in determining how a plant responds to moisture deficit stress. Moisture deficits can depress cotton (Gossypium hirsutum L.) lint Although there has been considerable research docuyield in all cotton production regions. However, most cotton physiomenting the growth and physiological response of cotton logical drought stress research has been conducted in arid production to moisture deficit stre...

Kernel methods combined with large-margin learning algorithms such as SVMs have been used successfully to tackle a variety of learning tasks since their introduction in the early 90s. However, in the standard framework of these methods, the choice of an appropriate kernel is left to the user and a poor selection may lead to sub-optimal performance. Instead, sample points can be used to select a...

: Basic body-part names (BBPNs) were defined as body-part names in Swadesh basic 200 words. Non-Mayan cognates of Mayan (MY) BBPNs were extensively searched for, by comparing with non-MY vocabulary, including ca.1300 basic words of 82 AN languages listed by Tryon (1985), etc. Thus found cognates (CGs) in non-MY are listed in Table 1, as classified by language groups to which most similar cognat...

In order to determine the response of some tropical grass species to low light situations such as under plantation crops, seasonal cloud cover, etc., six tropical forage grasses were evaluated over a 20 month period on an Oxic Haplustoll in Hawaii (100 m above sea level) under four light regimes (100, 70, 45, and 27/, daylight using polypropylene netting) in the field. The forage grasses evalua...

This paper examines the trends in costs associated with the various low technology shoreline clean-up methods that were used in the response to the SEA EMPRESS incident, by drawing on information gathered during the response and the subsequent claims for compensation from the local government councils involved. Analysis of the costs allowed the level of effort invested in shoreline cleaning to ...

The North American pawpaw [Asimina triloba (L.) Dunal] has great potential as a fruit crop or as a landscape plant. The influence of incident irradiance on pawpaw seedling growth and development in containers was examined in the greenhouse and outdoors. Root spiraling can be a problem for container-grown pawpaw seedlings; therefore, the influence of paint containing cupric hydroxide [Cu(OH)2] a...

Legumes are commonly grown in the tropics under reduced solar radiation due to dense cloud cover and shading from plantation or tall intercrops. This paper examines the growth and N2 fixation of several grain legumes common to the tropics on an Oxic Haplustoll in Hawaii. Plantings were made in April (warm season) and November (cool season) of soybean (Glycine max L. Merr.) ‘Kahala’; Cowpea (Vig...

A systematic analysis is performed on the e ectiveness of removing degrees of freedom from hydrogen atoms and/or increasing hydrogen masses to increase the e ciency of molecular dynamics simulations of hydrogen-rich systems such as proteins in water. In proteins, high-frequency bond-angle vibrations involving hydrogen atoms limit the time step to 3 fs, which is already a factor of 1.5 beyond th...

OF THE DISSERTATION Jacobi Forms over Number Fields by Howard Skogman Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics University of California San Diego, 1999 Professor Harold Stark, Chair We de ne Jacobi Forms over an algebraic number eld K and construct examples by rst embedding the group and the space into the symplectic group and the symplectic upper half space respectively. We then create symplectic m...