the present study was undertaken to investigate and optimize the possibility of xanthan gum production by xanthomonas campestris ptcc1473 in 500ml shake flasks on the second grade date palm. using an experimental response surface methodology (rsm) coupled with a central composite design (ccd), three major independent variables (nitrogen source, phosphor source and agitation rate) were evaluated...

Contemporary Semantic Web research is in the business of optimizing algorithms for only a handful of datasets such as DBpedia, BSBM, DBLP and only a few more. This means that current practice does not generally take the true variety of Linked Data into account. With hundreds of thousands of datasets out in the world today the results of Semantic Web evaluations are less generalizable than they ...

one of the main distinctions between geomaterials and other engineering materials is the spatial variation of their properties in different directions. this characteristic of geomaterials -so called heterogeneity- is studied herewith. several spatial distributions are introduced to describe probabilistic variation of geotechnical properties of soils. among all, the absolute normal distribution ...

in this research, chilling and heating requirements of six local cultivars of apricot (jafari, ghavami, jahangiri, khiari, khiveaee and rajabali) were evaluated under field and lab conditions. under lab condition, ‘rajabali’ and in some extent ‘johangiri’ began flowering after 500 hours in 4°c. other cultivars except ‘khiari’ flowered at 750 h. ‘khiari’ flowered at 1000 h. in field, due to litt...