abstract seed deterioration of seed is one of the most important limiting or even hindering factors in germination. the main purpose of this study was to determine the effects of salicylic acid and gibberellic acid hormonal on improvement and prevailing seed deterioration in two sesame cultivars. this studywere carried out at the department of agronomy and plant breeding seed laboratories of co...

In today’s digital age, industrial methods are shifting away from humans and toward machines. We choose automated systems for various jobs related to production systems, such as screening, manufacturing. A smart manufacturing system is one in which machines take the place of humans. Under influence inflation, this study proposes a production-inventory model with partial backlogging, an imperfec...

Ripening and senescence are the ultimate phases in the developmental events of fruits that result in the expression of the quality characteristics inherent to the fruit. Although it is difficult to demarcate a dividing point between ripening and senescence, the former can be designated as the quality-developing phase, whereas the latter predominantly involves the loss of quality. Degradation of...

In this paper, the potential use of an exponential hidden Markov model to model a hidden pavement deterioration process, i.e. one that is not directly measurable, is investigated. It is assumed that the evolution of the physical condition, which is the hidden process, and the evolution of the values of pavement distress indicators, can be adequately described using discrete condition states and...

The process industry is increasingly making use of Risk Based Inspection (RBI) techniques to develop cost and/or safety optimal inspection plans. This paper proposes an adaptive Bayesian decision model to determine these optimal inspection plans under uncertain deterioration. It uses the gamma stochastic process to model the corrosion damage mechanism and Bayes’ theorem to update prior knowledg...

In this study, PP films were modified with an organic pro-degradant in different concentrations (1, 2 and 3 wt.%), exposed in the first step of degradation to natural ageing for 100 days followed by biodegradation in simulated soil in the respirometric test for 100 days. At the end of the combined degradation process the PP samples were characterized according to their morphological and physica...

*Correspondence: [email protected] 3Department of Statistics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, 120-750, Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In the present paper we consider ageing properties in a deterioration model in which the stochastic process measuring deterioration is a process with independent increments. Preservation of increasing and decre...

OBJECTIVE To elucidate the relationship between the subjective assessment in patients with glaucoma of (1) the severity of their visual loss, and (2) any deterioration in their visual function and their objective visual fields as measured by computed perimetry. DESIGN First, patients completed a questionnaire relating to perceived visual disability and underwent binocular visual field testing...