This study describes morphological diversity and relationship of 14 cultivars and 133 wild fig accessions from central Zagros Mountains located in the west of Iran, based on 58 morphological characters. Among all characters, secondary drooping branches, number of bark tubers, shape of central lobe, length of central lobe/length of lamina, little lateral lobes, shape of leaf without lobed, fruit...

The shape of the human erythrocyte is normally maintamed in vivo as a biconcave disc for 120 days. In vitro. the cell shape can be altered readily by amphipathic cornpounds; however. given time and an energy source. the cells can recover the discoid morphology. An active shape control mechanism is postulated to regulate erythrocyte shape. The shape recovery process is a necessary element in rev...

Recent experimental studies of Bose-Einstein Correlations in Z fragmentation are reviewed in view of the need to understand their apparent suppression for pions originating from different W’s. Particular features discussed are source elongation, position-momentum correlation, nonGaussian shape of the correlator, transverse-mass dependence, density dependence and dilution, space-time shape of th...

Recent experimental studies of Bose-Einstein Correlations in Z fragmentation are reviewed in view of the need to understand their apparent suppression for pions originating from different W’s. Particular features discussed are source elongation, position-momentum correlation, nonGaussian shape of the correlator, transverse-mass dependence, density dependence and dilution, space-time shape of th...

Little is known about how patterns of cell types are organized to form brain structures of appropriate size and shape. To study this process, we employed in vivo electroporation during midbrain development to create ectopic sources of Sonic Hedgehog, a signaling molecule previously shown to specify different neuronal cell types in a concentration-dependent manner in vitro. We provide direct evi...

Recent experimental studies of Bose-Einstein Correlations in Z fragmentation are reviewed in view of the need to understand their apparent suppression for pions originating from different W’s. Particular features discussed are source elongation, position-momentum correlation, nonGaussian shape of the correlator, transverse-mass dependence, density dependence and dilution, space-time shape of th...

A fixed-rate shape–gain quantizer for the memoryless Gaussian source is proposed. The shape quantizer is constructed from wrapped spherical codes that map a sphere packing in 1 onto a sphere in , and the gain codebook is a globally optimal scalar quantizer. A wrapped Leech lattice shape quantizer is used to demonstrate a signal-to-quantization-noise ratio within 1 dB of the distortion-rate func...

In this article a novel algorithm is presented for 2D shape interpolation using the intrinsic shape parameters of a piecewise linear curve. The skeletons of two given shapes are computed and the smooth transformation of distance fields is driven by metamorphosis from the skeleton of the source object to that of the target one. We introduce feature graphs, linear forms of skeletons, to guide the...

In this study of the informativeness of shadows for the perception of object shape, observers viewed shadows cast by a set of natural solid objects and were required to discriminate between them. In some conditions the objects underwent rotation in depth while in other conditions they remained stationary, thus producing both deforming and static shadows. The orientation of the light source cast...