breeding and cropping cultivars with high weed competitiveness have played an important role in the non-chemical weed management. this experiment was carried out in order to study the effect of nitrogen on weed tolerance and competition indices of five wheat cultivars at the research field of agricultural faculty, university of mohaghegh ardabili, during 2010-2011 growing season. experimental f...

the augmented gravity model was employed to determine iran's trading model and agricultural export directions in the case of cross section analysis in 2005 for 64 countries which are considered as iran's main export market. besides, another explanatory variable named trade conformity index (tci) was added to the model. this index was employed to identify iran's trading model. als...

We developed a competitive index assay for murine listeriosis that tests the virulence of Listeria monocytogenes strains in different organs and at various times postinoculation. Studies presented here demonstrate the reproducibility of this assay during primary and secondary infection of inbred and outbred mice. We verified the validity of this assay by performing competitive index analysis of...

BACKGROUND Arterial stiffness increases with age, and chronic endurance exercise has been shown to attenuate increases in arterial stiffness in older individuals. The aim of this study was to assess the effect of varying fitness levels on wave reflection in young healthy adults. METHODS A total of 32 subjects (16 competitive endurance athletes and 16 recreationally active subjects) underwent ...

AIMS The relative role of multiple determinants of left atrial volume index (LAVi) in athletes and non-athletes is not fully defined. Thus, we decided to prospectively assess the determinants of LAVi in healthy individuals and competitive athletes over a wide age range. METHODS AND RESULTS Four hundred and eighteen healthy individuals (mean age 41.7 ± 15.6 years, range 16-84, 65% males, 38% c...

We present an index data structure for metric-space databases. The proposed method has the advantage of allowing an efficient use of secondary memory. In the case of index entirely loaded in main memory our strategy achieves competitive performance. Our experimental study shows that the proposed index outperforms other strategies known to be efficient in practice. A valuable feature of the prop...

background and objectivesintercropping or simultaneous growing of two or more crops on the same piece of land has the potential of enhanced ecosystem productivity. in a cereal-legume intercropping system, an increase in cereal and a decrease in legume intercrop yield is reported. several indices such as land equivalent ratio (ler), relative crowding coefficient (k), competitive ratio (cr), aggr...