in this study, postharvest characteristics of eight cut rose cultivars (valentine, king pride, prima donna, black baccara, victory, papagayo, royal baccara and yellow island) were investigated in a growth room with temperature of 20 ºc, relative humidity of 50% and light intensity of 10 µmol m-2 s-1 in autumn 2008. among cultivars significant differences were found for all of the attributes eva...

We construct new geon-type black holes in D ≥ 4 dimensions for Einstein’s theory coupled to gauge fields. A static nondegenerate vacuum black hole has a geon quotient provided the spatial section admits a suitable discrete isometry, and an antisymmetric tensor field of rank 2 or D − 2 with a pure F 2 action can be included by an appropriate (and in most cases nontrivial) choice of the field str...

The Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN) is creating, extending, and deploying a production grid to enable groups of biomedical researchers to share complex and large-scale data. In this talk we describe the BIRN, its structure and overall Information Technology Structure. In addition we will describe the details of how the complete software stack is integrated, managed and deployed. ...

It is well known that the inequivalent unitary irreducible representations (UIR’s) of the mapping class group G of a 3-manifold give rise to “theta sectors” in theories of quantum gravity with fixed spatial topology. In this paper, we study several families of UIR’s of G and attempt to understand the physical implications of the resulting quantum sectors. The mapping class group of a three-mani...

We present a model of a financial market where some traders are “cursed” when choosing how much to invest in a risky asset, failing to take into account what prices convey about others’ private information. In contrast to rational-expectations equilibrium (REE), the model predicts extensive trade, which can increase in the presence of more private information. The price responds more to public ...