We explore planet formation in the Quark Nova scenario. If a millisecond pulsar explodes as a Quark Nova, a protoplanetary disk can be formed out of the metal rich fall-back material. The propeller mechanism transfers angular momentum from the born quark star to the disk that will go through viscous evolution with later plausible grain condensation and planet formation. As a result, earth-size ...

There is an increasing market for locally grown malting barley (Hordeum vulgare L.) in the Northeast US. Malting must meet certain quality standards acceptability brewing market. Up-to-date recommendations are needed regionally adaptation to ongoing climate change. A two-year field experiment was conducted assess interactive influence of three dates planting (5 September, 15 and 25 September), ...

Granular materials composed of a mixture of grain sizes are notoriously prone to segregation during shaking or transport. In this paper, a binary mixture theory is used to formulate a model for kinetic sieving of large and small particles in thin, rapidly flowing avalanches, which occur in many industrial and geophysical free-surface flows. The model is based on a simple percolation idea, in wh...

This paper introduces a generalization of programming data types called Context Qualified Types (or CQ Types for short). CQ Types are a superset of programming language data types. They incorporate design features or contexts that fall outside of the programming data type domain (e.g., a planned program scope). CQ Types are functionally related to other CQ Types (and eventually to conventional ...

Basic Assumptions. Conformity, as I use it here, is the situation when people are trying to act or look like one another. One sees this conformity everyday, in many areas of social life -in fashions, the names we give our children, the sports we play, the causes we support, and so on. Of course, there are always individuals who go against the grain and adopt less conformist or non-conforming be...

Aluminium phosphide (AlP) a grain fumigant is the leading cause of intentional poisoning in North India. The mechanisms involved in toxicity are not known and there is no antidote till date. The present study was carried out to investigate the oxygen free radical generation, methemoglobinemia and effect of methylene blue treatment on survival time in rat model of AlP poisoning. AlP (50 mg/kg, i...

John M. Marsh (406) 994-5621 [email protected] Increases in the demand for cornbased ethanol have contributed to substantially higher corn prices. For example, Central Illinois corn prices increased from $1.84/bushel in the fourth quarter of 2005 to $3.28/bushel in the fourth quarter of 2006, an increase of 78.3 percent (LMIC, 2006). Much of the increase in corn prices occurred during the fall...

Rice panicle architecture is a key target of selection when breeding for yield and grain quality. However, panicle phenotypes are difficult to measure and susceptible to confounding during genetic mapping due to correlation with flowering and subpopulation structure. Here we quantify 49 panicle phenotypes in 242 tropical rice accessions with the imaging platform PANorama. Using flowering as a c...

Using grain and farmland price data, this article estimates the interest rate and land rent in five provinces of Qing China to find that they tended to fall in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Given that population growth outstripped both acreage expansion and capital accumulation, the weakening in the rental income for capital and land leads one to predict that Chinese workers also suf...

The relations among the resistivity, elastic-wave velocity, porosity, and permeability in Fontainebleau sandstone samples from the Ile de France region, around Paris, France were experimentally revisited. These samples followed a permeability-porosity relation given by Kozeny-Carman’s equation. For the resistivity measurements, the samples were partially saturated with brine. Archie’s equation ...