bacillus subtilis k40b was isolated from rice rhizospheres and its potential for production of xylanase was evaluated using biochemical methods. the gene for xylanase in b. subtilis k40b was amplified, sequenced and assigned to the ncbi genebank. the gene size was estimated to be 563 bp encoding 413 amino acids. comparison of the xylanase gene with reference sequences showed that the xylanase o...

withdrawal of oil and gas from reservoirs causes a decrease in pore pressure and an increase in effective stress which results to a reservoir compaction. reservoir compaction will result in surface subsidence through the elastic response of the subsurface. usually in order to determine the subsidence above a hydrocarbon field, the reservoir compaction must be first calculated and then the effec...

kermanshah province is the main producer of various chickpea cultivars in iran. in this study a laboratory peg-tooth thresher was employed for chickpea threshing. the effect of cylinder speed (9, 12, 15 m/s), concave clearance (12, 14, 16 mm), feed rate (80, 160, 240 kg/h) and material moisture content (5, 10, 15% w.b.) was studied on percentage of grain damage, threshing efficiency and percent...

Fitting response surface models is usually carried out using statistical packages to solve complicated equations in order to produce the estimates of the model coefficients. This paper proposes a new procedure for fitting response surface models to mixed two-level and four-level factorial designs. New and easier formulae are suggested to calculate the linear, quadratic and the interaction coeff...

introduction: nowadays, with the development of imaging systems and image processing algorithms, a new branch of agriculture and food industry quality control has emerged. meat and related products have high commercial value and they are one of the most important items of household food basket (jackman et al., 2011). the apparent color of the meat is one of the most important ranking factors wh...