In this issue of IEEE Antennas and Propagation Magazine , Dr. Qammer H. Abbasi, chair the IEEE Society (AP-S) Young Professional (YP) Ambassador Program Subcommittee writes about AP-S YP highlights newly selected ambassadors for 2022. Congratulations to all ambassadors—class 2022! As first batc...

Post-anthesis drought stress is the most important problem affecting wheat production in dryland fields, specially in Mediterranean regions. The main objective of this research was to evaluate drought tolerance indices in dryland wheat genotypes under post-anthesis drought stress. The research was including two different experiments. In each experiment, twenty dryland bread wheat genotypes were...

Drought is a wide-spread problem seriously influencing durum wheat (Triticum durum Desf.) production and quality, but development of resistant cultivars is hampered by the lack of effective selection criteria. The objective of this study was to evaluate the ability of several selection indices to identify drought resistance cultivars under a variety of environmental conditions. Twenty four duru...

Drought is an important factor limiting crop production in arid and semi-arid conditions. Drought indices which provide a measure of drought based on yield loss under drought condition in comparison to normal condition was used for screening drought-tolerant genotypes. This study was conducted to determine drought tolerant genotypes with high yield in stress and non-stress conditions. Ten barle...

In this work we address the problem of determining the asymptotic spectral measure of the product of independent, Gaussian random matrices with correlated entries, as the dimension and the number of multiplicative terms goes to infinity. More specifically, let {X p(N)}p=1 be a sequence of N × N independent random matrices with independent and identically distributed Gaussian entries of zero mea...

BACKGROUND Flare-ups in juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA) are characterized by joint pain and swelling and often accompanied with fatigue, negative emotions, and reduced participation in activities. To minimize the impact of JIA on the physical and psychosocial development and well-being of young people (YP), it is essential to regularly monitor disease activity and side effects, as well as t...

Atlantic Water (AW), the main source of heat and salt for Arctic Ocean, undergoes large transformations (cooling freshening) north Svalbard as it flows near surface above Yermak Plateau (YP). In September 2017, a SeaExplorer ocean glider deployed in West Spitsbergen Current (WSC) recovered documented circulation properties AW crossing YP. The sampled different branches flowing into around YP: W...

Yellow perch (YP) are metal tolerant fish that form large populations in many metal-impacted regions across Canada. While they are able to survive and reproduce successfully in environments with water and sediment metal concentrations that are toxic to many invertebrates, perch experience a suite of direct and indirect impacts. YP were studied in a series of Canadian Precambrian Shield lakes ne...

Spent culture medium from the human pancreatic carcinoma cell line HPC-YP, which can propagate in a protein-free, chemically defined medium without any other supplements, was analyzed for the presence of the cysteine protease, cathepsin L. The secreted form of cathepsin L was distinguished from the lysosomal form by its increased stability at alkaline pH, by its strong thermostability, and by i...