nitrate and ammonium ions are the two major forms of nitrogen that taken up by plants, but they differ in their effects on growth and chemical composition of biochemical levels. in this research we examined the effect of nitrogen sources on growth and senescence of rice leaves in biochemical levels. our results showed that amounts of fresh and dry weights, total chlorophyll, rate of hill,s reac...

W. Gao, H. Zhu, K. Giovanello, K. Smith, D. Shen, J. Gilmore, and W. Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, Department of Biostatistics and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Radiology, University of Nort...

W. Gao, H. Zhu, K. Giovanello, K. Smith, D. Shen, J. Gilmore, and W. Lin Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States, Department of Biostatistics and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Psychology and BRIC, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, Department of Radiology, University of Nort...

We propose a simple and semi-parametric estimator for the tail index of a regular varying elliptical random vector. Since, for univariate random variables, our estimator boils down to the Hill estimator and it inherits the simplicity and asymptotic properties, we name it after Bruce M. Hill. The estimator is based on the distance between an elliptical probability contour and the outer – or exce...

Enforced hill-climbing is an effective deterministic hillclimbing technique that deals with local optima using breadth-first search (a process called “basin flooding”). We propose and evaluate a stochastic generalization of enforced hill-climbing for online use in goal-oriented probabilistic planning problems. We assume a provided heuristic function estimating expected cost to the goal with fla...

A great deal has been written, especially since the war, on off street parking. You have heard of the crying need for more off street parking in order to meet the needs of shoppers and thereby avoid a process of decentralization. Many parking authorities have been established and millions of dollars of public money invested in park­ ing facilities to provide space for all comers on a completely...

Vimal K. Derebail, JulieAnne G. McGregor, Romulo E. Colindres, Harsharan K. Singh and Abhijit V. Kshirsagar Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA; UNC Kidney Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel H...

This paper deals with completion of partial latin squares L = (lij) of order n with k cyclically generated diagonals (li+t,j+t = lij + t if lij is not empty; with calculations modulo n). There is special emphasis on cyclic completion. Here, we present results for k = 2, . . . , 7 and odd n ≤ 21, and we describe the computational method used (hill-climbing). Noncyclic completion is investigated ...

In my youth I used to wander in the mountains. I would gain a "feel" of the terrain and gradually build up a reliable intuition of how to get from here to there and back again. Always, on these expeditions, I would discover special places a tiny area, the only one, where fairy slippers grew; a pool in a rushing stream that was deep enough to swim in. Invariably I would find myself excitedly cli...