A large-scale pruning study was established in the winter of 1999 to2000 at seven different sites on Green Diamond Resource Company forestlands in Humboldt County. The objective of this study was to determine the effects of pruning on increment, epicormic sprouting, stem taper, heartwood formation, and bear damage on these young trees. Pruning treatments varied pruning severity and were usually...

Increment and decrement probe thresholds were measured during the presentation of two types of temporal masking stimuli. In Experiment 1, we measured thresholds for increment or decrement rectangular probes presented during the presentation of an increment or decrement Gaussian masking stimulus. We find that thresholds are higher when the probe and the Gaussian mask are of the same sign (e. g. ...

Given a recursive (datalog) query, the nonrecursive incremental evaluation approach uses nonrecursive (datalog) programs to compute the difference of the answers to the query against successive databases between updates. The mechanism used in this approach is called a “First-Order Incremental Evaluation System” (FOIES). We show that for two large classes of datalog queries, called “generalized ...

In this study, the total peak of joints’ torque, work, and the maximum jump height were measured in ten physically active male subjects performing the squat jump (SJ), and squat jump with arm swing (SJA). Accordingly, arm swing caused an increment in the heights of squat jump (p<0.001).The results revealed relationships between body mass and height with the total peak of joints’ torque (0.58<r<...

Soft tissue cutting is an important task in surgery simulators. We use a separation of elements approach instead of destroying [2] or subdividing [1][5] the elements. Previously we have started a new cutting approach for 2D masssprings models: separating the elements [4]. It does not increment the number of elements (as in the subdivision approach) and maintains the same mass during simulations...

1. The initial biochemical changes of compensatory hypertrophy occur well within 1 hour of unilateral nephrectomy and perhaps within the first few minutes.2. The initial increment in rRNA is from decreased metabolism rather than from increased synthesis.3. Changes in the processing of mRNA precursors are probably also important.4. Compensatory hypertrophy is regulated by a humoral stimulus or s...