Soil salinization requires developing genetically salt-tolerant and high-yielding genotypes, especially in semi-arid arid regions. In this study, two new Tunisian durum wheat cultivars, INRAT100 Dhahbi, were tested for the first time a semi-closed environment against salinity (0, 6 12 dS m-1). Dry weight of aerial root parts, plant height, number tillers per plant, spike awn length, grain yield...

Injecting weight noise during training has been proposed for almost two decades as a simple technique to improve fault tolerance and generalization of a multilayer perceptron (MLP). However, little has been done regarding their convergence behaviors. Therefore, we presents in this paper the convergence proofs of two of these algorithms for MLPs. One is based on combining injecting multiplicativ...

A sample of 200 web tables was interactively converted into layout-independent Augmented Wang Notation (AWN) using the Table Abstraction Tool (TAT). The resulting XML ground-truth files list for each table (1) cell contents, (2) relationships between the hierarchical column and row headers and the value/content/data cells, (3) designators for aggregates like totals and averages, and (4) ancilla...

BACKGROUND: Barley is one of the main important crops in the world, mainly used for animal feed and malt. OBJECTIVES: This study was conducted to evaluate the comparisons of seed yield and its components, phenological and physiological traits of different barley cultivars under Lorestan environmental condition. METHODS: Current rese...

The development of the African Wordnet (AWN) has reached a stage of maturity where the first steps towards an application can be attempted. The AWN is based on the expand method, and to compensate for the general resource scarceness of the African languages, various development strategies were used. The aim of this paper is to investigate the usefulness of the current isiZulu Wordnet in an appl...

For grass species to spread efficiently through their environment requires seeds that can disperse over large distances and burrow into the ground. Recent work using awns from Hordeum murinum in conjunction with mathematical modelling shows that awn shape leverages environmental oscillations in order to produce these directional translations.