ebrahim panahpour1*, parviz ahmadi2,  mahmoud shomeili3 1,2- department of soil science, college of agriculture, ahvaz branch, islamic azad university, ahvaz, iran 3- manager agronomi department sugarcane research and training institute khuzestan, iran *corresponding author email: [email protected] received: 22 july 2015                                                                       ...

This paper proposes a knowledge-based model applied to an experimental scale evaporative cane sugar crystallization process, which combines the methods of offline and online knowledge acquisition. Firstly, a data mining method based on rough set theory is utilized to extract information from the large quantity of relevant data obtained in experiment. This method products an offline predictive k...

A simple obstacle detection device, based upon an automobile parking sensor, was assessed as a mobility aid for the visually impaired. A questionnaire survey for mobility needs was performed at the start of this study. After the detector was developed, five blindfolded sighted and 15 visually impaired participants were invited to conduct travel experiments under three test conditions: (1) using...

Dextran is one of the by-products of sour-storage rot of sugar cane (Egan, 1971). The presence of dextran in cane juice entering the mill has many deleterious effects on raw sugar processing and quality (Foster, 1969a,b; Henderson, 1971; Foster and Wright, 1969; Leonard and Richards, 1969). Hence, the removal of the polysaccharide from juice may alleviate these effects. Physico-chemical methods...

Sugar mills in Brazil represent significant capital investments. To maintain appropriate returns on their investment, sugar companies seek to run the mills at capacity over the entire nine months of the sugarcane harvest season. Because the sugar content of cane degrades considerably once it is cut, maintaining inventories of cut cane is undesirable. Instead, mills want to coordinate the arriva...

VP mills require significantly larger volumes of cane supply, than Open Pan (OP) mills (Tribe 1987). The amalgamation of larger cane supply volumes means greater transport distances; which in turn sees pressure being brought on the infrastructure (zones, roads, bridges etc.) supporting the command areas of these mills. LDAs in the sugar industry occur as a general rule on the periphery of Large...

Gonadal and extragonadal sperm reserves were determined in twenty sexually matured domesticated African greater cane rats. Mean (+/-SD) sperm numbers in testes and epididymides were 150.40+/-12.93x10(9) and 259.33+/-13.68x10(9), respectively. The mean epididymal distribution of spermatozoa was found as follows: 67.53+/-12.43x10(9) in caput, 89.10+/-13.20x10(9) in corpus, and 102.70 +/-13.71x10(...

This paper describes preliminary work with radiophosphorus (P-32) undertaken by the author at the S.A.S.A. Experiment Station, Mount Edgecombe. In order to study the root spread of N :Co.376, radiophosphorus in solution was injected into the soil at various distances, positions and depths in relation to the cane row. (Cane planted 3rd October, 1962.) Uptake of this radiophosphorus by the plant ...

The sustainability of land management was assessed for a sugar cane plantation using soil Ž . chemical and physical properties as indicators. The plantation 6000 ha was established in 1979 on a broad alluvial plain and the majority of the soils are classified as Eutric and Mollic Fluvisols Ž . Ž . 73% and Eutric Vertisols 23% . Average annual rainfall is about 2000 mm with a dry season Ž from M...