Colours and pigments in late ukiyo-e art works: A preliminary noninvasive study of Japanese woodblock prints to interpret hyperspectral images using insitu point-by-point diffuse reflectance spectroscopy. The address for the corresponding author was captured as affiliation for all authors. Please check if appropriate.

In this paper we define a probabilistic testing semantics which can be used to alternatively characterize fair testing. The key idea is to define a probabilistic semantics in such a way that two non-probabilistic processes are fair equivalent iff any probabilistic version of both processes are equivalent in our probabilistic testing semantics. In order to get this result we define a simple probabilistic must semantics by saying that a probabilistic process must pass a test iff the probability with which the process passes the test equals 1. Finally, we present an algorithm for deciding whether the probability with which a finite-state process passes a finite-state test equals 1. Alternatively, this algorithm can be used for computing whether a finite-state process fairly passes a finite-state test.

Aiming at the development of a greener ethylene removal alternative, the goal of this study was to scale up and ensure the safety of α-cyclodextrin nanosponges (α-CD-NS) for further use as ethylene scavengers. The solvent-free synthesis of α-CD-NS was successfully scaled up using α-cyclodextrin and N,N′-carbonyldiimidazole as cross-linkers (1:4 molar ratio) by means of mechanical alloying using a PM 100 ball mill by focusing on varying the rotation frequency, as determined by FTIR-ATR, X-ray diffraction, and TGA. α-CD-NS washing optimization was performed in water by monitoring the imidazole concentration in the washing solution through the validation of a fast and sensitive HPLC-DAD method. After 6 h at 40 °C, all imidazole was extracted, allowing a faster and less energy-dependent extraction. α-CD-NS absorbent capacity and porosity were also evaluated through BET isotherms and ethylene absorption experiments using α-CD-NS and commercially available absorbents (zeolite and bentonite) were performed by means of gas chromatography (GC) coupled to a flame ionization detector (FID). With a 93 µL h−1 kgadsorbent−1 ethylene removal capacity, α-CD-NS revealed the best ethylene scavenging activity when compared to the other absorbents, opening the doors for a safer, innovative, and eco-friendlier ethylene removal active packaging.

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