In this study, different methods for shell splitting and the effect of freezing prior to drying on shell splitting percentage of pistachio were investigated. A completely randomized design was used to investigate the effects of different freezing temperatures (0, -6, -12 and -18°C), different drying temperatures (80, 90 and 100°C) and different cultivars (Akbari and Kalehghouchi) on shell split...

In order to study on some of pistachio cultivars’ contamination of Khorasan-e-Razavi province,eight cultivars of pistachio kernels were collected from the pistachio production areas of this province. Using serial dilution method, 10 grams of ground pistachio was moved to 90 ml water peptone and continuous dilutions 10-1, 10-2 were prepared. Then 0.1 ml from each dilution was inoculated in three...

Reflective teaching, which has gained the status of an integral element of teacher pedagogy, is still an elusive concept, probably because it is merely attainable when teachers are provided with opportunities for building professional knowledge and for showing reflective teaching practices. The present study aimed at examining the English language teachers’ perception of their level of reflecti...

This study set out to provide empirical evidence on the relationship between EFL teachers' emotional intelligence, reflectivity, and autonomy, and their students' L2 performance. The participants of this study included 88 EFL teachers who taught English at different private English teaching institutes and their students (N = 1266). First, the teachers completed three validated questionnaires: E...

In recent years, the demand for mobile multimedia applications has increased tremendously. Since the volume of the application data such as video is high and the bandwidth of mobile channels is limited, efficient compression techniques are very much required (Ghanbari, 2003) (Sikora, 2005). This research area has attracted many researchers since the last 40 years, and many related works have be...

Tetrahedra are special among the platonic solids. They are the simplest polyhedra and the ones most unlike spheres. Surprisingly, much of our knowledge about the packing properties of tetrahedra is very recent: the past year has witnessed a sudden proliferation of novel, and often surprising, findings. Using Monte Carlo simulations, Haji-Akbari et al.[1] found that, upon compression, systems of...