Predictability { the ability to foretell that an implementation will not violate a set of speciied reliability and timeliness requirements { is a crucial, highly desirable property of responsive embedded systems. This paper overviews a development methodology for responsive systems, which enhances predictability by eliminating potential hazards resulting from physically-unsound speciications. T...

Introducción. En Venezuela, los cítricos son el quinto frutal más importante, con una superficie cosechada de 18 084 ha y rendimiento promedio 14,2 t ha-1, por debajo la producción mundial. A pesar ello, hay poca información sobre fisiología agronomía injertos cultivares utilizados en país, como parte estrategia para seleccionar las mejores combinaciones (injerto/portainjerto) épocas limitantes...

In Antony and Cleopatra, William Shakespeare highlights the cultures of East West. The play reveals quest for cultural survival between West as a major factor that stirs complexities. unrighteous representation Eastern culture shows complex nature multiculturalism canonical writers strove to represent in their writings. This study seeks substantiate challenges confront expressions multicultural...

In this work, seedlings of two citrus rootstocks, the salt-tolerant Cleopatra mandarin (Citrus reshni Hort. ex Tan.) and the salt-sensitive Carrizo citrange (Citrus sinensis [L.] Osb. x Poncirus trifoliata [L.] Raf.) were used to study the relationship between chloride and water uptake. The results indicated that net chloride uptake rates in both genotypes were alike and decreased linearly with...

Recent research suggests that systemic signalling and communication between roots and leaves plays an important role in plant defence against herbivores. In the present study, we show that the oviposition of the two-spotted spider mite Tetranychus urticae in the systemic leaves of citrus rootstock Citrus aurantium (sour orange) was reduced by 50% when a lower leaf was previously infested with c...