Control Applications in Post-Harvest and Processing Technology 2001

Keynote Papers: Monitoring and control of the internal quality of pears, J. De Baerdemaeker et al; History of development and the state of fruit sorter in Japan, H. Maeda; Application of elastic theory to high-speed impact sensing of fruits, P. Chen; Automatic potato sorting system in underwater ultrasonic instrumentation, F.M. Huang et al. Mathematical Modeling: Heat and mass transfer on fruits, potatoes and vegetables under the influence of air flow - measuring and modelling, K. Gottschalk; Analysis and modelling of the relationship between meteorological course and mass of soil wastes in the sugar-beet industry, G. Riva et al; Modeling of a far infrared vacuum dryer on welsh onion, S. Mongpraneet et al; Modelling of coupled heat and moisture transfer in grain kernels by modified luikov's equations, M. Nemenyi. Quality Evaluation: Characterisation of a potato-shaped instrumented tool to predict mechanical damage to potatoes, T. Van Canneyt et al; Objective method of estimation of post-harvest freshness of eggplant fruits, S.N. Jha, T. Matsuoka; Development of non-destructive detector for abnormal eggs, K. Nakano et al. Quality Control: Visualization of internal structure of foods by electrical impedance tomography - detection of foreign material contamination and voids, K. Toyoda et al; Control of product quality variation in climate controlled operations - with applications to storage and transport of agro-materials, G.J.C. Verdijck et al; Temperature measurement and control during quality drying of apple, I. Seres, I. Farkas. Crop Management: Estimation of plant growth in rice field based on remote sensing, M. Matsuda et al; Rice storage controlled at temperature below ice point for preserving high quality S. Kawamura et al; Data fusion for management of outdoor stored grain, L. Sun, Z. Zhu; Risk management of outdoor grain-storage system Z. Zhu, L. Sun. Control in Post-Harvest Operations I: Controlling Fruits Maturity on Producing Dried Japanese Persimmons, S. Hayashi; Optimal control of fruit responses during storage as affected by temperature, T. Morimoto et al. Control in Post-Harvest Operations II: Response of spinach in controlled pressure conditions during vacuum pre-cooling, L.R. Gutierrez et al; The preservation of cut carnations by applying a non-polar gas, U. Matsushima et al; New agglomerated feed or food products based on wheat bran, J. Grochowicz. Observation for Control: Cell viability of Japanese radish cylinders immersed in hypertonic solutions, S. Koide et al; Cell turgor and elasticity of chicory grown in different temperature conditions, S. Oshita et al; Fungicidal effect of the mixed atmosphere of ozone and negative ions on fruit rot of european pears, M.I. Al-Haq et al. Intelligent Techniques: Artificial Intelligence in dairy farming: near infrared approach, R. Tsenkova, K. Toyoda; Image analysis for planting machine of white cabbage, K. Hatou et al; Neural network model for distributed temperature control, H. Murase et