the effect of ca, zn and b foliar application (five g l-1) and their mixed applications as well as two harvest dates (1st and 15st of august) on ppo activity of two commercial asian pears (‘ks’9 and ‘ks’13) fruits at the time of harvest and during storage were investigated. results showed that the ppo activity increased from harvest time to three months after storage and then decreased. during ...

We discuss a cellular-automata (CA) LSI core that extracts early features of objects in images, such as sizes and skeletons. A CMOS-image sensor with a CA core enables high-speed image processing. We propose an efficient CA algorithm based on rotated template matching. Each cell circuit in the proposed CA is implemented by a digital circuit, and transistors in each cell circuit number 198 in fu...

Zeolite A nanocrystals (100-240 nm) with well-developed crystal faces and uniform particle size distribution have been prepared at 80 degrees C for ca. 7.5 min in a two-phase liquid segmented microfluidic reactor using a manipulated organic template-free synthesis solution.

Family Planning Perspectives In the early 1990s, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved subdermal contraceptive implants and the injectable contraceptive depot medroxy progesterone acetate (DMPA), adding two long-term methods to the array of contraceptives currently available. A primary concern associated with these highly effective methods is that, as has been documented among women wh...

This paper serves as an opportunity to pull together some thoughts and questions about modes of incorporation as an explanation for ethnic differences in behavior. Specifically, I ask just what is the status of cultural explanations for ethnic behavior if ethnic behavior is approached from a modes-of-incorporation perspective. I ask this question both in connection with individuals of the immig...

The frequency comb created by a femtosecond mode-locked laser and a microstructured fiber is used to phase coherently measure the frequencies of both the Hg+ and Ca optical standards with respect to the SI second. We find the transition frequencies to be f(Hg) = 1 064 721 609 899 143(10) Hz and f(Ca) = 455 986 240 494 158(26) Hz, respectively. In addition to the unprecedented precision demonstr...

A total of 719 wild rats were captured from four localities representing the west (Kuala Lumpur), east (Kuantan), north (Georgetown) and south (Malacca) to determine the diversity of blood protozoan from the urban wild rat population in peninsular Malaysia. Five rat species were recovered with Rattus rattus diardii being the most dominant species, followed by Rattus norvegicus, Rattus exulans, ...

chemistry Nitrosamines (NAs) are a family of chemical compounds discovered over 100 years ago. It was not until the 1950s that these compounds received worldwide attention. In the 1950s, two British scientists, Barnes and Magee discovered that dimethylnitrosamine is a powerful carcinogen in laboratory animals. This finding led to massive studies involving NAs in many industries throughout the y...

So far, we have been concerned with nonparametric tests and procedures: tests and procedures with minimal assumptions about the probability distribution that gives rise to the data. Examples of the kinds of assumptions we have made in various places are that the distribution is continuous, that the observations are iid, that subjects are randomized into treatment and control, etc. We now consid...

Human behavior is mostly composed of habitual actions that require little conscious control. Such actions may become invalid if the environment changes, at which point individuals need to switch behavior by overcoming habitual actions that are otherwise triggered automatically. It is unknown how the brain controls this type of behavioral switching. Here we show that the presupplementary motor a...