studies on manipulating the source-sink relationships during postanthesis in wheat have shown inconsistent results, concluding that wheat yield could be either sink- or source-limited. most studies have reported data of grain mass as an average of all grains preventing the recognition of different sensitivities to the availability of assimilates of grains placed at different positions within th...

in order to investigate of the effects of water stress on seed yield and gas exchange and to evaluate the relationship between source and sink in sunflower azargol variety, a split-plot factorial field experiment was conducted in 2008. in this experiment, water stress (no irrigation from 30 days after sowing till ripening) and irrigation (irrigation at -3 bar soil water potential) were consider...

BM3D is a recent denoising method based on the fact that an image has a locally sparse representation in transform domain. This sparsity is enhanced by grouping similar 2D image patches into 3D groups. In this paper we propose an open-source implementation of the method. We discuss the choice of all parameter methods and confirm their actual optimality. The description of the method is rewritte...

Image feature selection is an important issue for source camera identification. Well-selected features should make camera classifiers accurate, efficient as well as robust. Current source camera identification schemes select image features mainly based on classification accuracy and computational efficiency. In this work, we demonstrate that robustness should also be considered for classifiers ...

An l∞ norm based Source Separation Method has recently been introduced [1, 2], with the corresponding subgradient based algorithm that has a simple update rule. In this article, we propose a moving window modification to this algorithm, where instead of a long fixed window, a shorter length moving window is used. The simulation results for different blind source separation setups suggest that a...

We present a new technique for time series analysis based on dynamic probabilistic networks. In this approach, the observed data are modeled in terms of unobserved, mutually independent factors, as in the recently introduced technique of Independent Factor Analysis (IFA). However, unlike in IFA, the factors are not i.i.d.; each factor has its own temporal statistical characteristics. We derive ...

Databases are a significant source of information in organizations and play a major role in managerial decision-making. This study considers how to process commercial data on customer purchasing timing to provide insights on the rate of new product adoption by the company’s consumers. Specifically, we show how to use the separation-deviation model (SD-model) to rate customers according to their...

studies manipulating the source-sink relationships during post anthesis in wheat have shown inconsistent results, concluding that wheat yield could be either sinkor source-limited. the aim of this study was to determine source limitation degree of 36 iranian wheat cultivars andto investigate their intrinsic compensatory mechanism in response to source size reduction. a split plot design based o...