safflower is a strategic plant regarding to its valuable nutrition value (45% extractable oil) and industrial uses. due to massive import of edible oil to the country as well as high potential for safflower cultivation, the research on production of safflower for oil extrusion purpose is of remarkable importance. the design of various processing and oil extraction units and also their optimizat...

the derakhte senged area is located in south of neishaboor town at khorasan razavi province. in this research, desertification intensity of derakht senged area was evaluated using imdpa, one of the newest method to assess desertification potential in arid and semi arid regions of iran. to evaluate desertification intensity, based on the primary research in this area, 4 criteria were selected in...

introduction: soil aggregate stability is a key factor in soil resistivity to mechanical stresses, including the impacts of rainfall and surface runoff, and thus to water erosion (canasveras et al., 2010). various indicators have been proposed to characterize and quantify soil aggregate stability, for example percentage of water-stable aggregates (wsa), mean weight diameter (mwd), geometric mea...

a study has been made of the compaction properties of two experimental starches, namely yam starch obtained from dioscorea rotundata and rice starch obtained from oryza sativa and the mechanical properties of their tablets, in comparison with those of official corn starch. the influences of the physical and geometric properties of the starch particles on the compression properties of the starch...

A study has been made of the compaction properties of two experimental starches, namely yam starch obtained from Dioscorea rotundata and rice starch obtained from Oryza sativa and the mechanical properties of their tablets, in comparison with those of official corn starch. The influences of the physical and geometric properties of the starch particles on the compression properties of the starch...

The majority of hydraulic processes under a natural condition in a field are carried out under unsaturated flow conditions. The soil moisture retention curve (SMRC) is the most important hydraulic characteristic of an unsaturated soil whose knowledge is of prime importance in soil-water studies such as soil conservation, soil erosion, land evaluation, soil reclamation, and water resources manag...

Few researchers investigating the survival to emergence of embryonic salmonids have simultaneously compared the predictive ability of the percentage of fine sediment less than a given diameter, the geometric mean particle size, and the fredle index. We quantified the relation between these different measures of suhstrate compoaition and survival to emergence of two stocks of brown trout, Salmo ...