peppermint (mentha piperita l.) from lamiaceae family is one of the most important medicinal plants, used in food, sanitary and cosmetic industries. a field experiment was carried out in ferdowsi university of mashhad in 2010-2011 to evaluate the effects of three irrigation levels (100, 80 and 60 percent of water requirements calculated by evaporation pan class a) and two mulch types (black pla...

Network devices, such as switches and routers, process data at rates of terabits per second, forwarding billions of network packets per second. Recently, such devices’ switching chips have been enhanced to support new levels of programmability [3]. Leveraging these new capabilities, a switching chip’s packets classification and modification tasks can now be adapted to implement custom functions...

D espite an increasing amount of experimental data and deeper scientific understanding, deciphering the inner workings of biological brains remains a grand challenge. Investigations into the human brain’s microscopic structure have shown that neuron cells are the key components in the cortex. Each individual neuron is physically very much like other cells in our body, but it’s different in that...

The present study investigated the coupling effect of biodegradation and media filtration in treating hydrocarbon contaminated water. The study recorded reductions in total petroleum hydrocarbon, total dissolved solids, turbidity and microbial load. The study was essentially a simulated pump and treat process that involved the pumping of hydrocarbon contaminated water for treatment in a locally...

scaling (that is, Dennard scaling) provided three benefits: doubling of integration capacity to deliver twice the number of transistors per unit area every two years at constant price, increased transistor performance, and reduced energy per transistor. With the steady erosion of the latter two benefits, the low-hanging fruit for performance increase has been to exploit integration capacity via...

Cassava chips are used as raw materials to manufacture modified cassava flour. To produce high-quality flour, a drying process for is required optimal water content in the range of 15-18% wb. This study aims detect during hybrid hot-air tray dryer with computer vision using convolutional neural network. Three categories chips' wet (water 55-70% wb), semi-dry (20-40% and dry (15-18% wb). In this...

The reverse engineering process for VLSI chips is a complex operation that can cost from $10,000 for the simplest chips to hundreds of thousands of dollars for complex chips. In this study, we present an overview of the process of reverse engineering VLSI chips. The study outlines the steps involved in the process of reverse engineering chips as well as the different techniques used to extract ...