Chinese populations differ from Caucasoids by having a high prevalence of shovel trait and a low prevalence of Carabelli's trait. This study was conducted to investigate the association between the shovel and the Carabelli's traits in a Chinese population. The research design investigated a Chinese population that resides in southern Taiwan. The ancestors of this Chinese population migrated to ...

An analytical algorithm for the estimation of the resistance forces exerted on the dipper of a cable shovel and the specific energy consumed in the cutting-loading process is presented. Forces due to payload and to cutting of geomaterials under given initial conditions, cutting trajectory of the bucket, bucket’s design, and geomaterial properties are analytically computed. The excavation proces...

In Europe and North America, approximately 150 fatalities occur as a result of avalanches every year. However, it is unclear whether certain shovel shapes are more effective than others in snow removal during avalanche victim recovery. The objective was to determine the performance parameters with a developed standardized test using different shovel shapes and to determine sex-specific differen...

in this study, the performance of different cultivation methods on sugar beet fields was evaluated. eight treatments were considered: a) use of a rolling cultivator twice during the growing season; b) use of a rolling cultivator three times during the growing season; c) use of a crescent cultivator twice during the growing season; d) use of a crescent cultivator three times during the growing s...

in order to study the effects of mechanical and chemical methods of weed control and their interaction on cotton (cv. varamin) an experiment was conducted in agricultural research field, the university of birjand during 2008 growing season using a randomize complete block design with 12 treatments and 4 replications. treatments were: trefelan (trifluralin 48% ec) 960cc ai ha-1 (pre-plant), sona...

enable us to undertake the building of roads in the more hilly sections of the county. One shovel and the necessary trucks and graders will be used on construction, while the other shovel and the remainder of the trucks will be free for loading and hauling the much-needed material required for maintain­ ing the remainder of our roads. Thus we expect in the coming year to give better service to ...

in order to investigate efficacy of the integrated weed management in cotton fields, three experiments were carried out in three cotton growing areas of iran, including varamin, khorasan, fars in 2006. these experiments were conducted in randomized complete block design with 13 treatments and 4 replications. one of the pre plant soil mixtured herbicides (trifluralin 48% ec and ethalfluralin 33....