Grain yield and yield components of winter wheat were recorded during 2-year field trials in Southern Bavaria, Germany. The impact of single ear sink size on the efficiency of grain production was studied in plants differing in single ear weight. While total grain yield showed only slight differences between N fertiliser treatments, significant variations were detected in harvest index and N ha...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to assess the effect of replacing all-cause mortality by death without limitation of medical treatments (LOMT) as the endpoint in a study of rapid response teams (RRTs) in hospitalized patients. We also described the time course of LOMT orders in patients dying on a general ward and the influence of RRTs on such orders. METHODS This study is a secondar...

Networks of sensor nodes are usually employed to monitor large areas, collecting data with regular frequency. This large volume of data has to be stored somewhere for answering to external user queries [3]. There are usually two main ways to store data. Source nodes, which are responsible for collecting data, can either locally store the data or transmit them to the sink, a powerful node connec...

Radiation use efficiency (RUE) of a crop is a function of several interacting physiological phenomena, each of which can be tackled independently from the point of view of genetic improvement. Although wheat breeding has not raised RUE substantially, theoretical calculations suggest room for improvement. Selection for higher rates of leaf photosynthesis at saturating light intensities (Amax) ha...

Changing climate and a legacy of fire-exclusion have increased the probability of high-severity wildfire, leading to an increased risk of forest carbon loss in ponderosa pine forests in the southwestern USA. Efforts to reduce high-severity fire risk through forest thinning and prescribed burning require both the removal and emission of carbon from these forests, and any potential carbon benefit...

The onset of nucleate boiling in the flow of water through a microchannel heat sink was investigated. The microchannels considered were 275 lm wide by 636 lm deep. Onset of nucleate boiling was identified with a high-speed imaging system and the heat flux at incipience was measured under various flow conditions. An analytical model was developed to predict the incipient heat flux as well as the...

An orientation of a grid is called unique sink orientation (USO) if each of its nonempty subgrids has a unique sink. Particularly, the original grid itself has a unique global sink. In this work we investigate the problem of how to find the global sink using minimum number of queries to an oracle. There are two different oracle models: the vertex query model where the orientation of all edges i...

The objectives of this work were to determine the effect of sink strength (presence or absence of pods) and nitrogen source (nodulating versus nonnodulating plants) on enzymic activities, chlorophyll concentration, and senescence of soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merr. cv Harosoy) isolines. A 2-year (1981-1982) field study was conducted.For both nodulated and nonnodulated plants, ribulose bisphospha...