Selecting parental materials for hybridization by measuring genetic diversity

Selecting parental materials for hybridization by discriminant function

Selecting Materials for Radiation Balanced Lasers

Well-characterized solid-state laser materials are evaluated for performance in radiation balanced laser systems. New figures-of-merit are developed and applied to ytterbium doped materials. Superior performance is predicted for high cross section tungstate materials. Photothermal deflection experiments on samples of Yb doped KGd(WO4)2 confirm anti-Stokes fluorescence cooling. Observations of o...

Genetic diversity of Iranian melon cultigens revealed by AFLP markers

Iran is a part of the secondary centre of origin of melons, and therefore, there is a wealth of genetic variation of these species in this country. The Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) marker was applied to investigate the genetic variations among five major Iranian melon cultigens (Cucumis melo) and ‘Ananasi’ as a general well-known cultivar. Ten primer pairs were used on 90 indiv...

Explorer Selecting Heterogeneous Cores for Diversity

Selecting effective expansion terms for diversity

Query expansion has been successfully applied in Information Retrieval, mostly for adhoc search tasks. On the other hand, query expansion can also fail, particularly in light of query ambiguity. For an ambiguous query, an effective strategy is to diversify the search results, in the hope of retrieving at least one relevant result for each of the possible information needs underlying the query. ...

Similarities and Differences: A Case Study in Measuring Diversity and Selecting Peers in Higher Education

Diversity is a policy objective that most systems of higher education pursue. At the same time those systems are also concerned about equity of access and the quality of educational opportunity. Individual institutions, for a variety of reasons ranging from accountability to the allocation of scarce resources, attempt to compare or “benchmark” themselves against other institutions. Both activit...