CE PROJECT 2

ACTIVITY 1-1
CORRECT TENSES FOR RESULTS

Choose the correct tense of the verbs to use when writing or reporting your results and
discussions.

I. Although the emulsions (1) ____ (are, were, will be) physically stable during storage,
(2) ____________ (it is observed, it was observed, it will be observed) that the colour
of all the emulsions (3) ______ (fade, faded, will fade) slightly over time and (4) _____
(be, become, became) lighter especially at higher temperature of 40°C (Figure 8.4).
Initially, the emulsions (5) _____ (are, were, will be) orange in colour as lutein is a
colour pigment with an intense yellow-orange (depending on the concentration) but
the colour intensity of emulsions became lighter due to chemical degradation of
lutein. Indeed, the L value of emulsions (6) ________ (increase, increased, will
increase) while the colour parameters (7) ______ (are found to decrease, were found
to decrease, will be found decreased) during storage at higher temperatures (Table
8.3). The L value (8) _________ (measures, measured, will measured) lightness and
an increase in L value (9) _____ (indicates, indicated, will indicate) colour fading of
emulsions during storage (Qian, Decker, Xiao & McClements, 2012). A decrease in
positive a value (10) ______ (indicates, indicated, will indicate) a decrease in the
redness of the emulsions while a decrease in positive b value (10) _________
(indicates, indicated, will indicate) a decrease in the yellowness (Qian et al., 2012).
Therefore, the colour measurements (11) _______ (indicate/s, indicated, will indicate)
some loss or change of colour in the emulsions during storage, also indicating the
degradation of lutein.
II. We (1) evaluate / evaluated our method with the common energy-based thresholding
(Jinnai et al., 2012) and median clipping (Lasseck, 2013, 2015b). Table 5.5 (2)
summarises / summarised our findings on the same dataset as presented in the
previous section (Table 5.3 and Table 5.4).

We (3) count / counted the number of seconds of target sounds detected instead of
number of bird calls. As we (4) mention / mentioned before, this is not a perfect
comparison, because the reference methods are detecting any sound, while the
wavelet filter only (5) detects / detected target bird sounds. The overall recall of the
proposed segmentation by wavelet filtering method (78%) (6) is / was better than
time domain energy thresholding (47%) and spectrogram-based median clipping
(30%). Another method that could be used would be spectrogram cross correlation
(Cortopassi and Bradbury, 2000). However, this (7) requires / required the manual
selection of a large number of individual calls to act as templates, and (8) degrades /
degraded quickly with noise, and we therefore (9) choose / chose not to use it here.