Cotton Quality Measurements - Friday Early Morning

Friday, January 6, 2012: 8:00 AM-10:00 AM
Miami (Orlando World Center Marriott)
8:00 AM
Relationship Between Three Cotton Trash Measurements: HVI, SA, and AFIS
Yongliang Liu, USDA-ARS-SAA; Devron Thibodeaux, USDA-ARS-SAA, Cotton Quality Research Station; Gary Gamble, USDA-ARS
8:15 AM
Enhancing Fiber Cross-Section Measurements to Eliminate Bias in the Cotton Maturity Reference
Bugao Xu, The University of Texas at Austin; XiaoWen Guo, The University of Texas at Austin
8:30 AM
Comparison of NIR Methods for Measuring Cotton Fiber Maturity and Fineness
James E. Rodgers, SRRC-ARS-USDA; Chanel A. Fortier, SRRC-ARS-USDA; Xiaoliang Cui, SRRC-ARS-USDA
8:45 AM
The Use of Monte Carlo Techniques to Study the Effect of Cotton Fiber Properties on Yarn Hairiness
Alice Wambaire Waithaka, Kenya Industrial Research and Development Institute
9:00 AM
Influence of Finishing On Hand of Cotton Fabrics
Michael Nyoun Mitla, DELHI UNIVERSITY