performance evaluation of a commercial citrus evaporator

... the kappa (k) ratio To estimate the effect of heat inactivation on the performance of the ELISA we evaluated the repeatability of the test before and after heat inactivation of the Page of (page ... Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2007, 49:7 http://www.actavetscand.com/content/49/1/7 Background Methods Bovine viral diarrhoea virus (BVDV) is a widely spread cattle pathogen with a significant ... was a perfect agreement of the interpretations of the test results obtained before and after heat inactivation, and the CCC was calculated to 0.99 The BA plot (not shown) indicated that 95% of...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 18:21

... and analyzed a heat-pump dryer taking into account several important variables, such as ambient condition, ratio of recirculated air, the evaporator air by-pass ratio , the total mass flow rate ... of evaporatorcollector and air collector, tests were conducted according to the ASHRE standard For the evaluation of performance of the system, solar fraction (SF) and coefficient of performance ... demonstrated the performance of the system as a function of collector area Thermal storage volume was evaluated to determine the fraction of the space heating and domestic hot water load that was...

Ngày tải lên: 28/11/2015, 13:43

... PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF A TTL-BASED DYNAMIC MARKING SCHEME IN IP TRACEBACK Shanmuga Sundaram Devasundaram Thesis Approved: Accepted: Advisor Dr Xuan-Hien Dang Dean of the College Dr Ronald ... solution and allows accurate analysis of attack traffic even after the attack is over But the main drawbacks of the technique are the amount of processing power involved and the amount of data needed ... composed of all the attack paths Attack packets used in the DoS attacks are called attack packets We call a router false positive if it is in the reconstructed attack graph but not in the real attack...

Ngày tải lên: 05/07/2016, 15:00

... content, particle size and inlet air temperature and the design parameters were throat angle and heat loss The aim of this study is to analyze the performance of a 150 kVA Johansson biomass gasifier ... low ash turn over and low charcoal yield of the Johansson biomass gasifier system Table presents a summary of some performance parameters obtained and their comparison with literature data Table ... 3.1 Gas analysis, ultimate and proximate analysis The mass of the feedstock was determined using a measuring balance/scale before feeding into the gasifier hopper The ultimate and proximate analyses...

Ngày tải lên: 02/08/2016, 10:02

... Electroanal Chem 1998;251(2):275295 [15] Sampath Yerramalla, Asad Davari, Ali Feliachi and Tamal Biswas, Modeling and simulation of the dynamic behavior of a polymer electrolyte membrane fuel ... (kg/mol) Pa , Pc total pressure of anode and cathode, respectively (atm) * * PH , PO2 partial pressure of hydrogen and oxygen at the anode catalyst / gas interface and cathode catalyst / gas interface, ... construct a mathematical model for investigating the performance of a PEM fuel cell at different operation variables to optimize its performance by changing some of its parameters Model validation against...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 14:58

... transfer coefficient and F2 is the total heat transfer surface area of the cold-side heat exchanger Here the & &′ imaginary part n2 of n indicates the relaxation of a heat transfer process Defining ... / F1 and FT = F1 + F2 Here, the total heat transfer surface area FT of the two heat exchangers is assumed to be a constant (3) There is a constant rate of heat leakage ( q ) from the heat source ... efficiency of a traveling wave heat engine J Acoust.Soc Am., 1982, 7(3): 1239-1243 [3] Yazaki T, Iwata A, mackawa T and Tominaga A Traveling wave thermoacoustic engine in a looped tube Phys Rev Lett.,...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 16:10

... double-glazed solar cooker, Kumar [7] One of the earliest mathematical models to test the thermal performance of a Solar Cooker was presented by Garg et al [8] and Vaishya et al [9] Also, Jubran and Alsaad ... solar cooker, and the parameters that characterize the performance of the solar cooker Evaluation of solar cooker thermal performance using different insulating materials was conducted by Mishra ... and management vol 32 (6): pp 537-541 R S Mishra, S P Prakash, 1984, Evaluation of solar cooker thermal performance using different insulating materials, International Journal of Energy Research...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 17:03

... objective of the FARM Program is to enhance the capabilities of GOs and NGOs, to build local capacity of resource poor farmers for sustainable use and management of agricultural and natural resources ... research approaches to support the small-scale household farming in utilizing and managing of agricultural and natural resources reasonably Central elements in this participatory research are team-work ... team-work and also multiple perspectives It gives the appreciative character of social organization of innovation In fact that SWG acts to bring a collaborative and linking among important actors...

Ngày tải lên: 16/01/2014, 21:20

... for a quarter car model are assessed in [5] II MATHEMATICAL MODELLING FOR A QUARTER CAR MODEL Basic Idea The quarter-car implies a model of a quarter of a four wheeled vehicle A quarter car models ... consists of a passive spring and a linear damper and a damper The tire is modeled as a linear spring with stiffness The passive elements will guarantee a minimal level of performance and safety, ... effects of seat suspension on vehicle performance of a quarter car model for a given road input are explored using different approaches The approach namely, Analysis by equation of motion using mathematical...

Ngày tải lên: 16/02/2014, 09:13

... Deepak & Patidar Deepak (2009) studied the empirically testing on the basis of fund manager performance and analyzing data at the fund-manager and fund-investor levels The study revealed that ... Bhuvaneswari, Analysis of Risk and Return Relationship of Indian Equity (Dividend) Mutual Fund Schemes (2011) Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1862214 [10] Agrawa, D (2009) A Comparative ... Madava, Ravindran, Performance Evaluation of Indian Mutual Funds Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=433100 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.433100 [8] Rao, D N., Investment Styles and...

Ngày tải lên: 19/02/2014, 15:20

... was not trained on enough data Belz and Reiter (2006) carry out a comparison of automatic evaluation metrics against human domain experts and human non-experts in the domain of weather forecast ... based on automatic evaluation metrics published in that paper are confirmed in an evaluation by humans Another goal is to collect data that will allow us and other researchers1 to explore ... breakdown of the items A ranking mechanism based on so-called optimality marks can lead to a certain “asymmetry” between parsing and in each part of the experiment.5 generation in the sense that not all...

Ngày tải lên: 22/02/2014, 02:20

... nonterminal labels of the treebank g r a m m a r For example, our g r a m m a r maintains a fairly large number of semantic classes of singular nouns, and it is natural to stipulate that each of t ... (viz a year) or else a number Note t h a t all of these classifications were m a d e on the basis of the examination of concordances over a several-hundredthousand-word sample of manuals data Possible ... be ascertained The value of a large bracketed training corpus is that it allows the grammarian to obtain quickly a very large set of sentences that 2Actually there are 18 x = 54 labels, as each...

Ngày tải lên: 08/03/2014, 07:20

... The questionnaire was translated to Kiswahili as a language familiar to most Tanzanians Data was gathered by an anonymous questionnaire The knowledge test consisted of 10 items and asked students ... Process evaluation of a school-based adolescent sexual heath intervention in rural Tanzania: MEMA kwa Vijana programme Health Educ Res 2006, 22:500-512 18 Todd J, Changalucha J, Ross D, Mosha F, Obasi ... data and FM and MI analyzed data FM and SH and MI participated in reviewing and drafting the manuscript in all stages All authors read and approved the final manuscript Competing interests The authors...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 12:20

... 2006 Comparing automatic and human evaluation of NLG systems In Proceedings of EACL 2006, pages 313–320, Trento, Italy Amanda Stent, Matthew Marge, and Mohit Singhai 2005 Evaluating evaluation methods ... 61–63, NJ, USA Karolina Owczarzak, Josef van Genabith, and Andy Way 2008 Evaluating machine translation with LFG dependencies Machine Translation, 21:95– 119 Karolina Owczarzak 2009 DEPEVAL(summ): ... generation in the presense of variation In Proceedings of CICLING, pages 341–351 Aoife Cahill and Martin Forst 2009 Human Evaluation of a German Surface Realisation Ranker In Proceedings of EACL...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 17:20

... Area’ For each activity, a single graphic was selected and placed at the top left corner of each page of that activity as a visual cue for students engaged in a particular learning activity The ... experienced while navigating through the site A suggested enhancement to the navigational capability of the site was a text-based replication of site navigation bar at the top of each page to make scrolling ... activities and tasks in more detail resulted in a clarification of the structure of each learning activity and thus, a proliferation of pages for each activity Now, each learning activity is associated...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 21:20

... Table I Baseline data for the 58 smear-negative patients (continued) Characteristic Adenopathy Infiltrate and adenopathy Pleural effusion/thickening and infiltrates Pleural effusion and adenopathy ... 55probable TB cases (3 probable TB cases (3 ‡  had military patterns on had miliary patterns on CXR, and had high ADA CXR, and had high ADA levels in pleural effusion, all levels in pleural effusion, ... classified as having ‘probable’ TB, defined as clinical improvement after weeks of TB treatment and a miliary pattern on chest radiograph or pleural effusion with an ADA level > 30 U/l Four of...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 03:20

... scale scores were analyzed using Pearson or Spearman correlations or analysis of variance (ANOVA), as appropriate Backwards stepwise regression was used to quantify the extent of unique relationships ... 3-factor solutions were appropriate Factor analysis was conducted using a Promax rotated factor solution Results Mean caregiver age was 61.5 years and mean patient age was 80.2 years (See Tables ... Center (Santa Monica), and SCAN HealthPlan (Long Beach) References Additional material Additional file CGQOL 80-item Measure Final version of the 80-item Caregiver-Targeted Measure of Quality of Life...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 18:20

... Performance evaluation of space–time–frequency spreading for MIMO OFDM–CDMA systems Haysam Dahman∗ and Yousef Shayan Department of Electrical Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, ... Canada *Corresponding authors: h dahman, yshayan@ece.concordia.ca Email address: YS: yshayan@ece.concordia.ca Abstract In this article, we propose a multiple-input-multiple-output, orthogonal ... receiver This study and simulation results show that MIMO OFDM-CDMA is capable of achieving diversity gains significantly larger than that of the conventional 2-D CDMA OFDM and MIMO MC CDMA schemes Keywords:...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 22:20

... property Data Analysis Data were processed and analyzed after testing each subject The same time interval of BML and IDEEA data was analyzed for the three specific physical activities (gait, stepping, ... experiments, and assisted in analyzing the data and revising the manuscript All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements The authors thank Patrick Duplessis for his assistance ... orthogonal directions One sensor was placed in the midline approximately cm distal to the sternal notch One sensor was placed on the plantar aspect of each foot, proximal to the metatarsal heads...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 10:20

... CA1 CA MA1, SA MA, SA1 MA, SA MA, SA MA, SA Event +CA2 +SA +MA2 + SA2 +CA -SA -MA Result CA1 stop CA2 start CA → MA SA start MA1 stop MA2 start SA1 stop SA2 start MA stop SA stop CA start SA ... data from each case is transferred to a PC and evaluated statistically and graphically: the number of individual occurrences of each task, mean duration of each occurrence of each task, the total ... "Stop" has to be hit At this moment all events of the observation are automatically saved in a tab-delimited file Application of the job task analysis tool The time recording software translates...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 00:20