to evaluate the effect of different levels of nitrogen fertilizer on growth indices and competitive ability of canola (brassica napus l.) against wild mustard (sinapis arvensis l.), a split plot trial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications, was carried out at agricultural faculty of bu-ali sina university, during 2008-2009. experimental factors were amounts of nitro...

In a signaling game between a receiver and senders, prejudice occurs if senders are pre-judged based on an index such as race without reference to their qualifying signals. This paper investigates what makes the receiver ignore senders’ informative signals in favor of the uninformative index. Prejudice arises when competition between senders erodes their signaling incentive and reduces the qual...

This is the first report on a new approach to text compression. It consists of representing the text file with compressed inverted file index in conjunction with very compact lexicon, where lexicon includes every word in the text. The index is compressed using standard index compression techniques, and lexicon is compressed by original dictionary compression method that gives better compression...

A multitrait selection index (I T ) for Zimbabwean Jersey cattle was constructed. The breeding objective was defined in terms of production and functionality traits. The production component of the index included milk yield (M), butterfat yield (F), protein yield (P), butterfat percent (F%), and protein percent (P%), while the functional component included the somatic cell count (SCC). The inde...

A measure of entrepreneur success is important to identify current and future successful ventures, to further our understanding of the entrepreneurial process and to guide public policies to improve the success rate of start-ups. In this paper we propose an index of entrepreneur success that accommodates multiple inputs and outputs, that is predicated on inputs and that mitigates the impact of ...

We present a new index for approximate string matching. The index collects text q-samples, that is, disjoint text substrings of length q, at fixed intervals and stores their positions. At search time, part of the text is filtered out by noticing that any occurrence of the pattern must be reflected in the presence of some text q-samples that match approximately inside the pattern. Hence the inde...

Glaucoma is one of the most common causes for blindness worldwide. Screening is adequate to detect glaucoma at an early stage. Although it is supported by computer assisted tools no further information from former clinical studies is incorporated. We devised a novel visualization tool that presents additional comparative image data for the diagnosis process. Automated computation of a glaucoma ...