1Principal Entomologist and Project Leader (retired), Forestry Sciences Laboratory, USDA Forest Service, Moscow, ID; 2Forest Entomologist, USDA Forest Service, Forest Health Protection, Northern Region, Coeur d’Alene, ID. Douglas-fir beetle galleries are distinctive, having eggs laid individually in niches alternating on opposite sides of the gallery. The Douglas-fir beetle (Dendroctonus pseudo...

Quantitative analysis of production through evaluation of inputs consumption quantity is of main principles in agricultural policies, which is followed by increasing in production through optimal use of resources. This study has been conducted to estimate different types of production functions in mechanized farms of broiler chicks located in Gorgan city. Cross-section survey data were gathered...

The moduli space of complex structures of a polarized Kähler manifold is of fundamental interest to algebraic geometers and to string theorists. The study of its geometry is greatly enriched by considering the Hodge structure of the underlying manifolds. The moduli space at infinity is particularly interesting because it is related to the degeneration of Kähler manifolds. Even when we know very...

In order to solve the problem that the traditional Harris comer operator hasn’t the property of variable scales and is sensitive to noises, an improved three scale Harris corner detection algorithm was proposed. First, three scale spaces with the characteristic of scale invariance were constructed using discrete Gaussian convolution. Then, Harris scale invariant detector was used to extract com...

There is broad consensus that withholding or withdrawing medical interventions is morally permissible when requested by competent patients or, in the case of patients without decision-making capacity, when the interventions no longer confer a benefit to the patient or when the burdens associated with the interventions outweigh the benefits received. The withdrawal or withholding of measures suc...

The index formula of Douglas is a formula which expresses the index of a Fredholm Toeplitz operator with a discontinuous symbol as the limit of the indices of a family of Fredholm Toeplitz operators with continuous symbols. This paper is concerned with Toeplitz operators on the Bergman space A of the unit ball of C. The symbols are supposed to be matrix functions with entries in C+H∞ or to be c...