Withholding alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) irrigations during the summer, a practice referred to as summer irrigation termination (SIT), can conserve substantial amounts of water in long-season desert environments; however, plant mortality associated with SIT may be substantial. Proper timing of re-irrigation is critical for minimizing mortality and yield reductions following SIT. Procedures that...

(1) Department of Respiratory Medicine, National H Imperial College London, London, UK (2) MRC and Asthma UK Centre in Allergic Mechanism UK (3) Centre for Respiratory Infections, Imperial College L (4) Sezione di Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio, Cent Malattie Infiammatorie Croniche delle Vie Aeree Correlate dell’Apparato Respiratorio (CEMICEF), U Ferrara, Italy (5) Respiratory Pharmacology...

Plasticity in crown architecture, contributing to leaf arrangement within crown, is an important feature for whole plant carbon assimilation and survival. In this study, I examined the plasticity in crown architecture to light condition and developmental stage by the changes in shoot production. Rhododendron reticulatum expands crown with orthotropic growth in monopodial branching in young stag...

We describe our experiments for the shot boundary detection, high-level feature extraction and search. In the shot boundary detection task, we employ our proven method based on the calculation of distances between colour histograms of frames over a range of timescales. For the search task, we tested a different system. This year, content based search is complemented with a new relevance feedbac...

The chief goal of full coronal restoration using preformed stainless steel crowns (SSC) is replication of normal crown form and function. Marginal adaptation of SSCs involves appropriate crown size selection, trimming the crown form to achieve proper length, crimping crown edges to proximate the prepared tooth, and finishing and polishing the crown form. This report about SSC restoration focuse...

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