1 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, National Horticultural Research Center, P. O. Box 01000 220, Thika. 2 Department of Botany, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 3 Department of Horticulture, Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology, P. O. Box 00200-62000, Nairobi. 4 Kenya Agricultural Research Institute, Biotechnology Cen...

At the last Pig Genetics Workshop two papers described aspects of the lost potential in pig production at the commercial level. Black (2000) estimated that slower growth, reduced efficiency of feed use and fatter carcases decreased the profitability of pig enterprises by as much as 25%. Walters (2000) estimated that successful progress had been achieved in backfat reduction but that there were ...

© The Canadian Journal of UrologyTM; 19(5); October 2012 Address correspondence to Dr. Ithaar H. Derweesh, Moores UCSD Cancer Center, 3855 Health Sciences Drive, Mail Code: 0987, La Jolla, CA 92093 USA Quality improvement of reporting standards for ablative studies: where do we stand? Ithaar H. Derweesh, MD Division of Urology/Department of Surgery, University of California San Diego School of ...

trol loops to compensate backup roll eccentricity and harmonic hardness variation allows a significant improvement in strip thickness performance. These measures were successfully implemented as an extension to an exist ing two-stand aluminium cold rolling mill. An essential quality characteristic in the cold rolling sector is the minimum thickness deviation that can be achieved at final gauge,...

We investigate the nature of charge transport in deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) using self-assembled layers of DNA in large-area molecular junctions. A protocol was developed that yields dense monolayers where the DNA molecules are not standing upright, but are lying flat on the substrate. As a result the charge transport is measured not along the DNA molecules but in the transverse direction, acr...

As a feasible model for signing quantum messages, some cryptanalysis and improvement of arbitrated quantum signature (AQS) have received a great deal of attentions in recent years. However, in this paper we find the previous improvement is not suitable implemented in some typical AQS protocols in the sense that the receiver, Bob, can forge a valid signature under known message attack. We descri...

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Humans are capable of pointing to a target with accuracy. However, when vision is distorted through a visual rotation or mirror-reversed vision, the performance is initially degraded and thereafter improves with practice. There are suggestions this gradual improvement results from a sensorimotor recalibration involving initial gating of the somatosensory information from the pointing hand. In t...

Stand Your Ground Laws and Homicides The controversies surrounding Stand Your Ground laws have recently captured the nation’s attention. Since 2005, eighteen states have passed laws extending the right to self-defense with no duty to retreat to any place a person has a legal right to be, and several additional states are debating the adoption of similar legislation. Despite the implications tha...