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A study of imbibition, germination and emergence of MAR cotton as influenced by soil physical properties
(1988)
Uniform germination and subsequent emergence of seedlings is the first and probably the most important factor that could affect final yield of a crop. In order to better understand the impact of physical conditions in the ...
Reverse osmosis concentration of orange juice : membrane modeling and performance
(1988)
Membrane concentration was modeled using similitude and dimensional analysis. Pertinent variables selected by this methodology were used to determine a series of dimensionless products to describe and model mass transport ...
An event-oriented hourly precipitation model
(1988)
A simulation model of hourly rainfall amounts was developed to provide hourly precipitation input to a water balance model. The hourly rainfall model consists of four parts: (1) daily rainfall occurrence, (2) event rainfall ...
Environmental factors and physical properties that produce stress cracks in corn
(1988)
Corn (or Maize) kernels may develop stress cracks due to internal stresses when subjected to moisture adsorbing or desorbing environments. Kernels with stress cracks break more readily than sound kernels during handling ...
Kinetics of mixed culture fermentation of multiple substrates
(1988)
Biomass hydrolyzates contain a mixture of hexoses, pentoses and disaccharides, the major components being glucose, xylose and cellobiose. These substrates generally are not all utilized with equal efficiency during ...
Guidance and positioning of a linearly indexed mobile truss complex
(1988)
Three methods of sensing the positions of components of a multi-jointed mobile truss structure and transmitting this information with single bit data to a controller were proposed. A control algorithm utilizing the single ...
Dynamics and damage evaluation of onions and potatoes during post harvest impact separation
(1988)
Tests were conducted with vertical drop test equipment, in order to assess the damage inflicted on subterranean agricultural products, by the use of an impact separator. The previously designed impact separator removes ...
Modeling spatial variability of localized lumber properties
(1988)
The primary objective of this research was to develop stochastic models of localized modulus of elasticity (MOE) and tensile strength (T) for laminating lumber. Detailed information on the variability of localized MOE and ...