The effectiveness of residential substance abuse treatment for women was examined using data from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment’s Residential Women and Children/Pregnant and Postpartum Women (RWC/PPW) Cross-Site Study and two other recent national This study was supported under contract 270-97-7030 from the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment (CSAT), Substance Abuse and Mental Healt...

In this paper, we discuss a method for extracting refrained phrases from a music signal by a discrete knowledge discovery processing approach instead of a signal processing approach. The proposed method consists of two processes: translating a music signal into a sequence of events that represent pitch information, and then mining the frequent patterns from the event sequences. The former is pe...

The objective of the Robot Work Crew (RWC) project is to investigate key challenges in multi-robot coordination when performing tightly coupled coordination tasks such as transporting and handling of long objects on challenging planetary terrain. In this paper, we focus on tightly coupled coordination of two Mars rovers transporting a long payload. We have developed practical decentralized comp...

Generally, primed seeds produce larger and heavier plants than non-primed seeds. This may be simply due to rapid emergence and extension of leaf growth, or the influence of other physiological processes. The effect of seed pretreatment with salicylic acid (SA) on some physiological and photosynthetic characteristics of the safflower seedlings, cv. Goldasht, was examined under field condition. T...

Global climate change is leading to changes in rainfall and temperature parameters. With the lack of water, coffee plant presents growth development restrictions. The air also affects plant, as each event requires an ideal temperature. genetic improvement can help overcome these difficulties with new cultivars more adapted effects change. Thus, studies are necessary characterize responses water...

Low and uneven germination is a serious problem for the successful production of okra seedlings. Priming seeds as well supplementation different plant growth regulators exhibited better response in seedling which eventually results higher yield. Therefore, present study was conducted to evaluate effects seed priming exogenous application salicylic acid (SA) on development. The were primed by 1 ...

Drought stress is a prevalent abiotic that adversely affects multiple physiological processes in plants, especially their photosynthetic capacity. Application of plant growth–promoting rhizobacteria (PGPR) has been considered as an eco-friendly strategy to ameliorate the deleterious effects drought on plants. The present study was carried out investigate Bacillus amyloliquefaciens QST713 growth...

In this paper, the author discusses effects of drought stress on pearl millet genotypes during vegetative stage development and plant’s mechanisms for survivability under with various nitrogen treatment regimes. A total six conditions were imposed plants, i.e., N0 (no Nitrogen-0 mM), N0+PEG-10%, LN (low Nitrogen-2.5 LN+PEG-10%, HN (high Nitrogen-7.0 HN+PEG-10%. Five days moderate caused signifi...

Triplaris gardneriana Wedd is a deciduous riparian tree occurring in areas with different climatic conditions Brazil, from the rainforest to tropical dry forest. An increase global temperature and drought events can change growth pattern establishment of species. To evaluate effects intermittent on T. seedlings, an experiment was performed using seedlings one month old subjected three water tre...