The quality traits of a single grain kernel can produce an index of the overall quality of the bulk grain, as individual kernels comprise a grain bulk. Therefore, single–kernel drying behavior is important in understanding the overall quality of grain. A Matlab based software package with C++ compiler was developed in this study for describing single–kernel drying, tempering, and internal stres...

1. MOTIVATION The big data questions addressed in the database community remind me of the famous fable of the invention of Chess. "When the creator of the game of chess (in some tellings an ancient Indian mathematician, ...) showed his invention to the ruler of the country, the ruler was so pleased that he gave the inventor the right to name his prize for the invention. The man, who was very wi...

Rice stripe disease, caused by Rice stripe virus (RSV), is one of the most serious rice diseases in temperate and subtropical regions of the world. Since RSV is not transmissible mechanically, an insect transmission test was the original basis for identification of the viral population and cultivar resistance. A simple, rapid and reliable method is described by which virus-free small brown plan...

HTCondor is a distributed job scheduler developed by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, which allows users to run their applications in other users’ machines when they are not being used, thus providing a considerably increase in the overall computational power and a more efficient use of the computing resources. Our institution has been successfully using HTCondor for more than ten years, an...

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