to reduce the storing space and handling costs for hay/straw bales, recompressing the original bales after adequate hay drying is recommended. in this project, a recompression machine was designed, constructed and evaluated. solidwork and nastran software were employed to model, and to analyze the stresses in the components of the machine, respectively. the components of the machine consisted o...

Diagnosis and, when possible, prognosis of faults are essential for safe and reliable operation. The area of fault diagnosis has emerged over three decades. The majority of studies are related to linear systems but real-life systems are complex and nonlinear. The development of methodologies coping with complex and nonlinear systems have matured and even though there are many unsolved problems,...

This study evaluated the effects of the method of applying a commercial fibrolytic enzyme, Biocellulase A20 (A20), or ammonia to bermudagrass hay on the feed intake, digestibility, and growth performance of 50 AngusBrangus steers. Five-week fall regrowth of bermudagrass was harvested and treated with either anhydrous ammonia or A20 at rates of 3% dry matter (DM) and 15 g/ton of hay, respectivel...

A serosurvey of various indigenous interior tribes (Orang Ulu) in upper Rejang River Basin Sarawak Malaysia, the site of a multibillion Ringgit hydroelectric power project, found 6.8% of the individual surveyed were seropositive for schistosomiasis, as determined by ELISA method using the soluble egg antigen of Schistosoma malayensis Baling strain. In all age group, the seroprevalence rate is h...

FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON, cattle have a tendency to chew and swallow foreign objects. Amon^ those which have been found in their stomachs are pieces of baling wire and barbed wire, bristles from wire brushes, hairpins, hatpins, knitting needles, pocketknives, different kinds of nails including horseshoe and roofing nails, staples, and scraps of various kinds of metals with sharp ends or cutting ...

Equipment that compacts and bales loose solid waste materials into denser, more easilytransported units is common in refuse disposal and recycling and is used routinely at recycling centers, manufacturing facilities, and retail and wholesale stores to compress paper, textiles, metals, plastic, and other material. Persons operating balers and compactors can become caught by the powered rams of t...