The estimation accuracy of plant dry matter by spectra- or remote sensing-based methods tends to decline when canopy coverage approaches closure; this is known as the saturation problem. This study aimed enhance and subsequently use critical nitrogen dilution curve (CNDC) diagnose N in Choy Sum analyzing combined information imaging height. A three-year experiment with different levels (0, 25, ...

Sound irrigation and nitrogen management strategies are necessary to achieve sustainable yield water use efficiency of winter wheat in the North China Plain (NCP). The coupled effects scheduling application mode (NAM) on growth, under drip were evaluated with a two-year field experiment, which consisted three levels (ISLs) (irrigating when soil consumption (SWC) reached 20, 35 50 mm, referred a...

1The first author was supported by Austrian Science Fund (FWF) project M 1408-N25. 2The second author is indebted to W. Hugh Woodin, Ilijas Farah, and Menachem Magidor for crucial conversations on the topics of this paper. He is also grateful to Andrés Caicedo and Paul Larson for many conversations on the topics of this paper in particular during the SQuaRE meetings at the AIM in Palo Alto, May...

The intention of this paper is to examine the impact of the inflation rate on the performance of the Egyptian stock market. Particular attention is paid to the effects of the rate of inflation on various stock market performance variables, in terms of market activity and market liquidity. From the co-integration analysis through error correction mechanisms Ž . ECM , significant long-run and sho...

Trade has been considered a condition for growth and development, a view that might have merits in explaining the rise of the Western world. I use a new data set from archival sources of eighteenth-century China to revisit this question. This analysis suggests previous studies of market integration, which attribute much growth to a reduction in transport costs, have overestimated these effects....

The paper surveys the literature on the growth performance of the East Asian economies, evaluates the sustainability of that performance, and provides a preliminary assessment of their long-term growth prospects in the aftermath of the current crisis. It highlights special features of East Asian growth, including unusually high factor accumulation and a favorable demographic transition, but arg...

South African sugarcane varieties N23 and N25 were compared against industry standards NCo376 and N19 on soils with low yield potential in four replicated, irrigated trials comprising a total of 17 crops, harvested either early, mid or late in the milling season. Chemical ripeners ethephon (2-chloroethanephosphonic acid) and Fusilade Super (fluazifop-p-butyl) were applied either alone or as a c...