An empirical power model of the switch-to-switch links and the hot potato switch in Nostrum has been developed based on an analytical analysis and experiments with Synopsys Power Compiler. The model takes into account all possible variations of bit patterns of packets travelling through the network. It has been validated against Power Compiler simulations and is accurate within a few percent. T...

: Fried products derived from potato, particularly potato crisp have been widely included in food basket of the households in the recent years in Iran. Potato crisp, among other products, is of great importance and is considered as competitive products. This product is in the list of the food products with high acrylamide content. Therefore, due to the nutritional importance of this product and...

Potato image segmentation is an important part of image-based potato defect detection. This paper presents a robust potato color image segmentation through a combination of a fuzzy rule based system, an image thresholding based on Genetic Algorithm (GA) optimization and morphological operators. The proposed potato color image segmentation is robust against variation of background, distance and ...

In sub-Saharan Africa, sweetpotato (Impomoea batatas L.) production is greatly constrained by sweetpotato virus disease (SPVD) complex. This study was conducted to assess the incidence of viruses in healthy-looking sweetpotato in Uganda and to optimise modern technologies for virus diagnosis. A collection of healthy-looking sweetpotato vines from central Uganda were serologically assayed for sw...

Potato (Solanum tuberosum L.) varieties, viz. Kufri Lauvkar (early maturing), Gaurav and Jyoti (medium maturing) were examined during the years 2018–19 2019–20 for seed size tubers production with 3 dates of haulm killing, 70, 80, 90 days after planting under West-Central Indian conditions at ICAR-Central Research Institute, Regional Station Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh. Haulm killing 80 (15.05 t/ha...

Potato psyllid (Bactericera cockerelli) is an important pest of potato, tomato and pepper. Not only could a toxin secreted by nymphs results in serious phytotoxemia in some host plants, but also over the past few years B. cockerelli was shown to transmit "Candidatus Liberibacter solanacearum", the putative bacterial pathogen of potato zebra chip (ZC) disease, to potato and tomato. ZC has caused...

Changes in the diameter of the nucleolus of the dorsal pharyngeal gland (DPGN) in unhatched second-stage juveniles (J2) of potato cyst nematodes, Globodera spp., were monitored for cysts recovered during two field experiments in the Bolivian Central Andes. In the first experiment, cysts were extracted from soil left fallow or supporting crops of potato, barley, lupin, or quinoa. The highest mea...