Model projections suggest that although increased temperature and decreased soil moisture will act to reduce global crop yields by 2050, the direct fertilization effect of rising carbon dioxide concentration ([CO2]) will offset these losses. The CO2 fertilization factors used in models to project future yields were derived from enclosure studies conducted approximately 20 years ago. Free-air co...

in this investigation, the effects of enclosure, restal delayed grazing andcontinued grazing treatments on the production rate and vegetation cover were studied.study area was sadrabad pasture. after selecting three bands (1+1+1=3 hectare area) asthree treatments in the restricted and non restricted area, they were transected to threetransects. then plots (1×2m2 ) were selected to measure the p...

Aperture coupling is the main coupling mode through which electromagnetic pulse (EMP), ultra wideband (UWB) and high power microwave (HPM) can disturb or damage electronic equipments of the missile enclosure. To get knowledge of the coupling effects of apertures with different shapes and positions, coupling processes of HPM into the missile enclosure are investigated. The simulation results ind...

Clean air in the operating room is important during joint replacement surgery. We compared monochromatic ultraviolet radiation of254 nm with the use ofa Charnley-Howorth air enclosure by bacterial air-sampling during 113 total hip arthroplasties. Air samples were taken continuously at the edge of the wound and every 15 minutes at a site 130 cm from the operating table. We also tested the effect...

We investigate the nature of entropy generation for natural convection in a twodimensional square section enclosure vibrating sinusoidally perpendicular to the applied temperature gradient in a zero-gravity field. The enclosure is assumed to fill with porous media. The Darcy momentum equation is used to model the porous media. The full governing differential equations are simplified with the Bo...

Tests for speeding up the determination of the Bernstein enclosure of the range of a multivariate polynomial and a rational function over a box and a simplex are presented. In the polynomial case, this enclosure is the interval spanned by the minimum and the maximum of the Bernstein coe cients which are the coe cients of the polynomial with respect to the tensorial or simplicial Bernstein basis...

This paper presents an optimization methodology for designing radiant enclosures containing specularly-reflecting surfaces. The optimization process works by making intelligent perturbations to the enclosure geometry at each design iteration using specialized numerical algorithms. This procedure requires far less time than the forward ‘‘trial-anderror’’ design methodology, and the final solutio...

The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) at the Pittsburgh Research Laboratory (PRL) is conducting research to reduce the noise exposures of roof bolting machine operators and to prevent additional cases of Noise Induced Hearing Loss (NIHL) thru the development of engineering noise controls. This paper describes and evaluates an engineering noise control for the roof bo...

In this paper, we compare the performance of SBOD and MBOD architectures for storage systems using a command profile based on the Storage Performance Council (SPC-1) Benchmark. The performance comparisons include changes in the strip size, in the number of disks and in the intra-enclosure transmission rate (2Gbps and 4Gbps). We show that performance is maximised with 16kbyte strips and that SBO...

In this article an experimental investigation is made to predict the performance of heated triangular fin array within a vertically oriented and air filled rectangular enclosure. The experimental analysis is done to analyze the effects of several influencing parameters for their wide ranges; Rayleigh number 295214 ≤ Ra ≤ 773410, fin spacing 25 mm ≤ S ≤ 100 mm and fin height 12.5 mm ≤ L ≤ 37.5 m...