In arid irrigated regions, the proportion of crop production under deficit irrigation with poorer quality water is increasing as demand for fresh water soars and efforts to prevent saline water table development occur. Remote sensing technology to quantify salinity and water stress effects on forage yield can be an important tool to address yield loss potential when deficit irrigating with poor...

The accumulation of high-throughput genomic and proteomic data allows for reconstruction of large and complex metabolic networks. To analyze accumulated data and reconstructed networks, it is critical to identify network patterns and evolutionary relations between metabolic networks; finding similar networks is computationally challenging. Based on gene duplication and function sharing in biolo...

The objectives of this research were to develop and evaluate an approach for object-oriented mapping of banana plantations from SPOT-5 imagery, and to compare these results to banana plantations manually delineated from high spatial resolution airborne imagery. Cultivated areas were first identified through large spatial scale mapping using spectral and elevation data. Within the cultivated are...

Most games being shipped today use some form of high-level abstraction such as a navmesh or waypoint graph for path planning. These structures can generally be represented in a form which is compact enough to meet the tight memory constraints in a game. But, when such a graph grows too large, finding paths can still be a complex task. This challenge was faced in Dragon Age: Origins and solved b...

Social systems encompass individual components that come together and interact. How these interactions and resulting grouplevel phenomena unfold depends on the properties of the individuals, their experience, ambient conditions, as well as the interactions themselves. How evolution shapes social interactions and social behavior, and how social behavior plays out on a mechanistic level are quest...

In this work we present some compact layouts of interconnection networks and their components. The main parameter for optimization is a layout area. Besides, other features like the number of the wire bends and component scalability are also studied and improved, in some cases. We focus on the layouts on a rectilinear grid. More precisely, it is a square grid. We use the Thompson layout model, ...

Generation of the action potentials (AP) necessary to activate skeletal muscle fibers requires that inward membrane currents exceed outward currents and thereby depolarize the fibers to the voltage threshold for AP generation. Excitability therefore depends on both excitatory Na currents and inhibitory K and Cl currents. During intensive exercise, active muscle loses K and extracellular K ([K ]...

In mammals, the bulk of the fatty acids is transported as triacylglycerol in the plasma chylomicrons and very-low-density lipoproteins. Uptake of the fatty acids by the extra-hepatic tissues is effected by the action of lipoprotein lipase (EC 3.1.1.34). We have shown that the rainbow trout (Salmo gairdneri Rich.) possesses a plasma lipoprotein system similar to that of mammals (Skinner & Rogie,...

It is proposed that the reciprocation of interpersonal attraction is a multifaceted process involving affective, cognitive, and behavioral elements, and that reciprocation can be interpreted using interdependence theory. Two studies investigated whether expressed attraction implies benevolent intentions and whether such intentions are differentially critical to reciprocated affective and behavi...