Drying is one of the major unit operation in food industry and it kinetics data required for optimization. The aim this study was to evaluate effect air temperature (50, 60, 70°C), velocity (0.5, 1, 1.5 m/s), slice thickness (3, 6, 9 mm) on moisture ratio yam during drying. Ten (10) different empirical models were used fitting experimental data, prediction performance evaluated with sum square ...

A theorem is presented relating the squared multiple correlation of each measure in a battery with the other measures to the unique generalized inverse of the correlation matrix. This theorem is independent of the rank of the correlation matrix and may be utilized for singular correlation matrices. A coefficient is presented which indicates whether the squared multiple correlation is unity or n...

Measurement of GFR is considered the standard for estimating renal function. However, standardized accurate GFR methodology is expensive and cumbersome; therefore, estimates of GFR based on serum creatinine concentration have been employed. The purpose of the study presented here was to assess the accuracy and precision of using serum creatinine measurements to estimate GFR in the screen cohort...

abstract long-term historical weather data are needed to conduct crop simulation analysis. simulated climatic data may be used when long series of historic data are not available or convenient or when future data are needed. the aim of this study was to generate daily weather values for maximum and minimum air temperatures. a number of weather generators are compared here. data from ten station...

This paper investigates whether the degree of predictability can be explained by existing asset pricing models, and provides two theoretical upper bounds on the R-square of the regression of stock returns on predictors for given classes of models of interest. Empirically, we find that the predictive R-square is significantly larger than the upper bounds permitted by well known asset pricing mod...

abstract process of evapotranspiration (eto) is a major component of the hydrologic cycle that its accurate estimation plays an important role to achieve sustainable development in water balance, irrigation system design and planning and management of water resources. being a function of different metrological parameters and their interactions, evapotranspiration is a complex, nonlinear phenome...

2 1. If shared variance (r²) is reported, correlation (r) is obtained by calculating the square root of shared variance. 2. If covariance (cov(x, y)) is reported, the correlation (r) is obtained by applying the formula r x y x y = cov(,) σ σ where σ is the standard deviation. 2 Procedure 5 and the second part of procedure 6 are described in Wolf (1986).

Social judgment data was analyzed using fuzzy least squares regression analysis based on the extension principle. The proposed analysis is new fuzzy least squares regression analysis in which input data, output data, and coefficients are represented by L-R fuzzy numbers. To evaluate data fitness, we propose a fuzzy version of a squared multiple correlation (R) and conducted an experiment to det...