The results of these studies showed that mechanical loader and combine harvester performance varied considerably depending on the type of machine, cane yield, and crop and field conditions. Instantaneous loading rates and mechanical harvesting pour rates varied between 60 and 100 tons per hour. Infield cane losses were significantly lower where the cane was manually cut and mechanically loaded ...

In this talk we discuss the predator-prey models with harvesting of the prey. We briefly introduce the basic Lotka-Volterra predator-prey model and different harvesting strategies. Then we focus on two types of harvesting functions, and combine them with two types of predator-prey models, one with exponential growth of the prey and the other one with logistic growth of the prey. For each type o...

In this paper, we propose a hybrid polling Medium Access Control (MAC) protocol with Human Energy Harvesting capabilities, called HEH-BMAC, designed for Wireless Body Area Networks (WBANs). The proposed protocol uses a dynamic schedule algorithm to combine User Identification polling (ID) and Probabilistic Contention (PC) random access, adapting the network operation to the random, time-varying...

The insight and experience gained by a researcher are often lost because the current productive and analytics software are inherently data-centric, disconnected, and scattered. The connected nature of insight and experience can be captured if the applications themselves are connected. How connected applications concept is implemented in COnstruct cheMical and BIological NEtwork (COMBINE), a nov...

A user friendly, computer based program has been developed to estimate the performance and cost of sugarcane combine harvesters and associated infield transport vehicles. The model was originally developed to assess the effect of various field parameters, infield cultural practices and also the number and capacity of infield transport vehicles on harvester output. A costing program was subseque...

Wheat is one of the most important food staff in consumption pattern of each country. More than 50 percent of energy is provided by bread in the developing countries. The aim of this study was measuring wheat losses during pre-harvest and harvest stages in Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari province of Iran in year 2013. Wheat losses at harvest stages were measured to wheat varieties in 2 levels of Omid...

This paper discusses the dimensioning of buffers and the bandwidth allocation for data traffic in the ATM network. Data traffic is notoriously complex and bursty, making such dimensioning a difficult task. However, the COMBINE project, when dimensioning their interworking units (IWUs), adopted a Poissonian packet arrival model, based upon the argument that burstiness at timescales higher than t...

Modify the scatterer configuration of a planar, finitehorizon Lorentz process in a bounded domain. Sinai asked in 1981 whether for the diffusively scaled variant of the modified process convergence to Brownian motion still holds. The main result of the work answers Sinai’s question in the affirmative. Other types of local perturbations are also investigated: finite horizon periodic Lorentz proc...

grain loss monitors are installed on combine harvester and make it possible to measure grain loss on different parts of the combine. the instrument permits the operator to adjust a proper ground speed to keep grain loss within an acceptable range. in this study a loss monitoring system was implemented to measure grain losses continuously on straw walker and sieves. two grain loss monitors (kee ...