A study was conducted on genetics of some important agronomic traits (number of productive tillers per hill, plant height (cm), panicle length (cm), number of spikelets per panicle and 100-grain weight) in rice during 2012-13. Two lines were crossed with five testers in line × tester fashion to produce 10 F1 hybrids. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotyp...

A study was conducted on genetics of some important agronomic traits (number of productive tillers per hill, plant height (cm), panicle length (cm), number of spikelets per panicle and 100-grain weight) in rice during 2012-13. Two lines were crossed with five testers in line × tester fashion to produce 10 F1 hybrids. Analysis of variance revealed significant differences among genotyp...

 Knowledge of the Saxaul dimensions used in sand dunes stabilization is considered essential for designing live windbreak in desert regions. This research aimed to collect and analysis data and was performed on the pruned and control shrubs of Haloxylon aphyllum L. in Yazd province, Iran in the last two decades. Our review clearly showed the superiority of shrubs pruned at the height of 35 cm i...

Progenitor models for the "luminous" subclass of Fast Blue Optical Transients (LFBOTs; prototype: AT2018cow) are challenged to simultaneously explain all their observed properties: fast optical rise times < days; peak luminosities >1e44 erg/s; low yields <0.1 Msun 56Ni; aspherical ejecta with a wide velocity range (<3000 km/s > 0.1-0.5 c increasing polar latitude); presence hydrogen-depleted-bu...

GG Tau is an ideal system for studying the structure of a circumbinary disk. Separated by 0.0025 (35 AU at d=140pc; Ghez et al. 1993, AJ 106), the stellar components of the binary are surrounded by a massive disk. Originally detected through thermal dust emission at millimeter wavelengths (Dutrey et al. 1994, A&A 286; Guilloteau et al. 1999, A&A in press), the disk was subsequently imaged in sc...

Institutional review board approval, with waived consent, was obtained to develop a spine-labeling algorithm with retrospectively obtained deidentified HIPAA-compliant data. An automated magnetic resonance (MR) imaging technique to rapidly survey the entire spine and provide definitive numbering of disks and vertebrae was compared with neuroradiologist assignments in 50 cases. Contiguous two-st...

Cefoxitin is increasingly recommended for detection of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) when using disk diffusion testing. In this study, 95 mecA-negative S. aureus isolates and a highly genetically diverse collection of mecA-positive S. aureus types (n=50) were used to investigate the influence of technical factors such as disk potency, incubation time, and temperature on...

The bright X-ray binary pulsar Hercules X-1 has a 35-day cycle in hard x-ray intensity: ”Main High state – low state – Short High state – low state”. This is caused by a tilted-twisted precessing accretion disk. What is less well known is that during low states the soft x-rays and extreme ultraviolet radiation are modulated at the orbital period . This radiation is mainly due to reflection off ...

Side-shift and disk-steer implement guidance systems were tested for differences in performance during cultivation on fields with 0 and 5% side slope. Test speeds were slow (4.8 km/h, 3 mph) and medium (8.0 km/h, 5 mph). Test path shapes included a tractor ramp, implement ramp, sine and curve. Performance measures included tractor positional error, implement positional error, torque from side f...

We report the first detection of molecule cyanomethyl, CH$_2$CN, in a protoplanetary disk. Until now, CH$_2$CN had only been observed at earlier evolutionary stages, giant molecular clouds TMC-1 and Sgr 2, prestellar core L1544. detect six transitions ortho-CH$_2$CN towards disk around nearby T Tauri star TW Hya. An excitation analysis reveals that disk-averaged column density, $N$, for is $(6....