a non-destructive, rapid and low-cost determination of date fruit moisture content is one of the most determining factors in maturity assessment and processing of this valuable product. on the other hand, the potential of near infrared (nir) spectroscopy in nondestructive internal quality evaluation of agricultural products has been proved throughout several studies. in this research, three mod...

Determination and analysis of vibration behavior of structures for at least first few natural frequencies and mode shapes needs several sensors to be connected at different non node points and exciting the structure at one point. Other method for determination of first few mode shapes is to excite several points of the structure at once and sensing the response from one point.  Both methods nee...

In two recent papers (Adhikari and Woodhouse 2001 Journal of Sound and <ibration 243, 43}61; 63}88), methods were proposed to identify viscous and non-viscous damping models for vibrating systems using measured complex frequencies and mode shapes. In many cases, the identi"ed damping matrix becomes asymmetric, a non-physical result. Methods are presented here to identify damping models which pr...

connective tissue consists of cells separated by the extracellular matrix, whose composition and amount vary according to age, to functional requirements, and to the presence of pathologic conditions. within this non-random macromolecular assembly, collagens, elastin, proteoglycans and structural glycoproteins are mutually interdependent and modifications of one component, by extrinsic (environ...