postharvest losses are a limiting factor on storage life of many vegetables and fruits including citrus. therefore a study was conducted to evaluate the effects of thermal treatments and herbal thyme oil spray on sanguinello blood oranges in golestan province in the northern part of iran. the tests have been performed one day after harvesting, under four different treatments: hot water at 55˚c ...

in order to study the effect of density and time of urea foliar application on oil yield and essences percentage of black cumin (nigella sativa l.) a field experiment was conducted at research station of faculty of agriculture, azad university of birjand in 1387 growing season. three urea foliar application times [1-control 2-at 8-10 leaves stage 3-at 10% flowering 4-100% flowering ] and three ...

It is commonplace to formalize propositions involving essential properties of objects in a language containing modal operators and quantifiers. Assuming David Lewis’s counterpart theory as semantic framework for quantified logic, I will show that certain statements discussed the metaphysics modality de re, such sufficiency condition properties, cannot be faithfully formalized. A natural modific...

This book is about engineering, and yet it is for everybody. It is for citizens of technological democracies who have had little or no formal instruction in engineering, but who sense that there exists something in or about engineering that they can use over time to participate more effectively in public decision making venues. It is also for engineers inasmuch as they have not proven to be bet...