The metabolic and growth changes associated with pregnancy have stimulated interest in the assay of human growth hormone during pregnancy. Until recently no suitable method for the assay of this hormone in the circulation of normal subjects has been available. Methods, reported to be specific for human growth hormone and sensitive enough to give reliable estimates of the concentration of this h...

The Spanning Tree Protocol routes traffic on shortest path trees. If some edges fail, the traffic has to be rerouted consequently, setting up alternative trees. In this paper we design efficient algorithms to compute polynomial-size integer weights so as to enforce the following stability property: if q = O(1) edges fail, traffic demands that are not affected by the failures are not redirected....

Under the coalescent model for population divergence, lineage sorting can cause considerable variability in gene trees generated from any given species tree. In this paper, we derive a method for computing the distribution of gene tree topologies given a bifurcating species tree for trees with an arbitrary number of taxa in the case that there is one gene sampled per species. Applications for g...

high-density planting system is one of the effective methods for improving production and profitability of tree orchards. in this research, the effects of four planting densities (1904, 2666, 3137 and 4800 tree/ha) on annual shoot growth, tree yield, physicochemical properties of fruit and leaf mineral contents of apple (malus domestica borkh cv ‘granny smith’treegrafted on m26 clonal rootstock...

this study aims at assessing the impact of land use change (from forest areas to forest parks) on some silvicultural characteristics of stands under recreational land use in boloran natural forest park, kuhdasht. for this purpose, three zones including non-recreation, extensive recreation and intensive recreation regions were chosen. in each zone 30 sample plots in a systematic random design (1...