This paper’s aim was to investigate the influence of variety and climatic year on vegetation phenophases in blueberries grown southwest Romania, Banat region. study carried out during growing season 2020–2022 a blueberry plantation, for ‘Duke’, ‘Hannah’s Choice’ ‘Elliott’ varieties. In study, phenological traits were recorded using BBCH scale observation phenotypic data as Julian days. Thus, it...

The Z speciication language can be used to capture liveness properties of state transition systems such as those used to specify communications protocols. The speciication of such systems involve temporal concepts such as \eventually" and \always". In this paper we extend standard Z to include the temporal logic operators so as to provide a powerful notation for discussing the liveness of state...

In this paper, I analyze the changes affecting modern economics textbooks such as Samuelson’s Economics, within the broader context of the American visual culture as inherited from the interwar period. The new tools and Medias depicting and disseminating social information to a mass audience were heavily used as means of education during wartime. When economic departments all over the US were c...

Research use of sensitive information – personally identifiable information (PII), protected health information (PHI), commercial or proprietary data, and the like – is increasing as researchers’ skill with “big data” matures. Duke University’s Protected Network is an environment with technical controls in place that provide research groups with essential pieces of security measures needed for ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to test the hypothesis that the Duke treadmill score works less well for risk stratification in patients age 75 years or above. BACKGROUND Although the Duke treadmill score is generally effective for risk stratification, its prognostic value in the elderly may be limited because they have a higher prevalence of coronary artery disease (CAD), more severe ...

INTRODUCTION The term "predisposing heart condition" is used as an indication of antimicrobial prophylaxis to prevent infective endocarditis (IE) and as a criterion for diagnosing IE according to modified Duke criteria. The purpose of this survey was to elaborate clinician's knowledge and opinion on relevant heart conditions as a Duke minor criterion for the diagnosis of IE. METHODS A questio...

6 Departments of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, 1 Medicine, 2 and Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, 3 and Duke University Eye Center, 4 8 Duke University Medical Center, Durham, North Carolina 27710 Abstract: 50 words 10 Text: 996 words *Correspondence to either: 12 Dr. Afshari at Department of Ophthalmology Wadsworth Bldg, Box 3802, Erwin Road 14 Duke University Eye Center, Durham, NC 277...