overall quality of WPR. First, an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole/time-of-flight mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approach coupled with multivariate statistical analysis was developed to compare the holistic quality of boiled and un-boiled WPR samples. Second, ten major components in WPR samples boiled for different durations were quantitatively determined using high performance liquid chromatography to further explore the effects of boiling time on the holistic quality of WPR, meanwhile the appearance of the processed herbal materials was observed. The results suggested that the boiling processing conspicuously affected the holistic quality of WPR by simultaneously and inconsistently altering the chemical compositions and that short-time boiling processing between 2 and 10 rain could both make the WPR bright-colored and improve tile contents of major bioactive components, which were not achieved either without boiling or with prolonged boiling. In conclusion, short-term boiling （2-10 min） is recommended for post-harvest handling of WPR.展开更多
Purpose:This research focuses on comparing various service quality measures including disconfirmation measures(performance-minus-importance and performance-minus-expectation),performance-only measure,and importance-we...Purpose:This research focuses on comparing various service quality measures including disconfirmation measures(performance-minus-importance and performance-minus-expectation),performance-only measure,and importance-weighted measures(importance-weighted performance-only and importance-weighted disconfirmation)in a festival setting.It also explores the relationship between the constructs of service quality and other variables including visitors’perceptions of overall service quality,overall satisfaction,and future intentions.Reliability,convergent validity,discriminant validity,and predictive validity of five service quality measures are tested and compared.The result shows that the importance-weighted performance-only measure exhibits the highest reliability and validity.展开更多
The classical design of experiments （DOE） method can optimize systems with one technical response and multiple inputs. The objective of this study is to optimize multiple technical responses at the same time by inte...The classical design of experiments （DOE） method can optimize systems with one technical response and multiple inputs. The objective of this study is to optimize multiple technical responses at the same time by integrating fuzzy logic transformation into a DoE system. The transformation from technical responses to the individual fuzzy responses and the overall fuzzy response are first defined, and the fuzzy response system is established. The method used to optimize the overall fuzzy response is introduced and discussed. The results show that the established fuzzy response system can optimize systems with multiple technical responses and multiple inputs.展开更多
文摘Human survival and develop-ment are closely linked with the lifesciences. Agriculture, population,medicine, the environment andecology, all of them are inseparablefrom the development of life sci-ences and technologies, and it is onlife sciences that the human racedepends for sustainable economicdevelopment in the future.
基金supported by a special fund of China State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine(No.201307008-2)National High Technology Research and Development Plan of China(863 Plain)(No.2014AA022204)+1 种基金Jiangsu Province Six Talent Project(YY-007)Jiangsu Branch of China Academy of Chinese Medical Science(No.JSBN1301)
文摘Boiling processing is commonly used in post-harvest handling of White Paeony Root （WPR）, in order to whiten the herbal materials and preserve the bright color, since such WPR is empirically considered to possess a higher quality. The present study was designed to investigate whether and how the boiling processing affects overall quality of WPR. First, an ultra-high performance liquid chromatography quadrupole/time-of-flight mass spectrometry-based metabolomics approach coupled with multivariate statistical analysis was developed to compare the holistic quality of boiled and un-boiled WPR samples. Second, ten major components in WPR samples boiled for different durations were quantitatively determined using high performance liquid chromatography to further explore the effects of boiling time on the holistic quality of WPR, meanwhile the appearance of the processed herbal materials was observed. The results suggested that the boiling processing conspicuously affected the holistic quality of WPR by simultaneously and inconsistently altering the chemical compositions and that short-time boiling processing between 2 and 10 rain could both make the WPR bright-colored and improve tile contents of major bioactive components, which were not achieved either without boiling or with prolonged boiling. In conclusion, short-term boiling （2-10 min） is recommended for post-harvest handling of WPR.
文摘Purpose:This research focuses on comparing various service quality measures including disconfirmation measures(performance-minus-importance and performance-minus-expectation),performance-only measure,and importance-weighted measures(importance-weighted performance-only and importance-weighted disconfirmation)in a festival setting.It also explores the relationship between the constructs of service quality and other variables including visitors’perceptions of overall service quality,overall satisfaction,and future intentions.Reliability,convergent validity,discriminant validity,and predictive validity of five service quality measures are tested and compared.The result shows that the importance-weighted performance-only measure exhibits the highest reliability and validity.
基金Supported by the Quality Management Group, WZL, RWTH Aachen University
文摘The classical design of experiments （DOE） method can optimize systems with one technical response and multiple inputs. The objective of this study is to optimize multiple technical responses at the same time by integrating fuzzy logic transformation into a DoE system. The transformation from technical responses to the individual fuzzy responses and the overall fuzzy response are first defined, and the fuzzy response system is established. The method used to optimize the overall fuzzy response is introduced and discussed. The results show that the established fuzzy response system can optimize systems with multiple technical responses and multiple inputs.
