as a first step towards mechanization related to any product, including date fruit, it is necessary to have comprehensive information about the product. physical and mechanical properties are needed for the design of post harvest machinery and equipment. the objective of this study was to determine and compare some physical properties such as dimension, mass and volume, particulate density, pit...

The address of three of the authors in the paper by Shahani et al. [Acta Cryst. (2010), E66, o3020-o3021] is corrected.[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1107/S1600536810043886.].

demographic analyses of dubas bug, ommatissus lybicus de bergevin, (hemiptera: tropiduchidae), reared on five date palm varieties (zahdi, mazafati, piarom, khasi, and shahani) were constructed under laboratory conditions at 27±1ºc, 70±5% rh, and a 14:10 hours (l: d) photoperiod. data were analyzed based on the age-stage, two-sex life table theory to take the variable developmental rate among in...

1. Shahani L, Hamill RJ. Therapeutics targeting inflammation in the immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome. Transl Sir, HIV immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is one of the most significant challenges of highly active antiretroviral treatment (ART) faced by physicians across the world. Through this letter, I wish to draw the attention of readers to a simple aware, alert, av...

The physicochemical composition changes during palm ripening were studied. The activities of invertase and cell wall-modifying enzymes, namely pectin methylesterase (PME), β-galactosidase (β-Gal), endo-1,4-β-D-glucanase (EGase), and cellulase were monitored during growth and ripening of Shahani, Piarom and Deiry cultivars with different textures. Also, we estimated the concentrations of six org...

oligonychus afrasiaticus mcg is a key pest on kabkab and khasi date cultivars in behbehan. this research was conducted based on randomized complete block designs with 9 cultivars and 3 replications in behbehan agricultural research station during 2008 and 2009. the main idea of the investigation was the response assessment of these cultivars to the spider mite. the cultivars included kabkab, kh...

the potential of fourier transform near-infrared (ft-nir) spectroscopy technique was applied to determine moisture and soluble solids content of shahani date fruit. spectral acquisitions were carried out in reflectance mode using a ft-nir spectrophotometer in the range of 12000- 4000cm-1. three different preprocessing methods namely: multiplicative scatter correction (msc), first and second der...