background: peak expiratory flow rate (pefr) is recommended as a tool for control of asthma. the purpose of this study was to determine the normal value of pefr in the healthy high school children in babol, iran. methods: this study was conducted on 470 healthy high school children (285 girls, 185 boys with the age between 14-18 years). for the determination of pefr we used mini wright peak flo...

to investigate the root anatomy and hydraulic conductivity of wheat cultivars, including shiraz, bahar, pishtaz, sistan, and yavaros, a series of controlled environment (growth chamber) experiments were hydroponically conducted at university college of dublin (ucd), ireland in 2010. bahar, pishtaz and sistan cultivars were employed as tolerant to drought and shiraz and yavaros as sensitive. twe...

Beef cattle feedlots contain unconsolidated material that accumulates on the feedlot surface during a feeding cycle. This study was conducted to measure the effects of varying diameters of unconsolidated surface material and varying flow rates on nutrient concentrations in runoff. Unconsolidated surface material with an average diameter of 4.76, 9.53, 19.1, or 47.5 mm and a composite sample wit...

evaluating drainage systems, exploring their strengths and weaknesses, provides a comprehensive perspective to designers and organizers for optimum design and implementation of guidelines for the future. this study was conducted at an experimental site consisting of three plots on a subsurface drainage network under operation in behshahr, a coastal region in northern iran. to evaluate system pe...

rockfill dams are accounted as useful measures in watershed management projects. how-ever, the sediment transport through the rockfill materials, could impact their lifetime duration. previously, researches have been conducted to describe the various hydraulically issues of the flow passing through these structures however; there is no general relationship to estimate the sediment transport rat...

several empirical methods for flood flow rate estimation have been presented. in this study,eight new empirical runoff estimation method including dredge & burge, bourges, inglis, faning, hyderabad, burkli ziegler, cramar and possenti were calculated in bakhtegan watershed which is located in fars province. after studying empirical methods for annual flood flow rate estimation and comparing...

Supervisors in a less-than-truckload freight terminal establish material flows inside the terminal by assigning incoming trailers to open doors. A common scheduling strategy is to look ahead into the queue of incoming trailers and assign them to doors to minimize worker travel. We develop a model of the resulting material flows and use it to construct layouts that exploit this type of schedulin...

Anaerobic digestion (AD) of biowastes is one of the most common ways to produce methane-rich biogas, which has considerable potential to replace the fossil fuel used in multiple applications, such as vehicular transportation, internal combustion engines, cogeneration of heat and power systems and many other systems. Many companies are involved in the design and construction of anaerobic digesti...

Lean Manufacturing concept is well described in the literature in the context of low-mix high-volume production. There are numerous case studies proving outstanding benefits of implementation Lean principles. Nowadays enterprises have to face the problem of high variety of products and dynamically changing demand. Lean tools and methods known from repetitive production do not always fit to high...