the most important quality indicator of fruits is the flesh firmness which is well correlated to their young’s modulus. in this research variation of vibration characteristics (shape modes, natural frequency) of apple due to change of material characteristics (density, young's models, poisson ratio) and apple volume was investigated using finite element simulation. an image processing technique...

N the course of some research on peppers, Capsicum annum (SMITH and I HELSER 1951 ) , conducted at the Citrus Experiment Station, Riverside, California, several striking, heritable fruit characters were noted. Upon further analysis, a chromosome linkage was found to exist between two immature-fruit color genes and a gene determining pepper fruit shape. In addition the fruit shape difference bet...

Identification and discrimination of most cranberry varieties is problematic. There are few qualitative morphological traits with which to discriminate varieties of cranberry. Apple varieties, on the other hand, are easily discriminated, i.e. the fruit of Golden Delicious versus Red Delicious apples. Vegetative morphology, e.g. leaf shape, size, etc., of most cranberry varieties is very similar...

This paper provides a review of shape analysis methods. Shape analysis methods play an important role in systems for object recognition, matching, registration, and analysis. Research in shape analysis has been motivated, in part, by studies of human visual form perception systems. Several theories of visual form perception are brie y mentioned. Shape analysis methods are classi ed into several...

kidney stone disease has become more common in children, but it remains non diagnosed in a significant proportion of patients, due to a lack of notable signs and symptoms. all children with colicky abdominal pain or microscopic hematuria should be examined thoroughly for urolithiasis. patients’ histories in terms of family, medical, and drug and a thorough physical examination are required to b...

In this work, 19 newly introduced and some traditional apricot cultivars were evaluated by 20 phenological agronomical traits fruit quality attributes. The results showed a wide variation in data, tree vigour (TCSA), productivity [yield per tree, cumulative yield (CY) efficiency (YE)], attributes such as stone weight, flesh/stone ratio, dimensions, size, shape index, soluble solids content (SSC...

Fruit shape is an important external characteristic that consumers use to select preferred fruit cultivars. In peach, the flat fruit cultivars have become more and more popular worldwide. Genetic markers closely linking to the flat fruit trait have been identified and are useful for marker-assisted breeding. However, the cellular and genetic mechanisms underpinning flat fruit formation are stil...

oligonychus afrasiaticus mcg is a key pest on kabkab and khasi date cultivars in behbehan. this research was conducted based on randomized complete block designs with 9 cultivars and 3 replications in behbehan agricultural research station during 2008 and 2009. the main idea of the investigation was the response assessment of these cultivars to the spider mite. the cultivars included kabkab, kh...

A method of shape generation using shape grammars which take shape as primitive and have shape-specific rules is presented. A formalism for the complete, generative specification of a class of non-representational, geometric paintings or sculptures is defined which has shape grammars as its structural component. Paintings are material representations of two-dimensional shapes gen~rated by shape...