Several physical and chemical attributes of rice were evaluated to determine which character would be best to use to assess multiple rice varieties for resistance to the lesser grain borer, Rhyzopertha dominica (F.). Laboratory tests were conducted on single varieties of long-, short-, and medium grain-rice to develop procedures and methodologies that could be used for large-scale screening stu...

Effect of drying temperatures 180 Defect categories 180 Rupture of wood tissue 180 surface checks 180 End checks and splits 182 Collapse 183 H o n e y c o m b 1 8 5 Ring failure 186 Boxed-heart splits 186 Checked knots 186 Loose knots 186 Warp 187 Uneven moisture content 188 Board rejects 188 Water pockets 188 Control measures 188 Discoloration 189 Sapwood discolorations 189 Heartwood discolora...

Hedonic pricing analysis is conducted to determine the implicit values of various attributes in the market value of a good. In this study, hedonic pricing analysis was applied to measure the contribution of grain quality search and experience attributes to the price of rice in two rural towns in the Philippines. Rice samples from respondents underwent quantitative routine assessments of grain q...

Abstract The aim of this research is to present a simulation model for reducing economic damages of mechanized wheat harvesting in the weather conditions of Khuzestan province and similar areas. The simulated model is composed of three sub-models, for determining of the appropriate working hours, grain losses, and economic sub-model. In order to determine the appropriate working hours, a mathem...

The increased frequency of sudden cardiac death after earthquakes and bombings has long proposed that emotional distress plays a role in acute coronary syndromes and arrhythmias. Since the 1960s, several controlled, prospective, epidemiological studies have reported emotional distress as a major risk factor for the onset and worsening of coronary heart disease (CHD) [1]. The Interheart study, a...

This is a draft of a chapter for a book, Modification, in preparation for the Cambridge University Press series Key Topics in Semantics and Pragmatics. The full manuscript is also available as a single document on my website, as are some additional chapters. The book is something between a textbook for people who already have a basic background in semantics and a survey of work in the area. For...

It is postulated that certain repetitious DNA components play a role in the recombination processes during chromoxome reappangements. When the distribution of silver grain densities after the in situ hybridization of repetitious DNA (RUDKIN and TARTOF 1973) and the distribution of chromosome breaks due to X-irradiation (KAUFMANN 1946) are compared, a strong correlation is found for the euchroma...

Andreev reflection is investigated in layered anisotropic normal metal / superconductor (NE) systems in the case of an energy gap in S not negligible respect to the Fermi energy, as probably occurring in high critical temperature superconductors (HTS). We find that in these limits retroreflectivity, which is a fundamental feature of Andreev reflection, is broken modifying sensitively transport ...

This paper describes ongoing research into the application of pattern recognition to incised documents, for which grooves and other structural surface markings are signi2cant, rather than surface coloration. We deduce incised stroke information by imaging the document under a carefully selected set of lighting conditions that cause shadows to be cast, and observing the position and motion of sh...