The adaptability of shortseason soybean genotypes to varying longitudinal regions Jegor Miladinovic a,∗, Hideki Kurosaki b, Joe W. Burton c, Milica Hrustic a, Dragana Miladinovic a a Institute of Field and Vegetable Crops, M. Gorkog 30, 21000 Novi Sad, Serbia b Hokkaido Prefectural Tokachi Agricultural Experiment Station, Memuro-cho, Kasai-gun, Hokkaido 082-0071, Japan c USDA Plant Science Bldg...

1 Institute for Bioinformatics Research and Development (BIRD), Japan Science and TechnologyAgency (JST), 3-14-4 Shirokane-dai, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0071, Japan 2 Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, University of Tokyo, 5-1-5 Kashiwanoha, Kashiwa-shi, Chiba 277-8562, Japan 3 Computational Biology Research Center (CBRC), National Institute of Advanced IndustrialScience and Technology (AIST), 2...

in order to help in the engineering design of rice harvesting machines, there is a need to have exact information concerning the physical and mechanical properties of rice stems. the cutting force for rice stems, therefore, was measured by designing and fabricating a static and dynamic shear test apparatus. the effects of moisture levels and the cross-sectional area of stem as well as the varie...

Controlled hypobaria presents biology with an environment that is never encountered in terrestrial ecology, yet the apparent components of hypobaria are stresses typical of terrestrial ecosystems. High altitude, for example, presents terrestrial hypobaria always with hypoxia as a component stress, since the relative partial pressure of O2 is constant in the atmosphere. Laboratory-controlled hyp...

As one of the significant phenomena in earthquake geotechnical engineering, liquefaction can cause severe damages. A number of factors play a role in the occurrence of liquefaction such as magnitude of earthquake, void ratio, relative density, and fines content percentage. The impact of building construction overburdens on liquefaction is of paramount importance. The present study was aimed at ...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to establish normative data for healthy Korean adults by measuring the maximal strength and endurance scores of the tongue, lip, and cheek, and to examine correlations between these measurements. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study included 120 subjects that were divided into three groups according to age: young (20-39 years), middle-aged (40-59 years), a...

Real-time shear-wave elastography (SWE) is a newly developed method which can obtain the stiffness of tissues and organs based on tracking of shear wave propagation through a structure. Several studies have demonstrated its potential in the differentiation between diseased and normal tissue in clinical practices, however the applicability to testicular disease has not been well elucidated. We i...