One of the possible ways to ensure future food needs of an increasing world population involves the better water use through the development of crop varieties which need less water and are more tolerant to drought. In order to study the response of twenty landraces of bread wheat to drought stress, an experiment was conducted in a randomized complete block design with three replications under t...

As high-performance embedded computing systems become more commonplace in a variety of applications, the need for supporting standards becomes more critical. Specifications developed by concensus, such as Message Passing Interface (MPI) and Vector, Signal, and Image Processing (VSIP), and "de facto" standards such as MATLAB , provide a means for developers to create real-time applications acro...

Cold-induced vasodilatation (CIVD), which occurs in fingers and toes exposed to extreme cold, is a defensive reaction of protecting the extremities against frostbite. Yoshimura and Iida (1950) developed a practical method, based on observation of CIVD reactivity, for assessing peripheral resistance against frostbite (local cold tolerance). Thereafter, many studies using this test method to clar...