Cline, J. A. and Trought, M. 2007. Effect of gibberellic acid on fruit cracking and quality of Bing and Sam sweet cherries. Can. J. Plant Sci. 87: 545–550. Rain-induced cracking of sweet cherries (Prunus avium L.) is a major problem in many cherry growing regions throughout the world. One method to reduce cracking is to grow cracking resistant cultivars; however, no completely effective control...

In the purely theoretical approach of pavement design, percentage fatigue cracking is related to damage in a probabilistic manner according to the Miner’s law. Two methods that are currently widely in use are based on assumptions of damage distribution. One method assumes fatigue damage being normally distributed, while the other one assumes fatigue damage being lognormally distributed. Since m...

This paper talks about the self-oraganized index maintainance approach of database cracking. It provides fundamental knowledge as well as the description of a basic implementation of database cracking. Alongside multiple cracking algorithms, the implementation also contains the code of a cracking index. By combining these two features the implementation allows the execution of range queries on ...

With the rapid development of internet technologies, social networks, and other related areas, user authentication becomes more and more important to protect the data of the users. Password authentication is one of the widely used methods to achieve authentication for legal users and defense against intruders. There have been many password cracking methods developed during the past years, and p...

in this work, ferric coagulation and acid cracking as olive mill wastewater (omw) pretreatments during photocatalysis process were compared in batch recirculation reactor. as ferric ions influence, ferric coagulation has preference over acid cracking. ferric ions influence on intensification of penolic components absorption on tio2 surfacein initial and oxidize organic pollutant during photocat...

The various mechanisms that have been put forward to explain stress-corrosion cracking are briefly summarized. The experimental observations of stress-corrosion cracking in titanium alloys in widely different environmer a are discussed. Evidence from the literature for and against the possibility that hydrogen plays a role in the stress-corrosion cracking of titanium alloys is documented. An ex...

try (HPI), cracking is the process whereby complex organic molecules (e.g.heavy hydrocarbons) are broken down into simpler molecules by the breaking of carbon-carbon bonds in the base material. The rate of cracking and the nature of end products strongly depend on the temperature and presence of any catalysts. Process automation equipment including gas analysis instrumentation contributes essen...

Kernels of Nonpareil almond and advanced breeding selections 23.5–16 and 23–122 were evaluated for similarities and differences in commercially important kernel characteristics. These three almond types did not differ in kernel mass, kernel length and width, nor in kernel color coordinates, luminosity and hue. Nonpareil kernels were observed to be significantly (p 6 0.05) thicker than kernels o...

Cracking sounds emitted from human synovial joints have been attributed historically to the sudden collapse of a cavitation bubble formed as articular surfaces are separated. Unfortunately, bubble collapse as the source of joint cracking is inconsistent with many physical phenomena that define the joint cracking phenomenon. Here we present direct evidence from real-time magnetic resonance imagi...

Expansion and cracking induced by the corrosion of reinforcement concrete is the major factor in the failure of concrete durability. Therefore, monitoring of concrete cracking is critical for evaluating the safety of concrete structures. In this paper, we introduce a novel monitoring method combining Brillouin optical time domain analysis (BOTDA) and fiber Bragg grating (FBG), based on mechanic...