Published in Agron. J. 102:1641–1651 (2010) Published online 30 Sept 2010 Available freely online through the author-supported open access option. doi:10.2134/agronj2010.0076 Copyright © 2010 by the American Society of Agronomy, 5585 Guilford Road, Madison, WI 53711. All rights reserved. No part of this periodical may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mecha...

This paper examines and evaluates the integrated use of satellite remote sensing and meteorological data for estimating crop water requirements over agricultural areas of Cyprus. Intended purpose of this project is to estimate evapotranspiration using modeling techniques, satellite and meteorological data for monitoring irrigation demand. ETc was calculated with the FAO Penman-Monteith method b...

Agricultural production is critical to meeting Indonesia's food demands. The water catchment area of Parit Keladi 1, located in Desa Keladi, Kecamatan Sungai Kakap, Kabupaten Kubu Raya, Provinsi Kalimantan Barat, includes tidal swamp land that has a variety plants. Cropwat 8.0 Software will be used this research assess crop needs. This employs primary and secondary data, including soil samples,...

A detailed comparison of the Penman Upper Model and the KOMET German Upper Model is carried out in order to construct a new Merged Upper Model capable of serving as the ideational basis for automatic text generation in both English and German. Previously proposed criteria for conducting such a merge are expanded on and evaluated. It is established that no (semi-)automatic merging of such knowle...

One of the most important issues in corporate finance is whether dividend changes contain information about future earnings and profitability. Although dividend signaling theories imply that dividend increases signal better prospects (e.g., Bhattacharya 1979; John and Williams 1985; andMiller and Rock 1985), many empirical studies have failed to support this idea. Studies by Watts (1973), Goned...

In this paper we address the organization and use of the lexicon giving special consideration to how the salience of certain aspects of abstract semantic structure may be expressed. We propose an organization of the lexicon and its interaction with grammar and knowledge that makes extensive use of lexical funct ions from the Meaning-Text-Theory of Mel'~uk. We integrate this approach with the ar...