the nw-se trending zagros fold and thrust belt extends for about 1,800 km from a location some 300 km se of the east anatolian fault in ne turkey to the strait of hormuz where the north-south trending zendan-minab-palami fault system (zmp) separates the zagros belt from the makran accretionary prism. the ne limit of the zagros belt is marked by the main zagros reverse fault which is rotated abo...

Dill (Anethum graveolens L.) and parsley (Petroselinum crispum Mill.) were dried by using sun and oven (50oC) drying methods. Oven drying decreased the drying time approximately 50% when compared to the sun drying method for both herbs. K, Ca, P, Mg and Na were the most abundant elements in dill and parsley samples. Oven-dried samples had higher mineral values than that of the su...

Understanding the drying kinetics within a food dryer is an important step towards its improvement. This study investigates of potato slices in recently proposed waste-heat based convective dryer. Statistical analyses are conducted for ten dissimilar mathematical models to choose best fit model experimental data at various temperatures (70 °C, 60 and 50 °C). Results show that Midilli et al. des...

of the Past: A Mixed Spatially Correlated Multinomial Logit Model Approach for the Analysis of the Public Land Survey Data Eun-Hye Yoo, Bruce W. Hoagland, Guofeng Cao, Todd Fagin Department of Geography, University at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY, USA, Oklahoma Natural Heritage Inventory and Department of Geography and Environmental Sustainability, University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, USA, Department of...

In the Standard Model of electro-weak and strong forces, parity is broken explicitly by the choice of inequivalent representations for leftand right-handed fermions. Within the frame work of Yang-Mills-Higgs models this is certainly an aesthetic draw back that physicists have tried to correct by the introduction of left-right symmetric models. These are Yang-Mills-Higgs models where parity is b...

Pure Holsteins (n = 380) were compared to Normande/Holstein crossbreds (n = 245), Montbeliarde/Holstein crossbreds (n = 494), and Scandinavian Red/Holstein crossbreds (n = 328) for 305-d milk, fat, and protein production during first lactation. Scandinavian Red was a mixture of Swedish Red and Norwegian Red. Cows were housed at 7 commercial dairies in California and calved from June 2002 to Jan...

We describe exbar, a powerful new algorithm for the exact inference of minimal deterministic automata from given training data. This algorithm achieves the highest performance ever on a set of graded benchmark problems that has been posted by Arlindo Oliveira. In addition, we note that the inexact program ed-beam, which resulted from the Abbadingo DFA learning competition, also does well on thi...

In a recent paper in this journal, Yang et al. [Feng Yang, Dexiang Wu,Liang Liang, Gongbing Bi & Desheng Dash Wu (2009), supply chainDEA:production possibility set and performance evaluation model] definedtwo types of supply chain production possibility set which were proved to beequivalent to each other. They also proposed a new model for evaluatingsupply chains. There are, however, some short...