The ideotype approach has been used in breeding programs at the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) and in China to improve rice yield potential. First-generation new plant type (NPT) lines developed from tropical japonica at IRRI did not yield well because of limited biomass production and poor grain filling. Progress has been made in second-generation NPT lines developed by crossing ...

Dr. Charles W. Nakhleh is a technical staff member in the Safeguards Systems Group at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. His research interests include the applications of environmental monitoring to international safeguards, safeguarding of advanced nuclear fuel cycles, and policy and technology issues related to the Fissile Material Cutoff Treaty and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nu...

The recent debate in Germany about nuclear sharing confirmed the broad support among decision-makers for continued involvement political dimension of NATO’s arrangements, i. e., participation Alliance’s consultative bodies. At same time, German hold divergent views on operational and technical aspects sharing. Russia’s arsenal approximately 2,000 tactical weapons is great concern to many Berlin...

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Despite large numbers of empirical studies are conducted on examiner patent citations, few have scrutinized the cognitive limitations of officials at patent offices in searching for prior art to add citations during patent prosecution. This research takes advantage of the longitudinal gap between International Search Reports (ISRs) required by the Patent Cooperation Treaty (PCT) and subsequent ...

OBJECTIVE Disagreement between results of skin prick test (SPT) and nasal provocation tests (NPT) causes difficulty in differential diagnosis of allergic rhinitis (AR) and nonallergic rhinitis (NAR). We hypothesized this discrepancy could be due to the nonspecific hyper-reactivity (NHR) and localized allergy of the nasal cavity. STUDY DESIGN Prospective pilot. SETTING Academic tertiary rhin...

A long standing open problem in the computational complexity theory is to separate NE from BPP, which is a subclass of NPT(NP) ∩ P/Poly. In this paper, we show that NE 6⊆ NPT(NP ∩ Nonexponentially-Dense-Class), where Nonexponentially-Dense-Class is the class of languages A without exponential density (for each constant c > 0, |A≤n| ≤ 2nc for infinitely many integers n). Our result implies NE 6⊆...

The Nonproliferation Review/Fall 1997 40 Ronald B. Mitchell is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science, University of Oregon. His book Intentional Oil Pollution at Sea: Environmental Policy and Treaty Compliance, published in 1994 by The MIT Press, received the 1995 International Studies Association Sprout Award for best book on international environmental politics. He has...

UNLABELLED Negative pressure therapy (NPT), used on open wounds or postoperative infections, has not been evaluated on closed spinal incisions. This was analyzed after 3 days and 5 days of NPT application using biomechanics and histology in a porcine model. METHODS In 8 mature miniature pigs, 2 end-to-end midline spine incisions were closed in a standard fashion. Negative pressure (Prevena™ ...