abstract-manual harvesting of saffron as a laborious and exhausting job; it not only raises production costs, but also reduces the quality due to contaminations. saffron quality could be enhanced if automated harvesting is substituted. as the main step towards designing a saffron harvester robot, an appropriate algorithm was developed in this study based on image processing techniques to recogn...

We prove that the supercritical one-dimensional contact process survives in certain wedge-like space-time regions, and that when it survives it couples with the unrestricted contact process started from its upper invariant measure. As an application we show that a type of weak coexistence is possible in the nearest-neighbor “grass-bushes-trees” successional model introduced in [5].

Flowers, as repeated modules on a plant, may show population dynamics that correspond to ecological models for population growth. We hypothesized that rate of flower production (birth rate), number of open flowers per day (population size) and flower duration (longevity) should be related to plant resource status. With dioecious species, resource demands of male or female function would contrib...

“Jack Edmonds has been one of the creators of the field of combinatorial optimization and polyhedral combinatorics. His 1965 paper ‘Paths, Trees, and Flowers’ [1] was one of the first papers to suggest the possibility of establishing a mathematical theory of efficient combinatorial algorithms . . . ” [from the award citation of the 1985 John von Neumann Theory Prize, awarded annually since 1975...

Along with traditional and popular berry crops in private gardens, there are few common types decorative forms. The purpose of the research was to expand range ornamental shrubs landscaping large Metropolitan areas popularize knowledge about new or little-known bushes. As a result studies on value adaptation coefficient, studied shrub species were divided into three groups according degree pros...

The sequential separation of male and female function in flowers of dichogamous species allows for the evolution of differing morphologies that maximize fitness through seed siring and seed set. We examined staminate- and pistillate-phase flowers of protandrous Saponaria officinalis for dimorphism in floral traits and their effects on pollinator attraction and seed set. Pistillate-phase flowers...