heavy metals such as cadmium mainly enter in the environment and ecosystem as a result of human activities. this study was conducted in order to evaluate the ability of bacterial inoculants to enhance efficiency of phytoextraction in a calcareous soil. three plants (amaranthus retroflexus, helianthus annus and medicago sativa), along with three levels of inoculants and four levels of cd were ev...

the objective of this study was to evaluate different pistachio hullers and determine the proper harvest time of pistachio nuts for hulling. three pistachio hulling machines (helical drum, helical- blade drum, rubber drum) at three harvest times and 15 days interval were evaluated. the hulling efficiency, percentage of damaged nuts, faulty hulled nuts and unhulled nuts were measured at each tim...

In this paper, the issue of balance pattern of the interaction columns of a symmetrical design is considered according to orthogonal components system. The minimum interaction unbalance criterion is proposed for ranking and comparing s-level factorial designs, where s is any a prime or a prime power. It is further showed that the interaction unbalance pattern is just the generalized wordlength ...

Drought is the most common environmental stress in vineyard occurs in soils with low water content, even in irrigation condition. To evaluate foliar spraying of ascorbic acid under drought stress, a research during 2012 to 2013 years in the natural environment, and one year after the establishment of the cuttings in clay loam soil was conducted. Cultivars with two-level white seedless and khosh...

A criterion of design efficiency, under model uncertainty, is studied with reference to possibly nonregular fractions of general factorials. The criterion is expressed in terms of the departure of the design from being an orthogonal array of strengths three or four. A Kronecker calculus for factorial arrangements facilitates the derivation. The results are followed up with a numerical study and...

Box and Hunter (1961) made an important observation that any fractional factorial design of resolutionR has the property that when projected onto anyR 1 factors it becomes a full factorial design. This has a signi cant implication for statistical analysis. We observe that the Plackett-Burman and related designs have a hidden projection property with an analogous implication for the analysis. Be...