Intelligent computation of moisture content in shrinkable biomaterials

Drying Technology

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 1667-1676

  Martynenko, Alex ^a   Yang, Simon X ^a   Pan, Leilei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Drying; Ginseng; Modeling; Neural network; Predictors

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

DRYING MODEL; MULTI-FACTORIAL LINEAR REGRESSION; STATISTICAL APPROXIMATION;

DRYING;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BIOMATERIALS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; DRYING; LINEAR REGRESSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOISTURE; NEURAL NETWORKS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 34848902649     PISSN: 07373937     EISSN: 15322300     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07373930701590871     Document Type: Article

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