Conservation of an imperiled plant often requires an understanding of its reproductive ecology. Scrub plum (Prunus geniculata) is an endangered Florida shrub endemic to pyrogenic xeric uplands. Although plants are long-lived and may flower profusely, particularly after burning, fruit yield is sparse and seedlings are rare. We investigated potential causes of seedling rarity in scrub plum by stu...

Three key design features distinguish PLUM from other approaches: statistical language modeling, learning algorithms and partial understanding. The first key feature is the use of statistical modeling to guide processing. For the version of PLUM used in MUC-5, part of speech information was determined by using well-known Markov modeling techniques embodied in BBN's part-of-speech tagger POST [5...

To my parents, my brother, and Wei-yu. iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would like to thank a number of individuals for their support and assistance during my study at Georgia Tech. Foremost, I want to express my special gratitude to my advisor, Dr. Anthony Hayter, for his inspiration, guidance, and encouragement. He helps me a lot through the whole Ph.D. study. I am grateful to Dr. Alexander Shapiro for...

Producing yieldy and good quality production in orchards depends on the correct fertilization program. This study was carried out Adıyaman University between April 2019 September order to reveal nutritional status soil-plant relations without soil tillage fertilization. Since preparation of program leaf analysis; samples were taken revealed. Leaf April, May, June, July, August 2019, February 20...

Abstract. Fruit and berry raw materials are a valuable source of nutrients antioxidants in the diet population Sverdlovsk region [2]. The aim study is to determine total antioxidant activity fruit Ussury plum thorn growing territory region. Generally accepted standard physic chemical research methods were used. material for was fruits plum, represented by following varieties: Pionerka, Dostoyna...

The aim of the work is to study copper content in food for nutritional support and correction deficiency children from high-risk group. method neutron activation analysis was used determine products plant animal origin. turned out be high (from 50 100 μg / g) - milled wheat bread, black raisins, moderate concentration 10 – sumalak , as well dried apricots, walnuts, peanuts, pears, almonds, apri...

s previous work leading hiring discrimination investigations in the New York Attorney General's Civil Rights Bureau. The views expressed in this Article are the author's alone and do not reflect the views of the Bureau or the office. The author is grateful to Susan Plum and the Skadden Foundation for their unflagging support, to Maurice Emsellem, Noah Zatz, and Sharon Deitrich for helpful conve...