physical properties of fruits and vegetables are the subject of many researches because of its importance in designing of agricultural machinery. banana fruit is one of important fruit. in this study some physical properties of banana fruit (cavendish variety) were determined. properties which were measured included weight of whole fruit peel and pulp weight, dimensions, surface area and projec...

in this work, cofe2o4 nanoparticles have been prepared by co-precipitation technique. the synthesized cofe2o4 nanoparticles were applied in the preparation of cofe2o4/polyacrylonitrile fiber nanocomposites by the electrospinning process. the prepared nanoparticles and nanofibers were characterized using the scanning electron microscopy (sem) and x-ray diffraction methods. the results manifested...

in this research, first of all, the existing problems in fragmentation measurement are reviewed for the sake of its fast and reliable evaluation. then, the available methods used for evaluation of blast results are mentioned. the produced errors especially in recognizing the rock fragments in computer-aided methods, and also, the importance of determination of their sizes in the image analysis ...

background & aim: increasing economic role of medicinal herbs in recent society and complexity of modern technologies in production (planting and harvesting), transportation, storage, processing, quality evaluation, distribution, marketing and consumption of these products require a thorough understanding of their physical properties. coefficient of friction of plant on the various surfaces...

to determine the droplet characteristics of agricultural spray nozzles through water sensitive paper (wsp), the non-circular and overlapped spots appearing on the water sensitive paper surfaces are eliminated. in the conventional approach, the procedure is done according to the subjective self determined estimation of the operator. the objective of this study was to develop a practical alternat...

according to the increased fungi contaminations and related damages, microbiologist's incentive in considering the fungal contaminations in human habitats had increased. some of fungi cause disease through production of toxins in animals as well as humans. since these toxins are not easily distinguishable, then it is crucial to study their characteristics. aspergillus are among the most importa...

the aim of this study is to compare the sensitometric properties of commonly used radiographic films processed with chemical solutions in different workload hospitals. the effect of different processing conditions on induced densities on radiologic films was investigated. two accessible double emulsions fuji and kodak films were exposed with 11-step wedge and processed with champion and cpac pr...

background: breast cancer is one of the most important diseases in females. malaysian women have not excluded. according to the malaysian oncology society [1], about 4% of women (who are 40 years old and above) have involved by breast cancer. masses and microcalcifications are two important signs for breast cancer diagnosis on mammography. according to our estimation, radiologists could diagnos...

flow shop sequencing problem is included in np-hard problems and a number of heuristic methods have been developed to solve it. most of these methods are offered for the crisp processing time. however fuzzy algorithm is appropriate for the problems with fuzzy processing time. this paper presents a method in which an algorithm is used to minimize make span of flow shop with fuzzy processing time...