Year 2004 Barley Crop Assessment - Brewery Section.

Barley genetic variation: implications for crop improvement.

Genetic variation is crucial for successful barley improvement. Genomic technologies are improving dramatically and are providing access to the genetic diversity within this important crop species. Diverse collections of barley germplasm are being assembled and mined via genome-wide association studies and the identified variation can be linked to the barley sequence assembly. Introgression of ...

Time-Series–Cross-Section Issues: Dynamics, 2004∗

This paper deals with a variety of dynamic issues in the analysis of time-series– cross-section (TSCS) data raised by recent papers; it also more briefly treats some cross-sectional issues. Monte Carlo analysis shows that for typical TSCS data that fixed effects with a lagged dependent variable performs about as well as the much more complicated Kiviet estimator, and better than the AndersonHsi...

Derivative Securities – Section 4 – Fall 2004

Lognormal price dynamics and passage to the continuum limit. After a brief recap of our pricing formula, this section introduces the lognormal model of stock price dynamics, and explains how it can be approximated using binomial trees. Then we use these binomial trees to price contingent claims. The Black-Scholes analysis is obtained in the limit δt → 0. As usual, Baxter–Rennie captures the cen...

Crop Nitrogen Assessment

Assessment of nitrogen content from crop leaves has been of interest worldwide to help growers adjust N fertilizer rates to meet the demands of the crop. A multi-spectral imaging system was developed for in-field real-time assessment of plant nitrogen stress in corn (Zea mays L.) crops indicated by plant reflectance and measured using a vision-based multi-spectral imaging sensor (MSIS). The obj...

Winter Barley Seeding Rate , Cover Crop and Variety Trial