The objective of this study was to evaluate the phenotypic lactation curve of crossbred dairy cows raised in Phetchaburi and Prachuap Khiri Khan Provinces. Monthly sampling of daily milk yield of 5516 records from 485 first lactating heifers collected by the Biotechnology in Livestock Production Division Department of Livestock Development during the year 1997 to 2003 were used in this study. Monthly sampling of daily milk yield were fitted using Wilmink function (yt=a+bt+cexp-0.05t) to describe the whole and individual curves and estimated lactation parameters (a b and c). All parameters were used to calculate milk yield at day 60 (MY60) 280 (MY280) peak yield (PM) and accumulated 305 days yield (MY305). The results showed that the fixed effects of herd-year-season of calving level of HF blood or genetic provinces and age of calving were significant differences of all traits (P<0.05; a b c MY60 MY280 PM และ MY305). The phenotypic correlations between the considering traits were significant differences (P<0.05). Moreover the study on the nature of lactation curve could describe the lactating abilities and it could represent the others important traits in lactation curve. Therefore these results could guide the farmers to manage their farm and feeding the cattle to be more effective.

This paper proposes the study and development of a low-cost unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) for survey with virtual pilot view that can be applied for both civilian and military purposes. Our prototype UAV is a fixed upper wing type with 1.6 m.-span 0.9 m.-length 0.2 m.-height and 2.6 kg.-payload. Its technical specification is as follows: 2500 m.-range 1000 m.-ceiling 60 km/hr-speed 1 hr-endurance 12 VDC/3000 mA/hr-power supply >90 azimuth-angle adjustable and >45 elevation-angle adjustable. The advantages of our prototype include low cost compactness and light weight. Furthermore it can be applied in several missions such as missing person search sky surveillance geo-informatics etc

The objective of this study was to develop a technique for detection of the water added in raw milk using Inter Digital Electrode (IDE) other than using conventional methods such as determination of specific gravity or of the freezing point temperature and the compression on frozen samples. The assumption capacitance value of added water in raw milk will be varied with the quantities of added water. The experiment was performed by using a LCR (GW INSTEK LCR-817) meter to measure the capacitance value of milk contaminated water from 0 to 90% and electrodes which are normal and ground of different electrode number (N) of 7 10 and 13 width (W) of 1 and 2 mm. and length (L) of 10 20 30 40 and 50 mm. Results shown that the capacitance value of the water added in raw milk were lower than the raw milk without added water. Additional the W1L50N13G (W=1 mm. L=50 mm. N=13 and grounded) detects the water added in raw milk with R2 of 0.9904

This article presents texture analysis of crispy snack products by using Acoustic Emission (AE) to measure sound that occurred when the products were chewed or broken. This technique has currently gained great interest from food scientists. A sound emitted from food was found to be related with microstructure and crispness. Measurement of sound emitted from food when it was chewed consists of three main steps: 1) Apply force on piece of food with a texture analyzer; 2) Detect sound signal with an acoustic envelop detector; and 3) Interpret the collected data of mechanical force and acoustic emission.