We describe the Maple [23] implementation of multivariate factorization over general finite fields. Our first implementation is available in Maple V Release 3. We give selected details of the algorithms and show several ideas that were used to improve its efficiency. Most of the improvements presented here are incorporated in Maple V Release 4. In particular, we show that we needed a general to...

We provide here our response to Zeide (2010) comment (Zeide, B. 2010. Using strong inference to falsify differential equation models of sugar maple height growth—Discussion. MCFNS 2(1):12-14) on our earlier article of the same title.

Platt’s research strategy called ‘strong inference’ is often studied, but is difficult to apply. Here strong inference is applied in selecting differential equation models of sugar maple, Acer saccharum M., height growth. Two model groups proposed by Zeide (1993; Zeide, B. 1993. Analysis of growth equations. For. Sci. 39(3):594-616.) are supplemented with two additional groups, 1) size decline ...

The physical mechanisms and molecular-level picture of laser-induced material ejection from frozen solutions of polymer molecules in a volatile matrix are investigated in a series of coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations. The simulations are performed for polymer concentrations up to 6 wt % and laser fluences covering the range from the regime where molecular ejection is limited to matr...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Natural and anthropogenic disturbances can act as stresses on tree vigour. According to Manion's conceptual model of tree disease, the initial vigour of trees decreases as a result of predisposing factors that render these trees more vulnerable to severe inciting stresses, stresses that can then cause final vigour decline and subsequent tree death. This tree disease model wa...

Three model communities of trembling aspen (monoculture, and mixed with either paper birch or sugar maple) were grown for seven years in elevated atmospheric CO(2) and O(3) using Free Air CO(2) Enrichment (FACE) technology. We utilized trends in species' importance, calculated as an index of volume growth and survival, as indications of shifting community composition. For the pure aspen communi...

Limited biological information about Phyllophaga ephilida , a major sweet potato pest in Louisiana, is available. In 2001 and 2002, a study was conducted in the laboratory to investigate the feeding preference of adult Phyllophaga ephilida (Say) (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) for the foliage of eight woody plant species: water oak ( Quercus nigra L.), live oak ( Quercus virginiana Mill.), red maple...

We studied the effect of high ozone (O(3)) concentration (110-490 nmol mol(-1)) on regenerating aspen (Populus tremuloides) and maple (Acer saccharum) trees at an open-air O(3) pollution experiment near Rhinelander WI USA. This study is the first of its kind to examine the effects of acute O(3) exposure on aspen and maple sprouts after the parent trees, which were grown under elevated O(3) and/...