The wood mechanical properties of progeny from twelve open-pollinated parent trees were examined. Six families were from parents which had high wood specific gravity and six were from parents which had low wood specific gravity. Thirty-two-year-old trees, that had been planted at Many, Louisiana, were sampled and juvenile and mature wood test specimens were prepared. Maximum crushing strength, ...

Abstract: Let Mn be the maximum of n zero-mean gaussian variables X1, .., Xn with covariance matrix of minimum eigenvalue λ and maximum eigenvalue Λ. Then, for n ≥ 70, Pr{Mn ≥ λ (2 logn− 2.5− log(2 logn− 2.5)) 1 2 − .68Λ} ≥ 1 2 . Bounds are also given for tail probabilities other than 1 2 . Upper bounds are given for tail probabilities of the maximum of dependent identically distributed variabl...

In this paper, we show that the covariance-eigenvalue approach converges much faster than using cumulative distribution function (CDF) for determining diversity gain from channel measurements in reverberation chamber. The covariance-eigenvalue approach can be used for arbitrary multi-port antennas, but it is limited to Maximum Ratio Combining (MRC). key words: MRC, diversity gain, eigenvalue, r...