to evaluate the effect of bio-fertilizers on physiological traits in soybean under water deficit condition, agreenhouse experiment was conducted in 2011, at faculty of agriculture, tarbiat modares university,using a factorial design based on rcbd with three replications. the experimental treatments weredifferent irrigation regimes including non-stress (40% water depletion), moderate stress (60%...

We present a mathematical model of solvated crystallization of α-lactose monohydrate and discuss strategies to control the crystallization process in semi-batch mode with the goal to privilege the production of small particles in the range between 130μm and 330μm. We compare specific and unspecific cost functions leading to optimal strategies with significantly different effects on product qual...

To enhance the performance of affective models and reduce the cost of acquiring physiological signals for real-world applications, we adopt multimodal deep learning approach to construct affective models with SEED and DEAP datasets to recognize different kinds of emotions. We demonstrate that high level representation features extracted by the Bimodal Deep AutoEncoder (BDAE) are effective for e...

This paper presents a low cost process for fabrication of high efficiency silicon-based solar cells from front side ARC patterning through contact line metallization. This process utilizes a screen printable etch resist to define the contact pattern and a wet etching solution to remove the exposed ARC layer. The metallization stack for the contact line pattern consists of a nickel silicide ohmi...

Seed oils [SO] are cost‐effective, eco‐friendly and biodegradable in nature. They bear functional groups such as carboxyls, esters, double bonds, active methylenes, hydroxyls, oxirane rings and others, amenable to several derivatization reactions. Their abundant availability, non‐toxicity and rich chemistry has established SO as focal point of polymer production, e.g., production of polyesters,...

This paper describes a bootstrapping algorithm for acquiring a lexicon of subjective adjectives which minimizes the recourse to external resources (such as lexical databases, parsers, manual annotation work). The method only employs a corpus tagged with part-ofspeech information and a seed set of subjective adjectives. The list of candidate subjective adjectives is generated incrementally by lo...

This paper presents evidence showing that favoritism of close peers severely limits the ability of social networks to allocate a new agricultural technology. I use a three-year field experiment where a new and profitable seed variety was first delivered to a random subset of farmers in 82 Indian villages. The diffusion between farmers is then compared with demand that was revealed experimentall...

Germplasm conservation in the form of seed is convenient and most cost-effective ex situ conservation method for plant species producing orthodox seeds. Several species of plantation crops and spices produce non-orthodox seeds, which exhibit intermediate or recalcitrant seed storage behaviour. Storage of these species requires the use of in vitro conservation techniques for shortto medium-term ...

Protease enzyme has lot of commercial applications, so the cost-effective production of protease using sunflower oil seed waste was carried out from Oerskovia xanthineolyitca NCIM 2839. The maximum protease production was after 24 h of incubation with 2.5 % oil seed waste concentration. O. xanthineolytica was found to produce two proteases-P1 and P2. The proteases were purified using 60 % cold ...

Lesquerella fendleri seeds contain a cross-linked carbohydrate gum with viscoelastic properties that may be used for industrial and edible applications. Laboratory studies compared the rheological behavior of gum isolates obtained from whole seed, defatted hull, and defatted meal fractions. Gum yields and rheological properties were determined for gum isolates from each of these fractions. All ...