Background and Aims: To evaluate the effect of temperature on wheat streak mosaic virus (WSMV) resistance phenotype, through total protein, phenol, and peroxidase activity in bread wheat, a factorial experiment was conducted using Adl-Cross (resistant) and Marvdasht (susceptible) cultivars. Materials and Methods: Results showed that incubation at 32C changed the gene expression for resistance ...

In this study which is based on the information taken from the map of Soil Conservation and Management Master Plan of Turkey published by the Ministry of Agriculture Forestry and Rural Affairs in 1987, all major soil groups were digitized and stored in a computer. After transferring process, the data in a GIS software have been used with different data such as main characteristics of the soils,...

This paper will focus on the issues concerned with a parallel implementation strategy for the feature point stereo image matching algorithm published by Barnard and Thompson (See Barnard and Thompson 1981). The performance and software engineering aspects of the implementation on a parallel computer are discussed. This implementation is expected to provide a foundation for one processing stage ...

A framework is a collection of classes implementing the shared architecture of a family of applications. It is shown how the extension points ("hot spots") of a framework can be specified formally in such a way that the specification can be used to automatically generate a task-based wizard for guiding the framework specialization process. The extension points are specified as parameterized pat...

The participants in energy markets (EMs) can purchase and sell electricity through a few basic instruments, notably spot markets and bilateral contracts. This work aims at using software agents to help manage the complexity of EMs. Specifically, this paper centers on contract negotiation between a single retailer and a coalition of enduse customers—that is, two or more customers ally into a coa...

A central question in law and economics is whether, with limited resources, police activity should be narrowly focused and high force, or widely-dispersed but of moderate intensity. Critics of intense “hot spot” enforcement argue that this approach will only lead to crime shifting to other locations or other times. But if law breakers take time to learn that enforcement has begun, the police ma...

In order to research an aspherical liquid lens with simple structure and easy realization, the double-liquid based on planar electrode is designed dielectrophoretic effect. The droplet in dielectric electrophoretic polarized electric field move towards direction of higher intensity under action dielectrophoresis forces. With change applied voltage, forces are also changes, thus contact angle at...

1. Intracellular responses were recorded from rods in isolated eye-cups of the snapping turtle. Chelydra serpentina. Responses to flashes of small (less than 100 mum diameter) and large (1000 mum diameter) spots of 500 nm light were studied. 2. Responses produced by small and large diameter spots which delivered less than 0-3 photons mum-2 had the same shape. The responses produced by large spo...

We present SPOT, an open-source toolbox for the experimental analysis of optimization algorithms. Evolution strategies (ES) have been severely criticized before they started their triumphal procession as optimization algorithms. Schwefel discussed ideas which appeared to be provocative at the first sight. SPOT provides a modern framework to test these ideas. The extreme programming methodology ...

In order to support personalized people comfort and building energy efficiency as well as safety, emergency, and context-aware information exchange scenarios, next-generation buildings will be smart. In this paper we propose an agent-oriented decentralized and embedded architecture based on wireless sensor and actuator networks (WSANs) for enabling efficient and effective management of building...