Spectral reflectance data originating from Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) imagery is a valuable tool to monitor plant nutrition, reduce nitrogen (N) application to real needs, thus producing both economic and environmental benefits. The objectives of the trial were i) to compare the spectral reflectance of 3 turfgrasses acquired via UAV and by a ground-based instrument; ii) to test the sensitivi...

R-parity stands as an ad hoc assumption in the most popular version of the supersymmetric standard model. More than fifteen years’ studies of R-parity violations have been restricted to various limiting scenarios. We illustrate how the single-VEV parametrization provides a workable framework to analyze the phenomenology of the complete theory of supersymmetry without R-parity. In our comprehens...

Phenomenological aspects of avor changing processes are considered in the context of the supergravity model. Various avor changing neutral current processes in B and K decays are calculated in such models. For lepton avor violating processes the + ! ee branching ratio and the T odd triple vector correlation for the + ! e + e + e ? process are investigated in the SU(5) SUSY GUT. Possibility to n...

Motivated by the prospects for an improved test of lepton universality in K → lν decays by the NA62 experiment at CERN, we study predictions for the possible lepton nonuniversality in K → lν decays in supersymmetric models. Violations of μ− e universality in this process may originate from mixing effects in the right-handed slepton sector, providing a unique window into this aspect of supersymm...

Patterns of synthesis and breakdown of carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) stores are relatively well known. But the role of mobilized stores as substrates for growth remains less clear. In this article, a novel approach to estimate C and N import into leaf growth zones was coupled with steady-state labeling of photosynthesis ((13)CO(2)/(12)CO(2)) and N uptake ((15)NO(3)(-)/(14)NO(3)(-)) and compartmen...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of early weaning fall-born calves on heifer and calf performance in Florida. Over two consecutive years, 3-yr-old Braford and Brahman x Angus first-calf heifers were assigned randomly to one of two treatments; early-weaned (EW, n = 20 and 30 for yr 1 and 2, respectively) and normal-weaned (NW, n = 20 and 38 for yr 1 and 2, respect...

On-farm production of arbuscular mycorrhizal [AM] fungus inoculum can be employed to make the benefits of the symbiosis more available to vegetable farmers. Experiments were conducted to modify an existing method for the production of inoculum in temperate climates to make it more readily adoptable by farmers. Perlite, vermiculite, and peat based potting media were tested as diluents of yard cl...

Some of the motivations for quark and lepton compositeness, and some problems associated with present schemes, are noted. One model is discussed in which quarks and leptons are taken as composites of spin-1/2 fermions F with charges ±1/2 and spinless bosons S̄ with charges 1/6 and −1/2.

[1] The evaluation of the relationship between satellitederived vegetation indices (normalized difference vegetation index and normalized difference water index) and soil moisture improves our understanding of how these indices respond to soil moisture fluctuations. Soil moisture deficits are ultimately tied to drought stress on plants. The diverse terrain and climate of Oklahoma, the extensive...

This article reviews and updates the Standard Model prediction of the τ lepton g−2. Updated QED and electroweak contributions are presented, together with new values of the leading-order hadronic term, based on the recent low energy ee data from BaBar, CMD-2, KLOE and SND, and of the hadronic light-by-light contribution. The total prediction is confronted to the available experimental bounds on...