colza (canola) is a crop with high rate of grain loss during harvesting. at harvest, semi-dried grains of canola’s pods are either opened or dropped due to mechanical impacts. therefore, lots of grains drop before entering combine head. another obstacle to successful harvest of canola is that ripe grain's pods are twisted together. this results in heavy grain loss at dividers of combine pi...

in this work, we conduct a comparative study among the combine laplace transform and modied adomian decomposition method (lmadm) and two traditional methods for an analytic and approximate treatment of special type of nonlinear volterra integro-differential equations of the second kind. the nonlinear part of integro-differential is approximated by adomian polynomials, and the equation is red...

in this paper, to simulate mechanical stress on the cutter bar of the harvesting combine during cutting of wheat stems, first, shearing strength of the stems was measured for various moisture content levels and cutting heights. after that the cutter bar of combine was simulated by abaqus with the specified conditions. the results of the simulation showed that with increase in moisture content o...

In this work, we conduct a comparative study among the combine Laplace transform and modied Adomian decomposition method (LMADM) and two traditional methods for an analytic and approximate treatment of special type of nonlinear Volterra integro-differential equations of the second kind. The nonlinear part of integro-differential is approximated by Adomian polynomials, and the equation is reduce...

Single features such as line orientation and length are known to guide visual search, but relatively little is known about how multiple features combine in search. To address this question, we investigated how search for targets differing in multiple features (intensity, length, orientation) from the distracters is related to searches for targets differing in each of the individual features. We...

Coordination languages simplify design and development of concurrent systems. Particularly, exogenous coordination languages, like BIP and Reo, enable system designers to express the interactions among components in a system explicitly. A formal relation between exogenous coordination languages comprises the basis for a solid comparison and consolidation of their fundamental concepts. In this p...

The performance of a CMAC neural network depends on the training algorithms and the selection of input points. Papers have been published that explain CMAC algorithms but little work has been done to improve existing algorithms. In this paper, the existing algorithms are first explained and then compared using computational results and the algorithm properties. Improvements are made to the reco...