We consider a new notion of circuit uniformity based on the concept of rational relations, called Rational-uniformity and denoted Rat. Our goal is to prove it is sharper than DLogTime-uniformity, the notion introduced by Barrington et al. [3], denoted DLT , that is: 1) Rational-uniformity implies DLogTime-uniformity, 2) we have NCRat NCDLT ( NCRat, 3) we have ∀k > 0, NCDLT ⊆ NC Rat , 4) Rationa...

For crop production it is desirable for the mapping between genotype and phenotype to be consistent, such that an optimized genotype produces uniform sets of individual plants. Uniformity is strongly selected in breeding programs, usually automatically, as harvest equipment eliminates severely non-uniform individuals. Uniformity is genetically controlled, is known to be increased by interplant ...

II. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODOLOGY ..........................................430 A. Content Analysis.......................................................................431 B. Primer on the Doctrine of Equivalents.....................................432 C. Database Construction ............................................................435 D. Measurement Criteria..................................