to evaluate the effect of seeding rate on important agronomic traits in three winter rapeseed (brassica napus l.) cultivars, two field experiments were carried out as split plot arrangement in a complete block design with three replications during 2006-2008 growing seasons. three rapeseed cultivars (okapi, modena and licord) and three seeding rates (6, 8 and 10 kg/ha)) were randomized in main p...

In recent years, Cloud Computing (CC) has transformed from a new trend to IT management reality. Its potential promises to significantly change computing and benefit many organisations but at the same time uncertainty and the need for managerial guidance prevail. To benefit from the opportunities that CC promises, organisations need to adapt to the new circumstances that this phenomenon trigger...

Bisphosphonates (BPs) are the most widely used drugs for treatment of osteoporosis but prolonged use BPs might increase risk atypical femur fracture (AFF). There only a few studies that address bone material quality in patients on long-term BP with or without AFFs. We analyzed 52 trans-iliac biopsies from therapy (n = 26) and AFF. At microscopic level, degree mineralization (DMB) was assessed w...

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Lithium containing droplet and cluster targets irradiated by laser pulses are proposed as prospective source of for soft x-ray lithography. Analytical model and simulations show that laser with repetition rate of several MHz with energy of several mJ and pulse duration 10 ps is required.

We show that according to the GRB internal shock model the pulse duration and the interval between neighboring pulses are correlated and have a similar distribution. We analyze a sample of bright long bursts and find that the pulses duration have a lognormal distribution while the intervals has an excess of long intervals (relative to lognormal distribution). This excess can be explained by the...

Age at maturity has been suggested to be an important life-history trait with substantial potential for influencing the evolution of life histories. Using known reproductive histories of 90 female wood ducks (Aix sponsa) from a long-term study (1982–96), we investigated the fitness consequences of changes in age at maturity. Female wood ducks that attained sexual maturity as yearlings had a sig...

We extend Duration Calculus to a logic which allows description of Discrete Processes where several steps of computation can occur at the same time point. The resulting logic is called Duration Calculus of Weakly Monotonic Time (WDC). It allows effects such as true synchrony and digitisation to be modelled. As an example of this, we formulate a novel semantics of Timed CSP assuming that the com...

Effects of stimulus duration and inter-letter spacing were studied in a letter-in-string identification paradigm. Participants were shown strings of 5 random consonants (e.g., PGKDM) centered on fixation and were asked to identify the letter that had appeared at a post-cued location. Stimulus duration was manipulated in Experiment 1 (13 ms-91 ms), and inter-letter spacing manipulated in Experim...