in order to investigate the effects of water deficit at different growth stages of chickpea genotypes, determining the best drought tolerance index and genotypes, an experiment carried out in the saatlu agricultural research station of uromia in 2008-2009. the experiment was split plot based on the randomized complete blocks design with four replications, in which, four levels of irrigation as ...

Cells moving on a two dimensional substrate generate motion by polymerizing actin filament networks inside a flat membrane protrusion. New filaments are generated by branching off existing ones, giving rise to branched network structures. We investigate the force-extension relation of branched filaments, grafted on an elastic structure at one end and pushing with the free ends against the leadi...

This paper presents a novel processing scheme for the automatic computation of a medial shape model which is representative for an object population with shape variability. The sensitivity of medial descriptions to object variations and small boundary perturbations are fundamental problems of any skeletonization technique. These problems are approached with the computation of a model with commo...

Let {V (u), u ∈ T} be a discrete-time branching random walk on the real line R, where T is an Ulam-Harris tree which describes the genealogy of the particles and V (u) ∈ R is the position of the particle u. When a particle u is at n-th generation, we write |u| = n for n ≥ 0. The branching random walk V can be described as follows: At the beginning, there is a single particle ∅ located at 0. The...

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) seed and oil have long been used widely as healthy foods to supply energy and prevent aging. Some of the main active anti-oxidative constituents in sesame seeds are γ-tocopherol and phenols. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between roasting temperature and time with γ-tocopherol and total phenolic compounds (TPC) of sesame seeds when roas...

TO THE EDITOR: We have given considerable thought to the study by Bartel and colleagues (1) in an attempt to reconcile their simulation of the long-range apparent diffusion coefficient (LRADC) obtained from hyperpolarized helium-3 experiments in human lungs, with our own simulation using totally different models (3). Bartel et al. (1) use a branching network, where airways are treated as line s...

1 LIP6, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 4 Place Jussieu, 75252 Paris Cedex 05, France. [email protected] Abstract. Knowledge about forced moves enables to select a small number of moves from the set of possible moves. It is very important in complex domains where search trees have a large branching factor. Knowing forced moves drastically cuts the search trees. We propose a language an...

Sesame (Sesamum indicum L.) seed and oil have long been used widely as healthy foods to supply energy and prevent aging. Some of the main active anti-oxidative constituents in sesame seeds are γ-tocopherol and phenols. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between roasting temperature and time with γ-tocopherol and total phenolic compounds (TPC) of sesame seeds when roas...