Abstract Profitability, yield, and fertilizer use are compared across three different potassium (K) rate recommendation ideologies. Existing agronomic, “build maintain” recommendations (KE) to profit-maximizing rates with without taking long-run soil-test K (STK) implications into account. Regardless of starting STK, equilibrated over the course 3 years irrespective ideology. Since STK account ...

IFN-gamma primes macrophages for antimicrobial activity, increased killing of intracellular pathogens, and Ag processing and presentation to lymphocytes by cooperating with a second signal (provided by LPS or endogenous TNF-alpha) to promote increased proinflammatory cytokine production, NO production, and MHC class II expression. Macrophage-stimulating protein (MSP) suppresses NO production by...

Seed dispersal is an essential trait that enables colonization of new favorable habitats, ensuring species survival. In plants with dehiscent fruits, such as Arabidopsis, seed dispersal depends on two processes: the separation of the fruit valves that protect the seeds (fruit dehiscence) and the detachment of the seeds from the funiculus connecting them to the mother plant (seed abscission). Th...

Protein kinases constitute a large family of regulatory enzymes involved in the homeostasis of virtually every cellular process. Subversion of protein kinases has been frequently implicated in malignant transformation. Within the family, serine/threonine kinases (STK) have received comparatively lesser attention, vis-a-vis tyrosine kinases, in terms of their involvement in human cancers. Here, ...

In this paper, we demonstrate Hermes@Neo4j1, an extension of Neo4j graph DMBS for semantic trajectories of moving objects, on the so-called Spatio-Temporal-Keyword Pattern queries. For this purpose, our engine exploits on hybrid Spatio-TemporalKeyword (STK) index structures, also boosted by an appropriate selectivity estimation model. Hermes@Neo4j functionality is demonstrated over synthetic an...

This paper presents a cross-platform C++ programming environment designed for rapid prototyping of music synthesis and audio processing programs. The Synthesis ToolKit offers an array of unit generators for filtering, input/output, etc., as well as examples of new and classic synthesis and effects algorithms for research, teaching, performance, and composition purposes.

Computational software workflows are emerging as all-in-one solutions to speed up the discovery of new materials. Many computational approaches require generation realistic structural models for property prediction and candidate screening. However, molecular supramolecular materials represent classes with many potential applications which there is no go-to database existing structures or genera...

As a service to the satellite operator community, the Center for Space Standards & Innovation (CSSI) offers SOCRATES—Satellite Orbital Conjunction Reports Assessing Threatening Encounters in Space. CSSI runs a list of all satellite payloads on orbit against a list of all objects on orbit using the catalog of all unclassified NORAD two-line element sets (TLEs) to look for satellite conjunctions ...