Decline in postharvest losses of kiwifruit depended to maintain of quality characteristics during storage and transportation. Storage losses caused serious economic losses in kiwifruit. This study was conducted to inhibition of pathogen infection and increasing fruit quality of Kiwifruit. Hayward kiwifruits inoculated by B.cinerea conidia through pore wounds which formed by removal of the pedic...

Haematophagous insects suffer big changes in water needs under different levels of starvation. Rhodnius prolixus is the most important haematophagous vector of Chagas disease in the north of South America and a model organism in insect physiology. Although there have been some studies on patterns of gas exchange and metabolic rates, there is little information regarding water loss in R. prolixu...

This thesis uses measurements from a deployed wireless ad hoc network to illustrate the effects of link loss rates on routing protocol performance. Measurements of this network show that the radio links between the majority of nodes have substantial loss rates. These loss rates are high enough to decrease forwarding performance, but not high enough to prevent existing ad hoc routing protocols f...

We consider a Lévy process { St } which is reflected at 0 and K > 0. The reflected process { V K t } is given as a solution to a Skorokhod problem, which implies a representation V K t = V0 + St + Lt − Lt , where { Lt } and { Lt } are the local times at 0 at K, respectively. The regenerative structure of { V K t } yields a stationary distribution denoted πK and the loss rate is defined as the m...

purpose: to report the rate of vitreous loss during phacoemulsification and its contributing risk factors in patients operated on at labbafinejad medical center.  methods: this prospective comparative descriptive study included patients with cataract undergoing phacoemulsification by ophthalmology residents or cornea fellows from november 2006 to november 2007. all patients underwent a complete...

A possible link between melanization and desiccation resistance can be inferred if within population differences in melanization find significant correlations with desiccation resistance and its mechanistic basis i.e. rate of water loss/hr. Accordingly, darker, intermediate and lighter phenotypes of body melanization were analyzed in wild and laboratory reared Drosophila melanogaster L. (Dipter...

The crack developing depth is a key problem to slope stability of the expansive soil and its project governance and the crack appears under the roles of dry-wet cycle and gradually develops. It is believed from the analysis that, because of its own cohesion, the expansive soil will have a certain amount of deformation under pulling stress but without cracks. The soil body will crack only when t...