the object of this study was evaluation of a walking tractor drawn peanut harvester at different conditions of soil moisture content and forward speed and comparing it with manual harvesting. the evaluation factors for peanut harvester were two levels of soil moisture content and three levels of forward speed. the results revealed that the effect of soil moisture content was only significant on...

The reduction trend of modern microsystem power consumption is balanced by the constant growth of complexity. Traditional batteries are, therefore, no longer sufficient for many applications, since they cannot guarantee a long enough life time [1]. By harvesting energy from the environment, such systems could work for nearly infinite time without the need of replacing batteries. In this paper w...

mushroom production units of kermanshah province were sampled during 2012-13, and 50 fungal isolates were obtained. verticillium fungicola with the most number of isolates, tricoderma harzianum and trichothecium sp. were the most frequent fungi associated with the cultivated mushroom, agaricus bisporus. seven isolates were obtained from the cap of a. bisporus with following characteristics: col...

rice is one of the most important staple cereals‏ ‏in iran and has a main role in providing ‎the food ‎security. harvesting by hand postpone the rice harvesting stage, and facing late season ‎rainfall, and increase of yield losses during harvesting. to determine the most suitable ‎harvesting method in gilan, three different harvesting methods (by hand, harvester and ‎combine) were considered as...

PurposeCurrent commercially available EVLP solutions are designed to mimic physiological conditions support donor lungs outside of the human body. These have been effective at offering for donated after brain death but they limited in their ability cardiac death. To characterize hemodynamics utilizing altered purpose enhancing lung viability, a research device was devised.MethodsThe (fig. 1) is...

green fig, a fruit usually consumed as dried is one of the important non-oil export agricultural commodities of iran. physical properties of green fig are vital parameters as regards the design of such post harvest processing equipments as dryers, sorters and storing chambers. in this research work the effect of moisture content on fruit characteristic dimensions, geometric mean diameter, spher...