In this study the effects of plant growth regulators including; GA3 (0 and 50 mg/l) and ethephon (0 and 500 mg/l) were studied on the quality properties of two grape cultivars (Perlette and Yaghuti). At the harvest time, some physicochemical characteristics such as fruit cluster weight, fruit diameter, length, volume and L/D ratio, flesh firmness, fresh weight, TA, pH, TSS and fruit color were ...

The mass flow of granular particles in an aerial spreader duct was regarded as a sequence of cluster passage events. At low flow densities, the total mass per time unit could be estimated by measuring the diameter (length) of each individual particle passing a sensor and accumulating the associated masses. At higher flow densities, the lengths of clusters would be measured rather than the lengt...

the autotetraploidy was achieved in basil using tip meristem treatment of seedlings with various concentrations of colchicine solution (0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.2, 0.5 and 0.75% (w/v) ph = 6). a significant increase in the essential oil content was observed in tetraploids as they carry the potential of productivity of 69 % more oil over the diploids. a field experiment was conducted to investigate the e...

The study on the tree growth for four species groups of commercial timber in Koh Kong province, Cambodia’s tropical rainforest is described. The simulation for these four groups had been successfully developed in the 5-year interval through year-60. Data were obtained from twenty permanent sample plots in the duration of thirteen years. The aim for this study was to develop stand table simulati...

In this work, by means of molecular dynamics simulations, we consider the mass transport of a water cluster inside a single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) with a diameter of about 1.4 nm. The influence of the non-equilibrium thermal environment on the confined water cluster has been investigated by imposing a longitudinal temperature gradient on the SWNT. It is demonstrated that the water cluste...

Bubble dynamics in water close to the tip of an ultrasonic horn (∼23 kHz, 3 mm diameter) have been studied using electrochemistry, luminescence, acoustics, light scattering, and high-speed imaging. It is found that, under the conditions employed, a large bubble cluster (∼1.5 mm radius) exists at the tip of the horn. This cluster collapses periodically every three to four cycles of the fundament...

The diameter of a cluster is the maximum intracluster distance between pairs of instances within the same cluster, and the split of a cluster is the minimum distance between instances within the cluster and instances outside the cluster. Given a few labeled instances, this paper includes two aspects. First, we present a simple and fast clustering algorithm with the following property: if the ra...

We performed experiments to establish the scaling of convective heat transfer at the wall of circulating fluidized beds. In these units, the suspension condenses into clusters separated from the wall by a gas film of order the mean particle diameter. Because of the relatively high solid volume fraction and heat capacity of these clusters, Lints and Glicksman [AIChE Symp. Ser. 89 (1993), pp. 297...