to investigate the root anatomy and hydraulic conductivity of wheat cultivars, including shiraz, bahar, pishtaz, sistan, and yavaros, a series of controlled environment (growth chamber) experiments were hydroponically conducted at university college of dublin (ucd), ireland in 2010. bahar, pishtaz and sistan cultivars were employed as tolerant to drought and shiraz and yavaros as sensitive. twe...

Naphtho[2,1-b]thiophene (NTH) is an asymmetric structural isomer of dibenzothiophene (DBT), and in addition to DBT derivatives, NTH derivatives can also be detected in diesel oil following hydrodesulfurization treatment. Rhodococcus sp. strain WU-K2R was newly isolated from soil for its ability to grow in a medium with NTH as the sole source of sulfur, and growing cells of WU-K2R degraded 0.27 ...

This paper defines a rate maximization power allocation game in a frequency selective Gaussian interference channel, af ter assuming a suboptimal but pragmatic multi-user coding scheme. We show that the Nash equilibrium always exists in this game. We consider a distributed power allocation scheme [l, Section IV.], and provide a sufficient condition for the convergence of the distributed algorit...

We use Palm measures, along with a simple approximation technique to derive new explicit expressions for all of the transient moments of the workload process of an M/G/1 queue. These expressions can also be used to derive a closed-form expression for the nth moment of the stationary workload, which solves the well-known Takács recursion that generates the waiting time moments of an M/G/1 queue ...

Consider a hermitian positive-definite linear functional F, and assume we have m distinct nodes fixed in advance anywhere on the real line. In this paper we then study the existence and construction of nth rational Gauss-Radau (m = 1) and Gauss-Lobatto (m = 2) quadrature formulas that approximate F{f}. These are quadrature formulas with n positive weights and with the n−m remaining nodes real a...

The current emphasis on increasing aeronautical efficiency is leading the way to a new class of lighter more flexible airplane materials and structures, which unfortunately can result in aeroelastic instabilities. To effectively control the wings deformation and shape, appropriate modeling is necessary. Wings are often modeled as cantilever beams using finite element analysis. The drawback of t...

This study explored the consumers' and vendors' perceptions about Mondia whitei roots, in Kampala city, Uganda; determined the marketing margins and the market flow of the roots in the city; documented demand and supply opportunities as well as challenges to marketing of the roots by the vendors. Seventy vendors and 70 consumers of the roots were administered with semi-structured questionnaires...