introduction salinity is a major abiotic stress that affects approximately 7% of the world’s total land area. cotton (gossypium barbadense l.) is considered as one of the most important cash crops which is widely used for agricultural and industrial purposes. although, cotton is classified as one of the most salt-tolerant major crops but its growth and development are adversely affected by soil...

Entity Set Expansion, which refers to expanding a human-input seed set to a more complete set which belongs to the same semantic category, is an important task for open information extraction. Because human-input seeds may be ambiguous, sparse etc., the quality of seeds has a great influence on expansion performance, which has been proved by many previous researches. To improve seeds quality, t...

In this paper, we consider the expansion processes of competence sets which have asymmetric cost functions, intermediate skills, and compound skills; among the skills, cyclic connections are possible. We introduce the concept of the stage expansion process (SEP) of the competence set, and provide mathematical programming methods to ®nd a minimal cost SEP and the ordering of expansion. Ó 2000 El...

Background & Aim: Deanaie thyme (Thymus daenensis Celak.), a member of the Lamiaceae family.  Thymus in one of the most important medicinal and aromatic plants that was used in pharmaceutical, food, cosmetics hygienic industries in most of developed countries. Recent studies have showed that thyme have strong antibacterial, antifungal, spasmolytic and antioxidant acti...

Fall dormancy (FD) in alfalfa (Medicago sativa L.) can be described using 11 FD ratings, is widely used as an important indicator of stress resistance, productive performance and spring growth. However, the contrasting growth strategies in internode length and internode number in alfalfa cultivars with different FD rating are poorly understood. Here, a growth chamber study was conducted to inve...

Iso-surface extraction is one of the most important approaches for volume rendering, and iso-contouring is one of the most effective methods for iso-surface extraction. Unlike most other methods having their search domain be the whole dataset, iso-contouring does its search only on a relatively small subset of the original dataset. This subset, called a seed-set, has the property that every iso...