safflower is a strategic plant regarding to its valuable nutrition value (45% extractable oil) and industrial uses. due to massive import of edible oil to the country as well as high potential for safflower cultivation, the research on production of safflower for oil extrusion purpose is of remarkable importance. the design of various processing and oil extraction units and also their optimizat...

Tendon rupture in dogs is generally the result of a direct trauma. This report described the use of adjacent muscle autogenic fascial graft for reconstruction of distal rupture of long digital extensor tendon in a dog. A two-year-old male mix breed dog, was presented with a non-weight bearing lameness of the right hind limb and a deep rupture of lateral side of right tarsus. History taking reve...

[1] We explore the application of GPS data to earthquake early warning and investigate whether the coseismic ground deformation can be used to provide fast and reliable magnitude estimations and ground shaking predictions. We use an algorithm to extract the permanent static offset fromGPS displacement time series and invert for the slip distribution on the fault plane, which is discretized into...

This section involves the application of probabilistic methods to the prediction of failure for materials. Only the most severe and demanding of these types of problems are considered, namely those of creep rupture and fatigue. Most other types of failure problems can be treated without the complications of statistical specification. Before explicitly getting into these “extreme” problems, some...

In this paper, we present a novel mesh structure for representing the motion in the occlusion areas for video analysis and video coding purposes. We use the notion of crackline which represents a rupture in a motion field and create a non−manifold mesh that allows to estimate the motion in the occlusion areas without degeneration of the triangles. The non−manifold mesh can represent the discont...