Broom snakeweed (snakeweed) is a native range shrub found throughout semiarid rangelands of the western United States, which increases and dominates plant communities after disturbances such as overgrazing, drought, or wildfire. The objective of this study was to compare the ability of selected grass species and prostrate kochia to restrict establishment and growth of snakeweed seedlings in pot...

⎯In this paper, we construct a pair of Mond-Weir type second order symmetric dual problems, in which the objective function contains support function and is, therefore, nondifferentiable. For this pair of problems, we validate weak, strong and converse duality theorems under pseudobonvexity – pseudoboncavity assumption on the kernel function that appears in the problems. A second order self dua...

Whole-genome shotgun (WGS) sequencing has become a routine method in genome research over the past decade. However, the assembly of highly polymorphic regions in WGS projects remains a challenge, especially for large genomes. Employing BAC library constructing, PCR screening and Sanger sequencing, traditional strategy is laborious and expensive, which hampers research on polymorphic genomic reg...

Fritz John and Kuhn-Tucker type necessary optimality conditions for a Pareto optimal (efficient) solution of a multiobjective control problem are obtained by first reducing the multiobjective control problem to a system of single objective control problems, and then using already established optimality conditions. As an application of Kuhn-Tucker type optimality conditions, Wolfe and Mond-Weir ...

In this paper, Antczak’s -approximation approach is used to prove the equivalence between optima of multiobjective programming problems and the -saddle points of the associated -approximated vector optimisation problems. We introduce an -Lagrange function for a constructed -approximated vector optimisation problem and present some modified -saddle point results. Furthermore, we construct an -ap...

We present a platform for parallelized manipulations of individual polarizable micron-scale particles (i.e., microparticles) that combines negative dielectrophoretic forcing with the passive capture of hydrodynamic weir-based trapping. Our work enables manipulations using ejection- andor exclusion-based methods. In ejection operations, we unload targeted weirs by displacing microparticles from ...

Crested wheatgrass (Agropyron cristatum L.) breeding programs aim to develop later maturing cultivars for extending early spring grazing in Western Canada. Plant maturity is a complex genetic trait, and little is known about genes associated with late maturity in this species. An attempt was made using RNA-Seq to profile the transcriptome of crested wheatgrass maturity and to analyze differenti...

Considering a general vector optimization problem, we attach to it two new vector duals by means of perturbation theory. These vector duals are constructed with the help of the recent Wolfe and Mond-Weir scalar duals for general optimization problems proposed by R.I. Boţ and S.-M. Grad, by exploiting an idea due to W. Breckner and I. Kolumbán. Constrained and unconstrained vector optimization p...