The root is an important plant part contributing to peanut productivity underwater-limited conditions. Root volume, root surface area and root diameter may becharacters responding to pre-flowering drought (PFD) in peanut. The objectives ofthis study were to investigate the responses to PFD for root surface area, rootvolume and root diameter and to determine the inter-relationships among theresp...

To decide upon the need for partitioning, Students t test or Mann-Whitney^ U test are usually applied to compare the reference samples under study. But these tests may be too sensitive for this purpose: if the sizes of the two subgroups compared are large enough, small differences between subgroups without clinical importance may become statistically significant. For this reason, Harris & Boyd ...

T99 Differential expression of mitochondrial and extra-mitochondrial proteins in heart of low and high feed efficient broilers within a single male line. N. Tinsely*1, M. Iqbal1, N. R. Pumford1, K. Lassiter1, C. Ojano-Dirain1, J. P. Higgins1, W. Bottje1, T. Wing2, and M. Cooper2, 1Department of Poultry Science, Center of Excellence for Poultry Science, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, 2Cob...

Let K be a convex body in R and B be the Euclidean unit ball in R. We show that limt→0 |K| − |Kt| |B| − |Bt| = as(K) as(B) , where as(K) respectively as(B) is the affine surface area of K respectively B and {Kt}t≥0, {Bt}t≥0 are general families of convex bodies constructed from K, B satifying certain conditions. As a corollary we get results obtained in [M-W], [Schm],[S-W] and[W]. The affine su...

Mark Lawler, PhD; Anna Gavin, MD; Manuel Salto-Tellez, MD; Richard D. Kennedy, MD, PhD; Sandra Van Schaeybroeck, MD, PhD; Richard H. Wilson, MD; Denis Paul Harkin, PhD; Margaret Grayson; Ruth E. Boyd; Peter W. Hamilton, PhD; Darragh G. McArt, PhD; Jacqueline James, PhD; Tracy Robson, PhD; Robert D. Ladner, PhD; Kevin M. Prise, PhD; Joe M. O’Sullivan, MD; Timothy Harrison, PhD; Liam Murray, MD; ...

This article presents the results of an experimental study which aimed to evaluate the effect of surface wear on the friction properties of geosynthetic interfaces constituted of geomembranes and geospacers. The tests were performed in ramp test device, and the results showed the different sensitivities of the interfaces to the wear process. For the particular types of interfaces considered in ...

We theoretically analyze the influence of the Gouy phase shift on the nonlinear interaction between waves of different frequencies. We focus on chi((2))interaction of optical fields, e.g. through birefringent crystals, and show that focussing, stronger than suggested by the Boyd-Kleinman factor, can further improve nonlinear processes. An increased value of 3.32 for the optimal focussing parame...

We introduce a parallel thinning algorithm with directional substeps based on the collapse operation, which is guaranteed to preserve topology and to provide a thin result. Then, we propose two variants of a surface-preserving thinning scheme, based on this parallel directional thinning algorithm. Finally, we propose a methodology to produce filtered surface skeletons, based on the above thinni...