Unlike other major crops in which seeds provide most of the economic value, cotton seed is largely a by-product of more valuable fiber production and represents only approximately 15% of the farm gate value of the cotton crop. A cotton plant normally produces about 1.6 kg of seed for every kg of lint. Following ginning to remove the lint fiber, fuzzy cotton seed is either used directly as anima...

Improving cotton yield is a major breeding goal for Chinese upland cotton. Lint percentage is an important yield component and a critical economic index for cotton cultivars, and raising the lint percentage has a close relationship to improving cotton lint yield. To investigate the genetic architecture of lint percentage, a diversity panel consisting of 355 upland cotton accessions was grown, a...

The Baker Bells have been a Dartmouth fixture since 1928 when they first rang from the top of Baker Library. They mark the passage of time, ringing on the hour and half-hour. At 6pm every day, the sounds of the “Alma Mater” fill the campus. The bells can also be programmed to play everything from “Happy Birthday” to the Beatles. For our project, we decided to apply what we learned in class to i...

AIM The purpose of this study was to investigate the usefulness of the neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR), platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) Mean Platelet Volume (MPV) and Red Cell Distribution Width (RDW) in the differential diagnosis and follow-up of patients with Bells Palsy. MATERIAL AND METHODS Twenty-eight patients diagnosed with Bells Palsy and 28 control patients were included in t...

It is proposed that by using computing analysis software and 3D fabrication techniques, low cost plastic trumpet bells could be produced for different music genres by altering their timbres. These may be attached to the trumpet in a similar manner to that of a tuning bell trumpet. The novel bells are designed to eliminate or enhance particular harmonics to change their brightness by altering th...

I present MelodyMorph, a reconfigurable musical instrument designed with a focus on melodic improvisation. It is designed for a touch-screen interface, and allows the user to create “bells” which can be tapped to play a note, and dragged around on a pannable and zoomable canvas. Colors, textures and shapes of the bells represent pitch and timbre properties. “Recorder bells” can store and play b...

Optimal firm size and patterns of returns to scale among the local exchange companies in the U.S. telecommunications industry are estimated for the years: 1975, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1987 and 1990. The independent companies display increasing returns to scale, while the Baby Bells display constant or decreasing returns to scale. The independent companies operate at a scale smaller than optimal size...