Three field trials were conducted to determine response of Meloidogyne javanica to tomato cultivars containing the Mi gene for resistance in sequential tests. Trials were conducted in spring and fall 1997 and spring 1998 on the same site. Tomatoes were grown on polyethylene mulch at a site initially treated with methyl bromide and then infested with M. javanica via drip tubing. Cultivars with t...

Publicado no ano de 2011, contendo 263 páginas, o livro Pesquisa Qualitativa: estudando como as coisas funcionam, Robert Edward Stake apresenta em uma descrição dialógica partes constituintes um projeto pesquisa, caracterizando os elementos desde planejamento à execução da pesquisa qualitativa. O processo elaboração bem cada etapa desenvolvimento mesma requer alguns cuidados fundamentais quais ...

This paper studies the concentration of block production in selected Proof-of-Stake (PoS) blockchains and finds evidence consistent with participants entering leaving consensus process, thereby changing level, but not disproportionate compounding wealth for large stakes.

P Zatko, better known in the security community as Mudge, was one of the leaders of the L0pht hacker collective, which contributed significantly to the disclosure of serious Internet vulnerabilities and eventually became the security consultancy @stake. He has worked as a division scientist at BBN Technologies, a project manager for DARPA, and a researcher at Google. He’s currently working on a...

Bitcoin and its underlying blockchain mechanism have been attracting much attention. One of their core innovations, Proof-of-Work (PoW), is notoriously inefficient which potentially motivates a centralization of computing power, defeating the original goal of decentralization. Proof-of-Stake (PoS) is later proposed to replace PoW. However, both PoW and PoS have different inherent advantages and...

To properly integrate information & communication technologies (ICTs) in higher educational institutes (HEIs) of Pakistan demands factors which relate with their usage, acceptance, adoption, and diffusion need be analyzed through some appropriate statistical tests before their implementation at ground level. This study measures critical factors such as ZPD (zone of proximal development) gap, di...

Background: High stake assessments are an important component in all stages of healthcare education that validate learners’ clinical performance but may also inform and promote the learning process. Informatics has been a driver to transform paper examinations to digital examinations (e-examinations) but knowledge about their efficient and effective application in the context of healthcare asse...