Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) crops can be severely damaged due to parasitism by the root-knot nematode (RKN) Meloidogyne incognita, but are protected when intercropped with crown daisy (Chrysanthemum coronarium L.). Root exudate may be the determining factor for this protection. An experiment using pots linked by a tube and Petri dish experiments were undertaken to confirm that tomato-crown da...

We show that two-loop corrections to the finite temperature effective potential in the MSSM can have a dramatic effect on the strength of the electroweak phase transition, making it more strongly first order. The change in the order parameter v/T c can be as large as 75% of the one-loop daisy improved result. This effect can be decisive to widen the region in parameter space where erasure of th...

We investigate the effective potential for a scalar Φ 4 theory with spontaneous symmetry breaking at finite temperature. All 'daisy' and 'super daisy' diagrams are summed up and the properties of the corresponding gap eqation are investigated. It is shown exactly that the phase transition is first order.

We describe full system simulation of DAISY (Dynamically Architected Instruction Set from Yorktown). At runtime DAISY dynamically translates code for a PowerPC processor into code for an underlying VLIW processor. Our style of simulation can also be used in the context of full system emulation à la SimOS and SimICS. Unlike SimOS and SimICS, DAISY emulation is operating system and device indepen...

I always knew Daisy would die before reaching adulthood. She was my fourth child, born prematurely in December 2004 with a severe form of rare genetic condition called Costello syndrome. Daisy required complex care, but every decision about her care was made on the basis of improving the quality of her life, which meant helping her do the things she loved, such as being at home with her family,...

In this paper, we propose the hierarchical daisy architecture, which provides causal delivery of messages sent to any subset of processes. The architecture provides fault tolerance and maintains the amount of control information within a reasonable size. It divides processes into logical groups. Messages inside a logical group are sent directly, while messages that need to cross logical groups’...

An in vitro, batch incubator (Daisy(II)) was used to simplify the 3-step, in vitro procedure (TSP) to reduce the cost and labor involved in the determination of intestinal digestion of proteins. Four tests were conducted to study the effects of the type of pepsin (P-7012 and P-7000; Sigma, St. Louis, MO), the type of bags used for the incubation of samples (R510 and F57; Ankom Technology, Fairp...

The temperature phase transition in the N-component scalar field theory with the spontaneous symmetry breaking is investigated in the pertur-bative approach.The second Legendre transform and consideration of the gap equations in the extrema of the free energy functional is used. The super daisy and beyond resummations are applied. In the super daisy approximation a first order phase transition ...