water resources are limited in most parts of the country, including isfahan,where cotton is cultivated but it’s planting time coincides with the sensitive stage of cereal grain growth. therefore, developing and adopting techniques that could maximize use of the existing resources is needed. to study the effect of basin and furrow irrigation methods on yield and some yield components of cotton  ...

Cotton is a major cash crop classified as moderately tolerant to salt stress (threshold ECe = 7.7 dS m-1). In the present study, set of 21 homozygous advanced breeding lines cotton (Gossypium herbaceum L.), including one variety G Cot 23 was evaluated over three years identify stable high yielding genotypes under stress. Weighted Average Absolute Scores BLUPs (WAASB) stability index, which base...

The objective of this paper is to study shedding patterns of cows infected with Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP). While multiple single farm studies of MAP dynamics were reported, there is not large scale meta-analysis of both natural and experimental infections. Large difference in shedding patterns between experimentally and naturally infected cows were observed. Experimental...

The tarnished plant bug (TPB), Lygus lineolaris (Palisot de Beauvois), has become known as a midto late-season pest in addition to an early-season pest in recent years with the addition of Bt cotton, completion of the Boll Weevil Eradication Program, and use of lepidopteran-specific insecticides. The expanded prominence of TPB requires continued applied research in the form of insecticide effic...

In recent years several catastrophic power systems blackouts have occurred worldwide. Various reasons have been declared for these failures. Economical limitations due to power system restructuring restrictions, inadvertent operation of protective relays and inefficient design of conventional load shedding schemes are of the most important reasons causing these blackouts. In fact, due to both e...

fits and costs. This shortcoming may be addressed The purpose of this study was to determine the by directly estimating Mississippi Delta producers' economic risk efficiency of implementing a boll benefits and costs of a BWE program. However, weevil (Anthonomus grandis [Boheman]) eradicaonly pest control costs prior to BWE program adoption (BWE) program in cotton (Gossypium hirsutum tion are av...

As a perspective to ensure the power system stability and to avoid the vulnerability leading to the blackouts, several strategies are adopted. In order to avoid the voltage collapse, load shedding schemes represent a suitable action to maintain the power system service quality and to control its vulnerability. In this paper, we propose a new approach of a load shedding strategy based on fuzzy c...

Clouds establish a new division of responsibilities between platform operators and users than have traditionally existed in computing infrastructure. In private clouds, where all participants belong to the same organization, this creates new barriers to effective communication and resource usage. In this paper, we present poncho, a tool that implements APIs that enable communication between clo...