Thesis (M. A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2007. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.

The theoretical part of the thesis: Quality of thermophilic fruit during storage, includes description of thermophilic species and storage conditions, also includes a chapter on diseases and pests of the species, their composition and new trends in storage: Xtend packaging material. In the practical part of the thesis, apricots (variety Betinka and Moi Chua Sin) were stored in three variants: free storage fruits, storage in a polyethylene package and Xtend at a temperature of approximately 1°C and humidity around 80 %. Under these conditions, was monitored health status, weight loss, the weight of the fetus and the pips, the dimensions of the fruits and the index of the shape, soluble solids, titration acids and the firmness of the fruits. The results were evaluated statistically in tables and graphs. As the most suitable option for storage was evaluated for storage in Xtend.

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Made available in DSpace on 2016-12-12T20:15:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 FlavioPrebianca.pdf: 9416283 bytes, checksum: 8370dafefe8b91b42b5d6117aaae5da3 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-12-04 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / The Chua s circuit is an electronic oscillator that has a non-linearity coupled to an LC oscillator, enabling the study of experimental chaos. Using the method of feedback with sine function of the voltage from C1 capacitor, indirectly alters the nonlinear curve of the circuit, with new operation points allowing the emergence of four scroll attractors. A consequence of this feedback is the emergence of a new chaotic region in the parameter space. We present here a qualitative numerical study simulated via MULTISIM/SPICE. It also presents the study by fourth order Runge-Kutta numerical integration for the construction of the parameter space of the largest Lyapunov exponent and bifurcation diagram. It explores the crisis region in the numerical study and show the experimental attractors in this phenomenon. We seek to compare the crisis phenomenon relating the number of visits that system is in the regions +V1 and −V1. / O circuito de Chua é um oscilador eletrônico que possui uma não-linearidade acoplada a um oscilador LC, viabilizando o estudo de caos experimental. Utilizando o método de realimentação por função senoidal da tensão do capacitor C1, altera-se indiretamente a curva não linear do circuito, com novos pontos de operação do oscilador, possibilitando o surgimento de atratores de quatro rolos. Uma consequência desta realimentação ´e o surgimento de uma nova região de caos no espaço de parâmetros. Apresenta-se neste trabalho, o estudo numérico qualitativo simulado via MULTISIM/SPICE. Também apresenta o estudo por integração numérica pelo método Runge-Kutta de quarta ordem, para a construção do espaço de parâmetros do maior expoente de Lyapunov e diagrama de bifurcação. Explora-se a região de crise no estudo numérico e mostra-se atratores experimentais em tal fenômeno. Buscamos comparar o fenômeno de crise relacionando o numero de visitas que o atrator faz nas regiões +V1 e −V1.

This master‘s thesis deals with analysis of electronic dynamical systems exhibiting chaotic solution. In introduction, some basic concepts for better understanding of dynamical systems are explained. After introduction, current knowledge from the world of circuits exhibiting chaotic solutions are discussed. The best-known chaotic systems are analyzed numerically in Matlab software. Numerical analysis and experimental verification were demonstrated at C class transistor amplifier, which confirmed the chaotic behavior and generation of a strange attractor.

Increasingly, postcolonial scholars are recognising that the discipline must move beyond the mere critique of European imperialism, and that the future lies, in part, in seeking solutions to the conflicts and injustices that remain the persistent legacy of the colonial era. A concurrent trend in literature departments has been the push to incorporate and encourage comparative methodologies. This essay brings into conversation two works of Asian American fiction that address the problematics of transnational encounter in the age of globalisation. In both Ha Jin's "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" and Lawrence Chua's Gold by the Inch the authors explore familiar postcolonial themes: Western economic and cultural hegemony, cultural imperialism, the legacy of the Euro-American colonial era - yet they do so from a very particular (and increasingly common) perspective that as yet has not been sufficiently addressed by postcolonial scholars. Reading these texts through the lens of Roger Célestin's theorisation of the limits of traditional literary exoticism in From Cannibals to Radicals, this essay calls for a re-evaluation, not merely of our understanding of literary exoticism, nor merely of our understanding of the transpacific as a political imaginary, but also of our long-held conceptions of national literature and comparative scholarship.

Increasingly, postcolonial scholars are recognising that the discipline must move beyond the mere critique of European imperialism, and that the future lies, in part, in seeking solutions to the conflicts and injustices that remain the persistent legacy of the colonial era. A concurrent trend in literature departments has been the push to incorporate and encourage comparative methodologies. This essay brings into conversation two works of Asian American fiction that address the problematics of transnational encounter in the age of globalisation. In both Ha Jin's "After Cowboy Chicken Came to Town" and Lawrence Chua's Gold by the Inch the authors explore familiar postcolonial themes: Western economic and cultural hegemony, cultural imperialism, the legacy of the Euro-American colonial era - yet they do so from a very particular (and increasingly common) perspective that as yet has not been sufficiently addressed by postcolonial scholars. Reading these texts through the lens of Roger Célestin's theorisation of the limits of traditional literary exoticism in From Cannibals to Radicals, this essay calls for a re-evaluation, not merely of our understanding of literary exoticism, nor merely of our understanding of the transpacific as a political imaginary, but also of our long-held conceptions of national literature and comparative scholarship.

Le Nem chua est un produit vietnamien fermenté à base de viande porcine. Notre étude a pour but de formuler des starters lactiques afin de standardiser le processus de fabrication du Nem chua et améliorer la qualité des produits finis. Le pH de la pâte de viande diminue progressivement tandis que la population lactique se développe au cours des 5 jours de fermentation. Parmi les 131 souches identifiées, les Lactobacillus brevis et Lb. plantarum étaient les plus fréquents. Les autres bactéries lactiques telles que Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Pediococcus pentosaceus, Lactococcus lactis sont présentes mais en plus faible pourcentage. L’utilisation de la combinaison des Lb. brevis et Pe. pentosaceus (6.106 UFC.g-1 pâte de viande, proportion de 1:1) donne des produits préférés par le jury de dégustateurs vietnamiens. Ces résultats permettent d’ouvrir de nouvelles perspectives de production et d’application au niveau industriel des starters lactiques choisis afin d’avoir les produits à la qualité bien maîtrisée et en sécurité alimentaire dans la fabrication des Nem chua du Vietnam, qui pouvant s’appliquer à d’autres fermentations carnées similaires. / Nem chua is a very popular fermented meat product in Vietnam. Our research aimed at the formulation of autochthonous starter cultures in order to standardise the production process of Nem chua and to improve the quality of final product. The paste meat pH progressively decreased while LAB increased during the fermentation. Among 131 isolates identified, the most frequent LAB revealed were Lactobacillus brevis and Lb. plantarum. The other LABs such as Leuconostoc mesenteroides, Pediococcus pentosaceus, Lactococcus lactis, … existed in lowest percentage. The results of our sensorial experiments demonstrated significant effects of Lb. brevis and Pe. pentosaceus strains, which were previously isolated from Nem chua, on the sensory quality of this traditional fermented meat product. The use of both Lb. brevis and Pe. pentosaceus strains (6.106CFU.g-1 meat paste, strain ratio of 1:1) as starters for Nem chua offered the best sensorial quality. These results suggest further studies on the practical ability of using and producing these LABs in combination as commercial starters in order to produce products of well-controlled quality and safety for Nem chua in Vietnam and probably of other similar fermented meat products.

Estudamos o comportamento dinâmico de séries temporais experimentais obtidas de um circuito de Chua quando dois parâmetros de controle, $Delta R_1$ e $Delta R_2$, são variados.Investigamos os comportamentos caótico e periódico, analisando as séries temporais ao redor e no interior de duas janelas periódicas presentes no espaço de parâmetros $(Delta R_1,Delta R_2)$ do circuito. Na vizinhança da janela de período três, analisamos como a dinâmica simbólica se altera quando construída em diferentes seções de Poincaré de um mesmo atrator, e investigamos a dimensão dos mapas de retorno, uni ou bidimensional, para diferentes atratores caóticos presentes nessa região do espaço de parâmetros. Ainda nessa vizinhança, empregamos técnicas de caracterização topológica para confirmar a existência de fibras caóticas, que são curvas de codimensão um no espaço de parâmetros onde as propriedades caóticas dos atratores são preservadas.Ao redor da janela de período quatro, investigamos a transição entre os três comportamentos caóticos para os quais construímos os respectivos moldes topológicos. Propusemos também um molde topológico para o regime caótico após a crise por fusão ocorrer no circuito. Finalizando, investigamos as bifurcações e a estrutura topológica das órbitas periódicas que formam as janelas de período três e de período quatro, construindo um espaço de parâmetros topológico, baseado em um mapa bi-modal, para descrever as duas janela periódicas. / We have studied the dynamical behavior of experimental time series obtained from a Chua's circuit by variation of two parameter control, $Delta R_1$ and $Delta R_2$. We investigated the chaotic and periodic behaviors of the circuit, analyzing temporal series around and inside of two periodic windows in the two-parameter space $(Delta R_1,Delta R_2)$. In the period-three window neighborhood, we analyzed how the symbolic dynamics changes when it is built by different Poincaré sections of an attractor, and we studied the dimension of return map, one- or two-dimensional, for many chaotic attractors in this region of the parameter space. In this neighborhood, we also applied topological techniques to confirm the existence of chaotic fibers: codimension one curves where the chaotic properties of the attractors remain unchanged in the two-parameter space.Around the period-four window, we investigated, by template analysis, the transition between three chaotic attractors found in the Chua's circuit. We proposed a template for chaotic regime of the circuit after merge-crisis. Finally, we investigated the bifurcations and topological structure of periodic orbits in period-three and period-four windows and also proposed a topological parameter space, based in a bimodal map model, that describe these two periodic windows.

En esta tesis se ha abordado el problema de la determinación directa del régimen permanente de circuitos no lineales autónomos con parámetros distribuidos en el dominio temporal. Con la obtención de las ecuaciones de equilibrio en el dominio transformado de Laplace, es posible escribir directamente el sistema de ecuaciones discretizado en el dominio temporal, donde las incógnitas son el periodo de oscilación y las muestras de las variables de control. Así, toda variable genérica V(s) es transformada en un vector de muestras equiespaciadas de v(t), y cada uno de los operadores, derivada y retardo, en una matriz circulante. La formulación obtenida es tal que posibilita el posterior desarrollo analítico de la sensibilidad del sistema de ecuaciones discretizado respecto al periodo de oscilación y las muestras de las variables de control, permitiendo una eficaz resolución del sistema de ecuaciones utilizando métodos globalmente convergentes basados en modificaciones del método de Newton. Además, con el método de análisis propuesto, es posible reconvertir un problema de optimización en un problema de análisis y, en consecuencia, de menor complejidad. La utilización de los aproximantes de Padé multipunto, para aproximar una línea de transmisión RLCG con elementos de parámetros concentrados y una línea de transmisión ideal, permite extender el método propuesto a los circuitos que incorporan líneas RLCG.Una vez determinadas las soluciones en régimen permanente, el siguiente problema a abordar es el estudio de la estabilidad de estas soluciones, utilizándose los resultados de este estudio para detectar bifurcaciones de Hopf, de desdoblamiento de órbitas y puntos límite. En esta tesis se describe una técnica que permite seguir a) la rama que continua tras la aparición de un punto límite y b) la rama de periodo doble existente en una bifurcación de desdoblamiento de órbitas, como se comprueba sobre el circuito de Chua retardado (TDCC),Otra aportación de esta tesis, desarrollada íntegramente en el plano teórico, ha consistido en estrechar los lazos existentes entre el estudio de la estabilidad en el dominio temporal y el dominio frecuencial. El punto de partida se encuentra en la obtención de una transformación que permite trasladar cualquier formulación de análisis del dominio frecuencial al temporal y viceversa. La extensión de estos vínculos al estudio de la estabilidad deriva en la obtención de importantes resultados. Destaca, entre éstos, la obtención de la formulación de estabilidad utilizada por el método de balance armónico (HB), partiendo de un estudio de la estabilidad realizado en el dominio temporal. Estos resultados se complementan con los obtenidos por otros autores que, partiendo de una formulación en el dominio temporal con variables de estado, obtienen una formulación en el dominio frecuencial. Con la finalidad de no avanzar en el vacío, las ideas que aparecen en esta tesis han sido siempre contrastadas, en algunos casos por más de una vía. Así, el circuito de Van der Pol se analiza con el método de HB y con el método propuesto utilizando tres formulaciones distintas. El estudio de la estabilidad de los puntos de equilibrio del TDCC se contrasta con resultados analíticos. La determinación de las regiones de funcionamiento del circuito de Van der Pol excitado y la construcción de su curva solución se comparan con los resultados obtenidos usando HB. Los resultados de análisis del TDCC con línea RLCG son contrastados con los resultados obtenidos utilizando métodos de integración. Finalmente, se realiza una validación experimental del oscilador con línea de transmisión, sobre el cual se resuelve un problema de análisis y otro de optimización. / This thesis has tackled the problem of the direct determination of the steady state analysis of autonomous circuits with transmission lines and generic nonlinear elements. With the equilibrium equations obtained in the Laplace transformed domain, it is possible to directly write the discretized system of equations in the temporal domain where the unknowns to determine are the samples of the control variables, directly in the steady state, along with the oscillation period. Thus, every generic variable V(s) is converted into a vector of equally spaced samples of v(t) and each one of the operators, derivative and delay, into a circulant matrix. The formulation obtained is such that makes it possible the subsequent analytic development of the sensibility of the system of equations discretized with respect to the oscillation period and the samples of the control variables, allowing to solve the system of equations effectively using globally convergent techniques based on modifications of the Newton method. Moreover, with the analysis method suggested here, it is possible to turn a problem of optimization into a problem of analysis and, subsequently, of a lesser complexity. Besides, the use of the multipoint Padé approximants, to approximate an RLCG transmission line with lumped elements and an ideal transmission line, makes it possible to extend the suggested method to the circuits that include RLCG transmission lines.Once the steady state solutions have been determined, the next problem to deal with is the study of the stability of these solutions. The results of this study are used to detect Hopf bifurcations, period-doubling bifurcations and limit points. In this thesis a technique is described which allows us to follow a) the branch that follows after the appearance of a limit point and b) the branch of double period that exists in a period-doubling bifurcation point, as it can be proved in the time delayed Chua's circuit (TDCC).Another contribution of this thesis, totally developed at a theoretical level, has consisted in strengthening the existing bonds between the study of the stability both in the temporal and in the frequency domain. The starting point is a transformation that makes it possible to transfer any analysis formulation from the frequency domain to the temporal one and vice versa. The extension of these links to the study of the stability leads to important results. It stands out, among them, the obtained formulation of stability used by the harmonic balance (HB) method, starting from a stability study made in the temporal domain. These results complement each other with those obtained by other authors who, starting from a formulation in the temporal domain with state variables, obtain a formulation in the frequency domain. With the purpose of validating the ideas that appear in this thesis, these have always been contrasted, in some cases in more than one way. Thus, the Van der Pol oscillator is analyzed with the HB method and with the method suggested here using three different formulations. The study of the stability of the equilibrium points of the TDCC is contrasted with analytic results. The determination of the working regions of the excited Van der Pol oscillator and the construction of its solution curve is compared with the results obtained using HB. The results of the analysis of the TDCC with RLCG line are contrasted with those obtained using integration techniques. Finally, an experimental validation of an oscillator with transmission line is made, in which a problem of analysis and another one of optimization are solved.