Abstract Almond shell hardness is an economically important quality trait that protects the integrity of kernel. It directly related with shelling or crack-out percent. In U.S. and Australian markets, soft to semi-hard shells varieties have been used in industry, while European market, hard are dominantly sold distributed. The origin a from wild almond species. Soft USA Australia selected for h...

The paper presents a report on the physico-thermal properties and elemental composition of pulverized palm kernel shell to enhance its use in engineering applications. Clean palm kernel shell were dried, milled and screened to obtain particles 0.23 mm mean diameter. Experiments were conducted to evaluate the physical and thermal properties of the pulverized palm kernel shell and its differentia...

in this research, we studied physical, chemical and biochemical characteristics of pistachio entitled pistacia vera cv. daneshmandi and was compared to three pistachio including of badami sefid, kalle ghoochi and akbari. the examined characteristics were fresh and dry weight of seed, green shell and also kernel, weight of hard shell, seedless and early opening nut, comparing the seed and kernel...

Pistachio green kernel, is obtained by removing the red testa of around the whole kernel. In this study, the suitable peeling conditions for removing the testa of the kernel were determined using hot water in five termperature levels of 75, 80, 85, 90, and 95°C and diffetent hot water immersion times of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 minutes in riped and unripe samples. Quality factors including the number...

Computer vision researchers have developed various learning methods based on the bag of words model for image related tasks, including image categorization, image retrieval and texture classification. In this model, images are represented as histograms of visual words (or textons) from a vocabulary that is obtained by clustering local image descriptors. Next, a classifier is trained on the data...

The performance of Support Vector Machines (SVMs) is highly dependent on the choice of a kernel function suited to the problem at hand. In particular, the kernel implicitly performs a feature selection which is the most important stage in any texture classification algorithm. In this work a new Gabor filter based kernel for texture classification with SVMs is proposed. The proposed kernel funct...

We present texture cache approximation as a method for using existing hardware on GPUs to eliminate costly global memory accesses. We develop a technique for using a GPU’s texture fetch units to generate approximate values, and argue that this technique is applicable to a wide variety of GPU kernels. Applying texture cache approximation to an image blur kernel on an NVIDIA 780GTX, we obtain a 1...

this research was conducted to study some vegetative and reproductive traits as well as qualitative andquantitative characteristics and their correlation in 80 almond genotypes. qualitative traits were studiedaccording to gulcan descriptor. quantitative traits were analyzed as completely randomized design(crd), with 12 replications. the results showed that genotypes had significant difference i...