cotton (gossypium hirsutum l.) as a unique crop in natural fiber production has an important role in texture industry. it has also a large share in oil production for human nutrition and as a protein concentrate for animal feeding. therefore, cotton role in job opportunities in agriculture, industry and business divisions are undeniable. in order to determine the share of each direct and indire...

Over the past five to seven years, North American pulp and paper companies have slashed capital spending by more than 50%. During this period, very few new paper machines have started up in North America and paper machine rebuild projects have slowed to a drizzle at best. Capacity in almost every grade sector has shrunk dramatically and currently is in a prolonged holding pattern. However, as t...

One of the designs of cellular manufacturing systems (CMS) requires that a machine population be partitioned into machine cells. Numerous methods are available for clustering machines into machine cells. One method involves using a similarity coefficient. Similarity coefficients between machines are not absolute, and they still need more attention from researchers. Although there are a number o...

Tobacco control policies have proliferated in many countries in recent years, in particular youth access laws and public smoking bans. The eff ectiveness of youth access laws is still disputed, however, as are the costs of public smoking bans to the hospitality industry. Using a unique data set on cigarette sales at more than 100k vending machines that provides fi rst objective evidence on the ...

Though renal transplant is preferred mode of renal replacement therapy (RRT), peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an important modality of treatment for children with end stage renal disease (ESRD) but it is underutilized in Pakistan despite several advantages over haemodialysis (HD). The burden of paediatric chronic kidney disease (CKD) and ESRD is under reported, since majority of children (24-63%) p...

The goals of this project are to develop rehabilitation strategies and enhance seismic design guidelines for key equipments in power substations, which are one of the most critical facilities in a power system. Furthermore, it will provide the knowledge base to be integrated into the overall loss estimation model for the entire power network. To achieve these goals, key substation equipments ar...

introduction the main goal of this study was to perform quality control test on all radiography units operating in golestan province of iran. materials and methods forty-four x-ray units were examined based on general accepted programs for quality control. eight parameters including kvp accuracy, kvp reproducibility, ma-time reciprocity, exposure linearity, exposure reproducibility, timer accur...

In this chapter, rotation angle estimation algorithms for textures and their real time implementations on a custom smart camera called FU-SmartCam is introduced (Ulas et al., 2007) and improved. In the textile industry, weft-straightening is a fundamental problem which is closely related to the rotation angle estimation. Earlier weft-straightening machines used simple sensors and hardware; howe...