We investigated the effects of organic and conventional pest and fertility management on weed cover and the seed bank community in an organic rotation. The study was conducted during the 4th and 5th years of an organic rotation on part of a long term organic-conventional comparison trial. Results showed that although crop type (potato vs. cabbage) in a single year significantly affected wee...

Assuming a good embedding and additive noise, the traditional approach to time-series embedding prediction has been to predict pointwise by (usually linear) regression of the k-nearest neighbors; no good mathematics has been previously developed to appropriately select the model (where to truncate Taylor’s series) to balance the conflict between noise fluctuations of a small k, and large k data...

major pungent component in fruits of CZTpsium, has been reported to increase the catecholamine secretioni) and energy expenditure2) and suppress body fat accumulation by long-term treatment3} in experimental animal studies. Although hot peppers and capsaicin may be used in a diet therapy for obesity, their usage as a food additive or a drug is limited by its strong pungency and nociceptive acti...

Development of scatterometer designs and applications requires extensive data simulation. The advancing capabilities of instruments motivates our proposal for an improved simulation model for noisy scatterometer measurements. Previous simulation models do not separately account for the two forms of random variation—signal fading and additive noise—which affect scatterometer measurements. The pr...

With worldwide petroleum resources dwindling, it is urgent to look for renewable fuels. One of major potential products from plant biomass is γ-valerolactone (GVL), which is renewable, safe to store and can be used as a liquid fuel, food additive, green solvent and an intermediate in the synthesis of many value-added chemicals. The synthesis of GVL is commonly accomplished by hydrogenation of l...

Abstract—Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplex (OFDM) systems are very sensitive to frequency offset caused by tuning oscillator instabilities and Doppler shifts induced by the channel. The Schmidl and Cox Algorithm (SCA) is quite robust in estimating the frequency offset for systems with large OFDM symbol lengths. It uses two OFDM symbols for training with the first one having two identical ...

major pungent component in fruits of CZTpsium, has been reported to increase the catecholamine secretioni) and energy expenditure2) and suppress body fat accumulation by long-term treatment3} in experimental animal studies. Although hot peppers and capsaicin may be used in a diet therapy for obesity, their usage as a food additive or a drug is limited by its strong pungency and nociceptive acti...

In this paper, the effect of the structural properties and morphology of iron oxide product, have been studied in co-precipitation and hydrothermal methods. Also, the effect of adding CCl4 impurities and final annealing of the materials is taken into account. The more homogeneous particle size in hydrothermal method has been explained by the effect of adding CCl4 as impurities to prevent the co...

PURPOSE This study was conducted in order to validate the radiosensitization effect of valproic acid, a biologically available histone deacetylase inhibitor, for fractionated radiation. MATERIALS AND METHODS Radiosensitization effect of valproic acid was tested for the A549 cell line and U87MG cell line in vitro. Fractionated irradiation of 12 Gy in four fractions was administered on D2-5 wit...