Agriculture of the inland arid region in Xinjiang depends on irrigation, which forms oasis of Northwest China. The production and water use of wheat, a dominant crop there, is significantly affected by undergoing climate variability and change. The objective of this study is to quantify inter-annual variability of wheat yield and water use from 1955 to 2006. The farming systems model APSIM (Agr...

Oporto and the Douro: views monuments, cujo texto e arranjo gráfico ficaram a cargo de Frederic P. Marjay, foi uma obra editada em 1955 pela livraria Bertrand, Lisboa, Portugal. Ocupa um lugar despercebido entre as várias publicações propaganda turística portuguesa que veiculavam ideia país pitoresco progressista, começou ser gizado Política do Espírito por volta 1932, mas com raízes nos último...

Some rats [sign-trackers (STs)] are especially prone to attribute incentive salience to reward cues, relative to others [goal-trackers (GTs)]. Thus, reward cues are more likely to promote maladaptive reward-seeking behavior in STs than GTs. Here, we asked whether STs and GTs differ on another trait that can contribute to poor restraint over behavior evoked by reward cues. We report that, relati...

Since their recent introduction into clinical practice, chlorpromazine and reserpine have been widely used in the treatment of the schizophrenias. Studies of schizophrenic patients treated with chlorpromazine have been published by Vaughan, Leiberman, and Cook (1955), Kinross-Wright (1955), Goldman (1955), Charatan (1954), Labhardt (1954) and Anton-Stephens (1954); treatment with reserpine has ...

Historically, Markovian predictors have been very successful in predicting branch outcomes. In this work we propose a hybrid scheme that employs two Prediction by Partial Matching (PPM) Markovian predictors, one that predicts based on local branch histories and one based on global branch histories. The two independent predictions are combined using a neural network. On the CBP-2 traces the prop...

Carl Richard Moore studied sex hormones [3] in animals in the US from 1916 until his death in 1955. Moore focused on the role of hormones [4] on sex differentiation [5] in animals, the optimal conditions under which males produce sperm [6], and the effects of vasectomy or testicular implants on male sex hormone [7] production. Moore's experiments to create hermaphrodites in the laboratory contr...