Improving the efficiency of resource utilization has received increasing research attention in recent years. In this study, we explored the potential physiological mechanisms underlying improved grain yield and water-use efficiency of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) following organic fertilizer application. Two wheat cultivars, ChangHan58 (CH58) and XiNong9871 (XN9871), were grown under the...

Ashwagandha, commonly known as the Indian Ginseng (Withania somnifera) is an ingredient in many herbal preparations used for healing various ailments. It is cultivated in semi-arid regions of India as rain-fed crop. The response of this crop (cv. JA-134) to progressive soil moisture deficit on growth, physiology and content of phytochemicals was studied. At the end of treatment period, soil wat...

Two-year old seedlings of Silver buffaloberry (Shepherdia argentea (Pursh) Nutt.) were exposed to NaCl salinity (0, 200, 400 and 600 mmol/l) for 30 days. Leaf water potential (Ψw), chlorophyll contents (Chl a, b, and a + b) and K+ content decreased with an increase in salinity. Relative water content (RWC) declined significantly with 400 and 600 mmol/l NaCl. However, salinity induced an excessi...

Hydrologic alterations of river systems in western North America over the past century have increased soil salinity, contributing to the establishment and spread of an introduced halophytic species, Tamarix ramosissima (Ledeb.). The physiological responses of Tamarix ramosissima to salinity stress are incompletely known. To assess the salinity tolerance of this species, we measured several whol...

CL, CD, CD0 = lift coefficient, drag coefficient, and drag coefficient with zero lift DSi = dynamic soaring number sample E, Emin = aircraft total energy and minimum sustainable total energy, J g = gravity acceleration, m∕s h, hmin = altitude and safety altitude, m K = drag-polar-induced drag gain k1, k2, k3 = necessary and sufficient conditions inequality parameters L, D = lift and drag forces...

Compressed sensing is a new concept in signal processing. Assuming that a signal can be represented or approximated by only a few suitably chosen terms in a frame expansion, compressed sensing allows to recover this signal from much fewer samples than the Shannon-Nyquist theory requires. Many images can be sparsely approximated in expansions of suitable frames as wavelets, curvelets, wave atoms...

The earth retaining structures frequently represent key elements of ports and harbors, transportation systems, lifelines and other constructed facilities. Earthquakes might cause permanent deformations of retaining structures and even failures. In some cases, these deformations originated significant damages with disastrous physical and economic consequences. For gravity walls, the dynamic eart...

This paper deals with the hypoellipticity, local solvability and construction of solutions with prescribed singularities for several classes of PDE having double symplectic characteristics. We not only propose a short survey but we investigate several instructive model examples as well. As our results are obtained in the C∞ category, it is interesting to study the same operators in the Gevrey c...

We solve a problem, which while not fitting into the usual paradigm, can be viewed as a quantum computation. Suppose we are given a quantum system described by an N dimensional Hilbert space with a Hamiltonian of the form E|w〉〈w| where |w〉 is an unknown (normalized) state. We show how to discover |w〉 by adding a Hamiltonian (independent of |w〉) and evolving for a time proportional to N1/2/E. We...

and Applied Analysis 3 Let β > 0. The weighted-type space or growth space on the upper half-planeA∞ β Π consists of all f ∈ H Π such that ∥ ∥f ∥ ∥ A∞ β Π sup z∈Π Iz β ∣ ∣f z ∣ ∣ < ∞. 1.7 It is easy to check thatA∞ β Π is a Banach space with the norm defined above. For weightedtype spaces on the unit disk, polydisk, or the unit ball see, for example, papers 10, 32, 33 and the references therein....