Fiber-optics enable direct optical spectroscopy (from the infared to the ultraviolet; in
absorption, emission and plasmonic resonance) to be performed at inaccessible sites, over …

The global citrus industry is continually confronted by new technological challenges to meet
the ever-increasing consumer awareness and demand for quality-assured fruit. To face …

This review covers the application of Genetic Algorithms (GAs) in Chemometrics. The first
applications of GAs in chemistry date back to the 1970s, and in the last decades, they have …

In recent years, due to the increasing consciousness of food safety and human health, much
progress has been made in developing rapid and nondestructive techniques for the …

Thailand was classified as a middle-income country and ranked second highest in terms of
road traffic fatality rate in the world in 2015. By 2018, this ranking went up to ninth in world …

This study was implemented for non-destructive prediction of total soluble solids (TSS),
titratable acidity (TA) and calculation of TSS/TA as a measure of maturity index in intact limes …

Of the many varieties of date palms, the species Phoenix dactylifera Linn. is cultivated
extensively and traded and consumed worldwide. Dates: Production, Processing, Food, and …

The global orange industry constantly faces new technical challenges to meet consumer
demands for quality fruits. Instead of traditional subjective fruit quality assessment methods …

Diffuse reflectance near infrared (NIR) spectroscopy was explored as a non-destructive
method to detect external and internal quality of Valencia oranges. The study compared …

The aim of this study was to evaluate the potential of the successive projection algorithm for
interval selection in partial least squares (iSPA-PLS) together with near-infrared reflectance …