Vol. 15 No. 1 (2013): CIGR Journal

Published: 2013-04-02

I-Land and Water Engineering

Subsurface drainage effects on soil penetration resistance and water table depth on a clay soil in the Red River of the North Valley, USA

Hans J. Kandel, Jack A. Brodshaug, Dean D. Steele, Joel K. Ransom, Tom M. DeSutter, Gary R. Sands

1-10
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Prioritization of watersheds using multi-criteria evaluation through fuzzy analytical hierarchy process

Prajakta Aher, J. Adinarayana, S. D. Gorantiwar

11-18
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Assessment of the CERES-Rice model for rice production in Ibadan, Nigeria

Christopher Oluwakunmi Akinbile

19-26
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III-Equipment Engineering for Plant Production

Effects of sprayer operating parameters on airborne drift from citrus air-carrier sprayers

Masoud Salyani, David R. Miller, Muhammad Farooq, Roy Duncan Sweeb

27-36
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Evaluation of soil-tire interaction on a soil bin

Payam Farhadi, A. Mohsenimanesh, R. Alimardani

37-42
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Rapidly drying sorghum biomass for potential biofuel production

A.C. Rocateli, R.L. Raper, B. Olander, M. Pruitt, E.B. Schwab

43-49
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IV-Energy in Agriculture

Biogas as an alternative to fuelwood for a household in Uleppi sub-county in Uganda

Emmanuel Menya, Y. Alokore, B. O. Ebangu

50-58
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Energy inputs – yield relationship and sensitivity analysis for tomato greenhouse production in Iran

Morteza Taki, Reza Abdi, Mohammad Akbarpour, Hassan Ghasemi Mobtaker

59-67
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Modeling of wheat yield and sensitivity analysis based on energy inputs for three years in Abyek town, Ghazvin, Iran

Leila Naderloo, Reza Alimardani, Mahmoud Omid, Fereydoon Sarmadian, Payam Javadikia, Mahamad Yaser Torabi

68-77
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V-Management, Ergonomics and Systems Engineering

Effect of thresher drive linkage design on human physiological workload of a pedal operated thresher

Kamal Nayan Agrawal, E. V. Thomas, K. K. Satapathy

78-86
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Fish farm management and microcontroller based aeration control system

Moataz K. El-Nemr, Mohamed K. El Nemr

87-99
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VI-Postharvest Technology and Process Engineering

Physical and sensory characteristics of Ready-To-Eat food prepared from finger millet based composite mixer by extrusion

Abhiman Arjun Sawant, Nayansingh Jatansingh Thakor, Shrikant Baslingapa Swami, Anuja Dinkar Divate, Balasaheb S. K. K. Vidyapeet

100-105
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Physical properties of bottle gourd seeds

Rama Chandra Pradhan, Prashant P. Said, Subedar Singh

106-113
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Compaction of grass silage taking vibrating stresses into account

Thomas Hoffmann, Hartmut Schemel, Christian Fürll

114-123
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Hydration Kinetics of Teff Grain

J.A. Sadik, Biresaw Demelash, Mengistu Gizaw

124-130
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Gamma irradiation effects on physical properties of squash seeds

Hamed Ebrahimzadeh, Amir Hossein Mirzabe, Mahmoud Lotfi, Shiva Azizinia

131-138
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Experimental determination and mathematical fitting of sorption isotherms for Lemon Balm (Melissa officinalis L.)

Sandra Patricia Cuervo Andrade, Oliver Hensel

139-145
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Mathematical modeling of thin layer solar drying of tomato slices

Hadi Bagheri, Akbar Arabhosseini, Mohammad Hossien Kianmehr, Gholam Reza Chegini

146-153
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Mathematical modeling of drying characteristics of chilli in hot air oven and fluidized bed dryers

Suramya D. F. Mihindukulasuriya, Hemantha P. W. Jayasuriya

154-166
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Preparation of guava jam blended with sapota

Abhiman Arjun Sawant, Meghatai Madhukar Patil, Sandip B. kalse

167-172
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Defects and calyx detection using rule-based and neural network approaches for sorting of tomatoes by Machine Vision

Mohammed Rokunuzzaman, Hemantha P. W. Jayasuriya

173-180
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Performance evaluation of a village-level solar dryer for tomato under Savanna Climate: Yola, Northeastern Nigeria

Bashir Aliyu, Hassan Umar Kabri, P.D. Pembi

181-186
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Patchouli in fragrances-incense stick production from patchouli spent charge powder

H. G. Ramya, V. Palanimuthu, R. Dayananda Kumar

187-193
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Effect of soaking and malting on finger millet (EleusineCoracana) grain

Shrikant Baslingappa Swami, Nayansingh J. Thakor, Hemant S. Gurav

194-200
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Determination of some physical properties of virgin olive fruits

Amir Hossein Mirzabe, Javad Khazaei, Gholam Reza Chegini, Mohammad Hossein Amir Pour Rostami Nejad

201-210
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VII-Information Systems

Detection of unhealthy region of plant leaves and classification of plant leaf diseases using texture features

S. Arivazhagan, R. Newlin Shebiah, S. Ananthi, S. Vishnu Varthini

211-217
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