The experiment was conducted at the Agronomy field of Sher-e-Bangla Agricultural University, Dhaka, Bangladesh during August, 2008 to January 2009 to find out the optimum plant spacing and number of seedling per hill in relation to tillering and dry matter accumulation of transplanted rice plant. The experiment was carried out with three plant spacings (S =15 cm × 20 cm, S = 20 cm × 20 cm and S...

BACKGROUND Determining the age-specific hospitalization burden associated with seasonal influenza and the (H1N1) 2009 pandemic is important for the development of effective vaccine strategies and clinical management. The aim of this study was to investigate age-specific differences in hospitalization rates during the pandemic and seasonal periods. METHODS Using the Taiwan National Health Insu...

Our first objective was to determine the effects of explosive amount and distance of the explosive to the meat surface in the Hydrodyne process on broiler breast tenderness. Early deboned (EB) breasts were removed immediately after initial chill (45 min postmortem), stored for 24 h (4 C), and subjected to one of four Hydrodyne treatments (200 g at 20 cm, 350 g at 23 cm, 275 g at 20 cm, or 350 g...

Abstract The interface between polymer matrices and nanofillers is critical for efficient interaction to achieve the desired final properties. In this work, block copolymers were utilized control optimum interfacial interaction. Specifically, we studied compatibilizing effects of styrene-ethylene/butadiene-styrene (SEBS) styrene-ethylene/propylene (SEP) on morphology, conductivity, rheological ...

Biomass is the component of living organism and mostly obtained from plants, animals, insects and the residue of all the mentioned organisms. Biomass is the key source of energy present in the form of organic matter. The study aimed to find out biomass and its variation in each component of Betula utilis D. Don (Birch Tree) with varying diameter at Kalam forest division Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

Lack of suitable varieties and genotypes of black gram with adaptation to local conditions is among the factors affecting its production. Efforts to genetically improve the crop mostly involve identifying important morphological descriptors followed by development of advanced breeding lines for locale-specific cultivars. The present day available black gram varieties have not been properly char...

We have carried out an extensive search for gamma-ray lines in the first year of public data from the Spectrometer (SPI) on the INTEGRAL mission. INTEGRAL has spent a large fraction of its observing time in the Galactic Plane with particular concentration in the Galactic Center (GC) region (∼ 3 Msec in the first year). Hence the most sensitive search regions are in the Galactic Plane and Center...

This correspondence studies robustness properties of the constant modulus (CM) criterion and the constant modulus algorithm (CMA) to the suboptimal but practical situation where the number of fractionally spaced equalizer coefficients is less than what is needed to remove all intersymbol interference (ISI). Hence, there necessarily exists an error in the equalized signal. Relationships between ...