soil compaction is an important aspect of agriculture and different methods are available to measure this parameter. one method is called the cone index; measuring the force required per unit area for penetration of a standard steel cone into the ground. cone penetrometers are used for cone index measurement. in this study, a tractor mounted, hydraulically-operated penetrometer was designed, bu...

Simultaneous (or concurrent) Engineering, is a concept which should be normal nowadays. Then, without early and simultaneous involvement of all departments, specialists, special suppliers and potential external consultants, you are no longer able to develop these ever more complex agricultural machines. In that case „simultaneous“ means to be faster on the market, because all manufacturers can ...

The dispersion in photonic crystal fibers likewise conventional optical fibers determines performance of optical systems. Fibers having near-zero dispersion and wideband flat characteristics are considered crucial for applications in both the linear and nonlinear regimes. This paper presents an octagonal photonic crystal fiber design for ultra-flattened chromatic dispersion characteristic and e...

We report a new family of hexa-peri-hexabenzocoronene (HBC)-based helical nanographenes incorporating ?-extended carbo[5]helicenes bearing an octagonal carbocycle. This represents kind highly distorted saddle-helix hybrid nanographenes. For the first time, eight-membered ring becomes constituent both carbo[5]helicene and HBC thus, negative curvature is responsible for twisting units. novel chir...

It is shown that a probabilistic Turing acceptor or transducer running within space bound S can be simulated by a time S 2 parallel machine and therefore by a space S 2 deterministic machine. (Previous simulations ran in space $6.) In order to achieve these simulations, known algorithms are extended for the computation of determinants in small arithmetic parallel time to computations having sma...

BACKGROUND Agricultural tractor overturns without rollover protective structures are the leading cause of farm fatalities in the United States. To our knowledge, no studies have incorporated the spatial scan statistic in identifying high-risk areas for tractor overturns. The aim of this study was to determine whether tractor overturns cluster in certain parts of Kentucky and identify factors as...

A flexible birdcage-type resonant RF detector for magnetic resonance imaging is described. The circuit consists of a polygonal ring of magnetically coupled L–C resonators, a periodic structure supporting backward magnetoinductive waves. The elements are mechanically linked to allow relative rotation, and the pivot point is optimised to hold the nearest-neighbour coupling coefficient invariant t...