in order to evaluate the relationship between grain yield and agronomic characteristics in bread wheat genotypes in different planting dates under rainfed conditions, a factorial experiment was conducted based on rcbd with four replications at gonbad-e qabus region, iran, during 2012-2014 growing seasons. number of spikes per unit area, grain filling rate, effective grain filling period, number...

The controversy evolution vs. creationism is inherent to the incompatibility between scientific rationalism/empiricism and the belief in supernatural causation. To test this hypothesis, we conceptualized a Cartesian landscape where the dependent variable acceptance of evolution was plotted as function of three factors, each represented by an index (value range 0 to 3): Religiosity Index (RI), S...

We introduce a new form of regression that has many applications to environmental studies. For a sequence composed of key variates with prototypic value chi, this form differs from the estimation of a location parameter-based curve, mu(chi), a scale parameter-based curve, sigma(chi), or other currently used types of regression. Instead of estimating a curve location, scale, or alpha-quantile pa...

This paper presents an application of plastic evolu tion to design a new chemical index (the coordination index , ( .) that permits molecular characterizati on. Ie is applied to homologous series of phenyl alcohols and 4-alkylanilines. and compared to charge indices for dipole mome nt. The parameters needed to calcu late Ie are minus the standard enthalpy of formation T, molecu lar surface area...

In a physiological environment, nanoparticles selectively absorb proteins to form 'nanoparticle-protein coronas', a process governed by molecular interactions between chemical groups on the nanoparticle surfaces and the amino-acid residues of the proteins. Here, we propose a biological surface adsorption index to characterize these interactions by quantifying the competitive adsorption of a set...

Leaf area index, defined as one half the total (all sided) leaf area per unit ground surface area [1], is a key vegetation structural parameter used in most ecological, hydrological and meteorological models to describe physical and biological processes associated with vegetated surfaces and their interaction with the atmosphere. The accuracy of existing global LAI parameters is not yet satisfa...

Dermal exposures of methanol were administered in a clinical study designed to compare several biological indicators. Four subjects were exposed in five exposure sessions of varying length. In each session, a sequence of measurements of methanol concentrations in blood, breath, and headspace samples of air at exposed and unexposed skin were collected before and after dermal exposures. Skin head...

In this paper we propose a rule-based mechanism using Natural Language Processing techniques for extracting biological relations from biomedical text documents. While the rules identify frequently occurring patterns that can be potential relations, significant relations are identified using statistical analysis. Evaluation of the technique has been done on MEDLINE abstracts obtained from the GE...