pistachio nuts are the major non-oil export agricultural commodity in iran. the existence of empty shells among the shells with kernels reduces the quality of the nuts and, consequently, their market value. in pistachio processing plants, empty shells are generally separated from shells with kernels by the flotation method. but this method is not precise and may encourage the growth of fungi in...

Abstract Quantum Dot Infrared Photodetector (QDIP) is one of the promising candidates for infrared photodetection due to its controllable heterojunction bandgap and sensitivity normal incident radiation. It expected be superior photodetectors mature technologies such as Mercury Cadmium Telluride (HgCdTe) or a quantum well photodetector. In presented paper, we have developed theoretical model da...

The story of the "cylindrical saxophone" started with Benade (1988). The basic idea is that when the length of the missing part of a truncated cone is smaller than the wavelength, and therefore smaller than the length of the truncated cone, the behavior of a conical reed instrument has similarities with that of a cylindrical pipe excited by a reed on its side, at an intermediate location. The s...

An effective two-body interaction is constructed from a new Reidlike NN potential for a large no-core space consisting of six major shells and is used to generate the shell-model properties for light nuclei from A=2 to 6. For practical reasons, the model space is partially truncated for A=6. Binding energies and other physical observables are calculated and they compare favorably with experimen...