Cytoplasmic male sterility (CMS) is the failure to produce functional pollen, which is inherited maternally. And it is known that anther development is modulated through complicated interactions between nuclear and mitochondrial genes in sporophytic and gametophytic tissues. However, an unbiased transcriptome sequencing analysis of CMS in cotton is currently lacking in the literature. This stud...

We have developed a novel hybridization platform that utilizes nuclear male sterility to produce hybrids in maize and other cross-pollinating crops. A key component of this platform is a process termed Seed Production Technology (SPT). This process incorporates a transgenic SPT maintainer line capable of propagating nontransgenic nuclear male-sterile lines for use as female parents in hybrid pr...

Software systems are increasingly becoming more and more complex. The functions they are supposed to support are increasing both in number and in complexity. Because of this, the size of software systems of today is constantly increasing. Traditional software maintenance processes have often resulted in a degradation of the structure, documentation, and source code of the maintained software sy...

In this paper, we investigate a design method for cable-driven snake arm maintainer (SAM) and its dynamics modelling. A SAM can provide redundant degrees of freedom high structural stiffness, as well load capacity simplified structure ideal various narrow extreme working environments, such nuclear power plants. However, their serial-parallel configuration cable drive system make the strongly co...

February 15, 2013 Type Package Title Functions for actuarial scientists Version 3.0 Date 2012-09-13 Author Saralees Nadarajah Maintainer Saralees Nadarajah Depends R (>= 2.15.0), reliaR, actuar, hypergeo Description Computes the probability density function, hazard rate function, integrated hazard rate function and the quantile function for 44 commonly used...

This S maintenance maturity assessment model is divided into four process domains containing 18 "Key Process Area", each in turn containing "Roadmaps". Roadmaps are bodies of knowledge containing recommended practices that are linked to one another. Using the S software maintenance maturity model, this paper describes the assessment process and results of an individual maintainer process mainta...