The world is facing severe challenges in meeting the rapidly growing demand for water resources. In addition,irrigation water which is the largest use of water in most developing countries and arid and semi arid regions, will likelyhave to be diverted increasingly to meet the needs of the households in urban areas and industry sectors whilst remaining aprime engine of agricultural growth. A Lin...

This article was acceptedfor publication October 1, 1990. Occupational therapy has greatly increased the medical profession's awareness of sensory in­ put and its effect on motor output, based on the foundation proVided by Rood (McCormack, 1990; Trombly, 1989) and Ayres (1973, 1985). From her person­ al experience, Grandin (1986) offered a unique perspec­ tive on the importance of deep pressure...

In this paper, we propose a novel and simple fast block-matching algorithm (BMA), called adaptive rood pattern search (ARPS), which consists of two sequential search stages: 1) initial search and 2) refined local search. For each macroblock (MB), the initial search is performed only once at the beginning in order to find a good starting point for the follow-up refined local search. By doing so,...

The adaptive rood pattern search (ARPS) algorithm proposed by Nie and Ma has shown two to three times of search speed-up improvement over that of diamond search (DS) based on the MPEG4 Verification Model encoding platform. In this paper, first we have shown that the distribution of motion vectors bears a rood shape. An improved ARPS algorithm, called ARPS-3 or unequalarm ARPS, is then proposed ...

hazelnut is grown in limited areas of iran with high rainfall and high relative humidity. new cultivars and rootstocks that are tolerant of drought and low humidity are needed to expand hazelnut cultivation. to this end, seeds of 14 local corylus avellana l. genotypes (a1, a2, gerche, gerde eshkevarat, gerde shok, mahalli karaj, nakhon rood, navan1, navan7, navan9, navan10, pashmineh, shirvani ...

We investigate the evolutionary history of the wide-ranging Nearctic treefrog Hyla arenicolor through the integration of extensive range-wide sampling, phylogenetic analyses of multilocus genetic data, and divergence dating. Previous phylogeographic studies of this frog documented a potential signature of introgressive hybridization from an ecologically and morphologically divergent sister spec...