Publications by authors named "Meng-lei Xia"

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  • Vinegar research has advanced significantly in recent decades, highlighting the need for scientists to stay updated on developments in this field.
  • A bibliometric analysis was conducted on 883 articles from 1998 to 2019, using data from the Web of Science to create a visual knowledge map of vinegar research.
  • Key research themes were identified, including microorganisms, health functions, and production technologies, and future research directions were suggested based on current trends.
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  • - The study introduces an automated method using image processing and support vector machines (SVM) to efficiently screen mold strains, specifically focusing on Monascus colonies.
  • - It achieved an accuracy of 80.6%, which is comparable to traditional methods, and can screen 500 colonies in just 20-30 minutes, making it the fastest published approach.
  • - Utilizing this method, researchers identified 13 high-producing strains, with the top strain yielding 2.8 times more pigment and 1.9 times more lovastatin than the original strain.
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Background: Mass transfer plays an important role in determining the efficiency of the biofuel conversion. However, adverse effect of shear stress from traditional agitation inhibits the cell growth and production of biofuels. How to enhance the mass transfer with less adverse effect is considered as one of the important bioengineering issues.

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The spectrophotometer is the most used analysis equipment in traditional colorimetric methods. However, the operation of using a spectrophotometer is time-consuming and labor-intensive, which presents practical difficulties in rapid detection. To this end, we present a digital color analysis method, using the typical 3,5-dinitrosalicylic acid (DNS) method for glucose detection as an example.

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