Nitrogen fixed by legumes is the main nitrogen source in organic farming systems. The design of crop rotation is strongly depending on the knowledge of how much nitrogen is fixed by legumes. Also for farm scale budgeting of Nitrogen it is essential to know the amount of Nitrogen fixed by the single leguminous crop. According to the literature, the determination of Nitrogen fixation is expensive...

Rhododendron aureum Georgi is a perennial evergreen dwarf shrub that grows at all elevations within the alpine tundra of northern China. Previous research has investigated the plant communities of R. aureum; however, little information is available regarding interspecific competition and underground soil microbial community composition. The objective of our study was to determine whether the pr...

A geometric formal method for perturbatively expanding functional integrals arising in quantum gauge theories is described when the spacetime is a compact riemannian manifold without boundary. This involves a refined version of the Faddeev-Popov procedure using a generalised Lorentz gauge-fixing condition with background gauge field chosen to be a general critical point for the action functiona...

Soft variable fixing has emerged as one of the main techniques that the area of matheuristics can contribute to general metaheuristics. Recent years have in fact witnessed a fruitful interplay of methods that were originally proposed as general metaheuristcs with methods rooted in mathematic programming, which can be applied alone or as hybrids for solving combinatorial optimization problems. I...

A complement (C)-dependent antiglobulin assay was utilized to determine the reactivity of non-C-fixing monoclonal antibodies (MoAb) with human granulocyte-macrophage progenitor cells (CFU-GM). The variables of the assay were analyzed with non-C-fixing MoAb against Ia antigens, including CR11-462, which recognizes the same (or spatially close) determinant identified by the C-fixing anti-Ia MoAb ...

L. Fejes Tóth [1] introduced the notion of fixing system for a compact, convex body M ⊂ Rn. Such a system F ⊂ bd M stabilizes M with respect to translations. In particular, every minimal fixing system F is primitive, i.e., no proper subset of F is a fixing system. In [2] lower and upper bounds for cardinalities of mimimal fixing systems are indicated. Here we give an improved lower bound and sh...

The lack of women in leadership across higher education has been problemitised in the literature. Often contemporary discourses promote ‘fixing the women’ as a solution. Consequently, interventions aimed at helping women break through ‘the glass ceiling’ abound. This article argues that the gendered power relations at play in universities stubbornly maintain entrenched inequalities whereby, reg...

This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel way. Studying banks in India, I …nd that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is signi…cant cross-sectional targeting, with large increas...

The timely fixing of bugs is important to ensure software quality. In Open Source Software (OSS) development, behaviors of stakeholders impact the bug fixing process, especially the different stages respectively. However, most of the existing studies on impact factors of bug fixing time usually treat bug fixing process as a whole, while neglecting the particularity at its different stages. Igno...

in order to study the response of concentration and composition of essential oil of coriander (coriandrum sativum) to cattle manure and nitrogen fixing bacteria, an experiment was conducted as factorial experiment in the base of randomized complete blocks design with twelve treatments and three replications at homand research station in damavand of iran in 2010. the factors were cattle manure i...