Abstract Microclimatic conditions affect seeds' survival, dormancy, and germination, which are determinants in vegetation succession recovery. The semiarid coastal scrublands of Yucatan, Mexico very important because the environmental services they provide thus, studies needed disturbed sites relation to seed viability microclimate. In this study, we characterized microclimate bank under Pithec...

Experiments in which a single target pattern is discriminated from multiple background distractors show that certain shaded, two-dimensional (2-D) stimuli consistent with a top-lit, polyhedral interpretation can be processed fast (< 80 msec) and in parallel. Unshaded line drawings of the same shapes, however, are processed serially. Strong pop-out asymmetries and control experiments involving s...

Figure 1: (a) Our method with 6.7M triangles Rungholt scene. 55K shaded samples. Inset picture was taken through the lens of the Oculus Rift HMD. (b) Naı̈ve ray tracing. 1M shaded samples. Visual quality in our method is equivalent to the one produced by the naı̈ve method when seen through the HMD. (c) Our foveated sampling pattern and k-NN filtering method. Each cell corresponds to a sampling po...

supercells (sigtor), F0-F1 tornadic supercells (weaktor), nontornadic superells (nontor), and a sample of non-supercell discrete storms (number of cases from T02 in parentheses). The shaded boxes represent the middle 50% of the distributions (“box”), and the tops and bottoms of the bars are the 10 and 90 percentiles, respectively (“whiskers”). The horizontal line through each shaded box is the ...

An interactive system for designing curved surfaces is proposed which is based on direct manipulation of a single-view shaded image of this surface. Apart from functions like carving in the surface or adding to it, and local smoothing, sharpening or shifting of selected surface regions, the system supports painting local gradient distributions. An iterative algorithm enforces conservativity of ...

We develop and compare two theories of professional forecasters’ strategic behavior. The first theory, reputational cheap talk, posits that forecasters aim at convincing the market that they are well informed. The market evaluates their forecasting talent on the basis of the forecasts and the realized state. If the market expects the forecasters to report their posterior expectations honestly, ...

Partial shading has a negative impact on the performance parameters of Solar Photovoltaic (PV) array, because it shades certain panels while leaving others un-shaded. This article focuses modeling, comparing and assessment 6×6, 6×5 5×6 size shadowed solar PV arrays under different partial cases in MATLAB/ Simulink software. For this purpose, simulation series-parallel (SP), Total-Cross-Tied (TC...

Vasa, a DEAD box mRNA helicase similar to eIF4A, is involved in pole plasm assembly in the Drosophila oocyte and appears to regulate translation of oskar and nanos mRNAs. However, several vasa alleles exhibit a wide range of early oogenesis phenotypes. Here we report a detailed analysis of Vasa function during early oogenesis using novel as well as previously identified hypomorphic vasa alleles...