In xeric environments, water-use efficiency (WUE) is likely to be a target of natural selection. Higher WUE is expected to confer a fitness advantage in drought conditions, but this prediction has rarely been tested. To examine the relationships between WUE and fitness, two common garden experiments were conducted. Inbred lines of Impatiens capensis derived from wet and relatively dry sites wer...

By JIAN HUANG Departments of Statistics & Actuarial Science and Biostatistics, University of Iowa, 221 Schaeffer Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, U.S.A. [email protected] PATRICK BREHENY Departments of Statistics and Biostatistics, University of Kentucky, 817 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506, U.S.A. [email protected] SHUANGGE MA School of Public Health, Yale University, New Have...

â  industrial site selection is a complicated decision and is related to various factors, so it is kind of multi-criteria decision analysis which is used for prioritizing different factors and selecting the best alternative among possible alternatives. in fact by scientific site selection, it is possible to minimize negative impacts of industrial construction and going towards sustainable devel...

Background & Aim: German chamomile is one of the most important medicinal plants. So, assessment of genetic diversity and relationship among the traits are very essential in chamomile breeding programs. Determination of the best indirect selection criteria for genetic improvement of essence percent and dry flower yield of German chamomile (Matricaria chamomilla L.) populations...

data grids support access to widely distributed storage for large numbers of users accessing potentially many files. to enhance access time, replication at nearby sites may be used. data replication, a technique much investigated bydata grid researchers in past years creates multiple replicas offile and places them in conventional locations to shorten fileaccess times. one of the problems in da...

this research work attempts to compare the legal and technical criteria of locating household and municipal landfills and discuss them along with legal and technical principles. for this purpose, it was attempted to discuss and compare the related most important national an international standards. due to say, employing the legal standards of locating household and municipal landfills in corpo...

this research work attempts to compare the legal and technical criteria of locating household and municipal landfills and discuss them along with legal and technical principles. for this purpose, it was attempted to discuss and compare the related most important national an international standards. due to say, employing the legal standards of locating household and municipal landfills in corpor...

Environmental planning and management can have positive effects on development of some land uses including industrial areas that have a major effect on economic, social and environmental conditions. Considering the most important problems associated with modeling, the fundamental methods and functions of site-selection laid inside the geographical information system are not accounted for the mu...