Perennial forms of Gossypium hirsutum are classified under seven races. Five Mesoamerican races would have been derived from the wild race 'yucatanense' from northern Yucatán. 'Marie-Galante', the main race in the Caribbean, would have developed from introgression with G. barbadense. The racial status of coastal populations from the Caribbean has not been clearly defined. We combined Ecological...

International open government initiatives are releasing an increasing volume of raw government datasets directly to citizens via the Web. The transparency resulting from these releases creates new application opportunities but also imposes new burdens inherent to large-scale distributed data integration, collaborative data manipulation and transparent data consumption. The Tetherless World Cons...

One of the largest selling points for The Weather Channel (TWC) is the ability to generate localized content for its subscribers, specifically local weather forecasts. To facilitate this localized content, TWC deploys smart devices in cable head ends. These smart devices are called STARs (Satellite Transmitter Addressable Receivers) and are responsible both for collecting weather data and displ...

The Weather Channel (TWC) is a leading provider of weather information to the general public. In this paper the reliability of their probability of precipitation (PoP) forecasts over a 14-month period at 42 locations across the United States is verified. It is found that PoPs between 0.4 and 0.9 are well calibrated for near-term forecasts. However, overall TWC PoPs are biased toward precipitati...

BACKGROUND Whether cardiac rehabilitation (CR) is effective in patients older than 75 years, who have been excluded from most trials, remains unclear. We enrolled patients 46 to 86 years old in a randomized trial and assessed the effects of 2 months of post-myocardial infarction (MI) CR on total work capacity (TWC, in kilograms per meter) and health-related quality of life (HRQL). METHODS AND...

Long term fluctuations in the abundance of common squid, Todarodes pacificus are taken in the waters around Korea and Japan from 1952 to 2003. The year-to-year fluctuations in the abundance in the Tsushima Warm current (TWC) region (Yellow sea- east China sea-east/Japan sea) revealed the same pattern with that in the Kuroshio-Oyashio Current (KOC) region (Northern Pacific) except for the period...

In this paper we describe a recently developed algorithm called Topological Weighted Centroid (TWC). TWC takes locations of an event of interest and analyzes the possible associated dynamics using the ideas of free energy and entropy. This novel mathematical tool has been applied to a real world example, the epidemic outbreak caused by Escherichia coli that occurred in Germany in 2011, to point...

composting of organic agricultural wastes is a sustainable method for recycling of the wastes. for determining the effects of tea waste compost (twc) and tree bark compost (tbc) on growing media and some quantity and quality of greenhouse lettuce cv. grate lake 118 this experiment was carried out based on a completely randomized design of four replications. the treatments were different mixture...

Spectral efficiency of low-density spreading non-orthogonal multiple access channels in the presence of fading is derived for linear detection with independent decoding as well as optimum decoding. The large system limit, where both the number of users and number of signal dimensions grow with fixed ratio, called load, is considered. In the case of optimum decoding, it is found that low-density...