In apple (Malus domestica Borkh.) sorbitol is the primary product of photosynthesis, the major translocated form of carbon, and a common fruit constituent and storage compound. Previous work on sorbitol metabolism has revealed a NADPH-dependent aldose 6-phosphate reductase (A6PR) in green tissues, and a NAD-dependent sorbitol dehydrogenase in nongreen tissues. Results here show a decrease in so...

Sink relocation is essential in wireless sensor network since relocating sink can balance the traffic load in the midst of multiple nodes and thereby decrease the miss rate of real-time packets. The main constraint in wireless sensor networks is limited energy supply at the sensor nodes so it is important to deploy the sink at a position with respect to the area of interest; a specific area tha...

In many researches on load balancing in MultiSink WSNs, sensors usually choose the nearest sink as destination for sending data. If all sensors in this area all follow the nearest-sink strategy, sensors around nearest sink called hotspot will exhaust energy early and this sink is isolated from network. In this paper, we propose a load balancing scheme for multi-sink WSNs. A mobile anchor with d...

This paper proposes a Context Aware Agent based Military Sensor Network (CAMSN) to form an improved infrastructure for multi-sensor image fusion. It considers contexts driven by a node and sink. The contexts such as general and critical object detection are node driven where as sensing time (such as day or night) is sink driven. The agencies used in the scheme are categorized as node and sink a...

The aim of this paper is to enhance thermal performance of a microchannel heat sink by using nanoencapsulated phase change material (NEPCM) slurry as a cooling fluid instead of pure fluid. A threedimensional model of a circular channel using water slurry of NEPCM was developed. The results show a significant reduction in the mean fluid temperature along the channel and heat sink wall temperatu...

In this paper, we address the problem of deploying sink nodes in a wireless sensor network such that the resulting network topology be robust. In order to measure network robustness, we propose a new metric, called persistence, which better captures the notion of robustness than the widely known connectivity based metrics. We study two variants of the sink deployment problem: sink selection and...

In wireless sensor networks, the sensors collect data and deliver it to a sink node. Most of the existing proposals deal with the traffic flow problem to deliver data to the sink node in an energy-efficient manner. In this paper, we extend this problem into a multi-sink case. To maximize network lifetime and to ensure fairness, we propose (i) how to position multiple sink nodes in a sensor netw...