28 Research on threats to pollination service in agro-ecosystems has focused primarily on 29 the negative impacts of land use change and agricultural practices, such as insecticide use, on 30 pollinator populations. Insecticide use could also affect the pollination process, through non31 lethal impacts on pollinator attraction and post-pollination processes such as pollen viability or 32 pollen...

abstract in this study, seven main field crops of the rudasht and abshar irrigation networks of esfahan (with 54,000 ha designed command area) such as wheat, barley, onion, sunflower, fodder mays and sugar beet were selected and swap model was calibrated by inverse modeling base on field experiments results in order to determine crop water salinity production functions. field experiments were c...

Map labeling of point-features is the problem of placing text labels to corresponding point-features on a map in a way that minimizes overlaps while satisfying basic rules for the quality. This problem is a critical problem in the applications of cartography and Geographical Information Systems (GIS). In this paper we study the fundamental issues related to map labeling of point-features and de...

Management of onion maggot, Delia antiqua (Meigen), in onion requires the use of an insecticide applied at planting. Insecticide resistance and a dearth of available products have stimulated an effort to identify new insecticides for onion maggot control, especially chemistries that can be delivered as seed treatments. Onion seeds film-coated with fipronil, spinosad, clothianidin or thiamethoxa...

This study was performed to investigate the inhibitory effect of green onion produced in Korea on the growth of A. parasiticus, a toxigenic strain. The effect was studied using different concentrations of freeze-dried green onion in solid culture with potato-dextrose agar (PDA) or in liquid culture with yeast-extract sucrose (YES) broth at 25°C for 15 days. The addition of green onion to the me...

The effect of oral ingestion of different fractions of onion (Allium cepa)--extract, residue, and whole--at a dose level equivalent to intake of 50 g of onion per day for a 70-kg man, for 30 days, to male adult, normal, albino rats was studied on blood and erythrocyte membrane lipids and certain membrane-bound enzymes. Onion extract and residue showed hypercholesterolemic effect, while whole on...

Irradiated raw ground beef had lower a*- and b*-values than nonirradiated ones regardless of garlic or onion treatment at 0 d. Irradiation increased TBARS values of control ground beef, but addition of 0.5% onion or 0.1% garlic+0.5% onion reduced oxidative changes during storage. Addition of garlic or onion greatly increased the amounts of sulfur compounds, but the increase was greater with gar...

Onion Routing is an infrastructure for private communication over a public network. It provides anonymous connections that are strongly resistant to both eavesdropping and tra c analysis. Onion routing's anonymous connections are bidirectional and near realtime, and can be used anywhere a socket connection can be used. Any identifying information must be in the data stream carried over an anony...