Milled rice from a laboratory mill and a commercial–scale mill was evaluated for head rice yield using a shaker table and a machine–vision system called the GrainCheck. Comparisons were made for both medium– and long–grain rice varieties. For each variety, samples with different levels of broken kernels were analyzed to determine the performance of the two instruments over a range of head rice ...

This study analyses the impacts of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) introduced on 1 July 2000, and the associated wine tax reform, on both the premium and nonpremium segments of the grape and wine industry using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the Australian economy. Through input cost reductions, the grape and wine industry is projected to gain from the GST tax package. Thus th...

which was discovered in a symmetry classification of nonlocal PDEs with quadratic or cubic nonlinearity. By using the perturbation symmetry approach [7], Novikov found the first few symmetries and a scalar Lax pair for Eq. (1), then proved that it is integrable [9]. Hone and Wang [5] gave a matrix Lax pair for the Novikov equation and found its infinitely many conserved quantities, as well as a...

In sport and education contexts, children are divided into age-groups which are arbitrary constructions based on the admission dates. This age-group system is thought to determine differences in maturity between pupils within the same group, that is, relative age (RA). In turn, these within-age-group maturity differences produce performance gaps, that is, relative age effects (RAE), which might...

An autonomous induction generator (IG) with an asymmetric configuration, in which both the stator and the rotor are single-phase, is often formed when a triple-phase wound rotor loses connection to a winding component while running. The machine still works and is shown to be capable of generating modulated waveforms. Equations can help as an IG design guideline. The first harmonics of the mutua...

The performance of vegetation indexes derived from moderate resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) sensors is explored for drought monitoring in the forests of Northern Tunisia; representing a transition zone between the Mediterranean Sea and the Sahara Desert. We investigated the suitability of biomass and moisture vegetation indexes for vegetation water content expressed by the equivale...

A novel design procedure for a compact multilayer bandpass filter is proposed and examined. The filter is realized using quasi-lumped multilayer resonators. Based on the orientation of these coupled-resonator pairs, a second-order bandpass filter is realized with transmission zeros. In order to achieve a low external quality factor, i.e., a wider filter bandwidth, different types of feeder real...