CONTEXT Walking in water has been included in rehabilitation programs. However, there is a dearth of information regarding the influence of a water current on physiological responses, rating of perceived exertion (RPE), and stride characteristics of subjects while they walk in water. OBJECTIVE To compare physiological responses, RPE, and stride characteristics of subjects walking in water (wi...

Examine what determines the e last ic i ty o f supp ly Imagine yourself as a Kansas wheat farmer. Because you earn all your income from selling wheat, you devote much effort to making your land as productive as it can be. You monitor weather and soil conditions, check your fields for pests and disease, and study the latest advances in farm technology. You know that the more wheat you grow, the ...

This work aims to estimate soil moisture and vegetation characteristics from Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) data using direct and reflected signals by the land surface surrounding a ground-based antenna. Observations are collected over a rainfed wheat field in southwestern France. The retrievals are compared with two independent reference datasets: in situ...

We assess the comparative advantage and protection of China’s major agricultural crops using a modified Policy Analysis Matrix (PAM) and 1996 to 1998 data. We consider the following commodities: early indica rice, late indica rice, japonica rice, south wheat, north wheat, south corn, north corn, sorghum, soybean, rapeseed, cotton, tobacco, sugarcane, and a subset of fruits and vegetables. Consi...

Wheat is a photo-insensitive and thermosensitive long day plant. It requires cool climate during the early part of its growth. Temperature plays a dominant role for wheat production in India. Both the start and end of wheat crop season are limited by temperature regimes. Within the growing season itself, warmer temperature shortens the vegetative crop duration. Wheat grain yield and quality are...

Wildfires are becoming increasingly dominant in tropical landscapes due to reinforcing feedbacks between land cover change and more severe dry conditions. This study focused on the Bolivian Chiquitania, a region located at the southern edge of Amazonia. The extensive, unique and well-conserved tropical dry forest in this region is susceptible to wildfires due to a marked seasonality. We used a ...

The eating behaviour of horses offered wheat distiller grains at varying levels in the concentrate was examined in two experiments. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of rate of inclusion and presentation (dry vs. soaked) of wheat distiller’s grains, and the responses in behaviour and processes of intake. In both experiments, the rates of inclusion were 1.00:0, 0.75:0.25, 0.5...

A near-isogenic line (NIL-7A-B-2), introgressed with a quantitative trait locus (QTL) on chromosome 7AS from wild emmer wheat (Triticum turgidum ssp. dicoccoides) into the background of bread wheat (T. aestivum L.) cv. BarNir, was recently developed and studied in our lab. NIL-7A-B-2 exhibited better productivity and photosynthetic capacity than its recurrent parent across a range of environmen...