Background: Channel catfish (Ictalurus punctatus) are important to both commercial aquaculture and recreational fisheries. Little published data is available on length-weight relationships of channel catfish in Michigan. Though there is no record of public or private stocking, channel catfish appeared in Lake Diane between 1984 and 1995 and it has developed into an excellent fishery. Materials ...

Wire length minimization ( W L M ) has received szgnificant attention in the compaction stage of VLSI layout synthesis. In most cases, reduction in wire length also results in better circuit yield. However, a trade-off may stall exist between total wire length and yield. In WLM only the area/length of the layout patterns is considered whereas for yield enhancement both the area of the layout pa...

Limitation of inorganic phosphate in the culture medium allows stalk elongation in wild-type Caulobacter crescentus. Mutants unable to form long stalks were isolated.

determination of milk yield potential using an accurate method is essential for assessing nutritional requirements, evaluation of genetic potential, lamb growth and survival, management decisions and improving performance traits of sheep flocks. exogenous oxytocin injection is applied to estimate milk secretion rate in sheep. oxytocin is a neurohormone produced in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysi...

in order to evaluate the effects of planting date and corm density on yield and some other traits of saffron under climatic conditions of malayer in the west of iran, an experiment was conducted using split plots based on randomized complete blocks design with four replications. different planting dates (15th july, 15th august and 15th september) were allocated in the main plots and different c...

One of the main results of the present work is a computation of local IC stalks of the Schubert strata closures in the spaces Z. We prove that the generating functions of these stalks are given by the generic (or periodic) Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials, see the Theorem 6.9. We understand that this result was known to G.Lusztig for a long time, cf. [L3] §11. His proof was never published though, a...

BACKGROUND Understanding factors that govern lignocellulosic biomass recalcitrance is a prerequisite for designing efficient 2nd generation biorefining processes. However, the reasons and mechanisms responsible for quantitative differences in enzymatic digestibility of various biomass feedstocks in response to hydrothermal pretreatment at different severities are still not sufficiently understo...