To study impacts of sudden oak death (SOD), a lethal bark canker disease caused by Phytophthora ramorum, we established permanent plots in Sonoma County forest types at risk of SOD. Baseline stand and tree health data were collected in 2001 and the plots were reassessed in 2004. The 250 plots (0.02 ha each) were located at 11 study locations in stands containing Quercus agrifolia, Q. kelloggii,...

We aim to study the set of color sets of continuous regions of an image given as a matrix of m rows over n ≥ m columns where each element in the matrix is an integer from [1, σ] named a color. The set of distinct colors in a region is called fingerprint. We aim to compute, index and query the fingerprints of all rectangular regions named rectangles. The set of all such fingerprints is denoted b...

The physicochemical parameters of groundwater at Auchi and South-Ibie were investigated to determine underground water quality in this environment. Water sampled locations categorized as Iyekhei (Iyekhei), Poly (Auchi PW), Hostel PH), Double Delight (DDH); are Levis Gas Plant (LGP), Pastoral Centre (PC), Global Castle Sawmill Road (GCHS), Arsenal and, Lagos Street (AHLS). A total number 80 samp...

conclusion to diminish the gap between iranian scientific radiology papers and other competitor countries in the region and achievement of document 2025 goals, multifold effort of the society of radiology is necessary. results results of the current study showed a ratio of 0.19% for iranian papers in pubmed database published in 2009. in addition, in 2009, iranian papers constituted 0.29% of th...

The fact that physical laws often admit certain kinds of space-time symmetries is often thought to be problematic for substantivalism — the view that space-time is as real as the objects it contains. The most prominent alternative, relationism, avoids these problems but at the cost of giving abstract objects (rather than space-time points) a pivotal role in the fundamental metaphysics. This inc...