In order to investigate the shucking technology and design the efficient Sheller, it’s highly significant to study on the mechanical characteristics of walnut. The Pro/E software and finite element method was adopted to build the geometry and finite element model of walnut. Afterwards, the walnut stress distribution with different loads was analyzed to seek the optimum force-applying forms whic...

Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.) is one of the most economically important nut crops. In Kazakhstan, wild-growing population Juglans registered in south country and protected on territory Sairam-Ugam State National Natural Park. As a result expeditions 2018-2019 136 accessions were described according to descriptors International Plant Genetic Resources Institute, fruits 73 walnuts collected, ...

This paper provides a brief overview of ongoing work towards the realisation of a multi-camera video-based person tracking system. The developing system is orientated towards a distributed architecture for sharing visual information between multiple cameras. A hierarchical method for modelling people in scenes using colour features is proposed, however, future development will also look at incl...

Early-life nutrition has been suggested to influence the progression of chronic disease. In this issue of Clinical Science, Ozanne and colleagues argue that the pre- and post-natal diet can have a significant impact on the risk of becoming overweight in later life. Although an intriguing finding that warrants further investigation, it is most likely that the key to stemming the obesity pandemic...

This paper presents a new image fusion algorithm by combining contourlet transform with Kernel Principle Component Analysis to enhance perception in case of night vision applications. Contourlet Transform improves visual perception preserving the edge and texture information as compared to wavelet transform, while Kernel Principle Component Analysis helps to develop effective fusion decision ru...