background: the performance and parasitology of semi-intensively managed west african dwarf (wad) lambs were evaluated following exposure to gastrointestinal helminth infected paddock and varied protein-energy feeds. methods: twenty four lambs obtained from the department of animal breeding and genetics and brought to directorate of university farm (dufarm) of federal university of agriculture ...

drying of agricultural products is a sophisticated process with high energy consumption. energy needed for sustainable development, is one of the biggest challenges facing humanity. the performance of a heat recovery assisted solar dryer was evaluated in this study. drying time, collector efficiency, energy consumption, solar fraction and energy recovery fraction were investigated at different ...

optimal balancing is a new approach based on optimal control a which modes, controls and the amount of equilibrium scale are calculated simultaneously. this approach has a significant effect on increasing performance of industrial robots which causes maximum decreasing of energy consumption. despite many applications of robotics such as welding and gluing, the path is predefined , but other unk...

based on the problems caused by today conventional vehicles, much attention has been put on the fuel cell vehicles researches. however, using a fuel cell system is not adequate alone in transportation applications, because the load power profile includes transient that is not compatible with the fuel cell dynamic. to resolve this problem, hybridization of the fuel cell and energy storage device...

this study aimed to analyze and modeling of energy and performance of dryland chickpea adaptive neuro-fuzzy inference system utilizes (anfis) in dryland chickpea production is done in the city of bukan. data were collected from 70 producers of chickpeas using face to face interviews with farmers and completing the questionnaire specialized. size of land was between 2 and 10 hectares. input fact...