Many lodging companies now find themselves in a challenging position. They are finding it more difficult to attract capital as the industry's growth begins to stabilize due to the inherent cycles and the onset of supply growth. Companies seeking growth and access to public financing must confront questions regarding the best structure as the marketplace changes. Many hotel companies are hybrid ...

Given that the stated purpose of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) is to create value for the newly merged firm, the M&A offer premium ought to be positively related to the realized benefits or realized synergies that result from combining the target and the acquirer. Not all empirical evidence supports this notion, however. Because some M&A activities have not been found to be consistently value ...

Lignin is an essential structural component of all land plants. It fills spaces in the cell wall between cellulose, hemicellulose, and pectin. Lignin provides the strength to plants from giant Sequoia trees to alfalfa growing in hay fields. A good analogy is that lignin is like the steel reinforcing rods in concrete. Life on earth would not be possible without lignin to allow plants to grow upr...

European flint × U.S. dent is the most common heterotic pattern used in early maize (Zea mays L.) breeding programs in Spain. Two synthetic maize populations, EZS1 (formed from four Spanish flint populations), and EZS2 (formed from four American dent populations), were developed in Zaragoza, Spain. These synthetics, which showed heterotic behaviour, were subjected to six cycles of S1 recurrent ...

Lignin modification has been a breeding target for the improvements of forage digestibility and energy yields in forage and bioenergy crops, but decreased lignin levels are often accompanied by reduced lodging resistance. The rice mutant gold hull and internode2 (gh2) has been identified to be lignin deficient. GH2 has been mapped to the short arm of chromosome 2 and encodes cinnamyl-alcohol de...

Lodging tolerance (LT) is an important trait for high yield and combine-harvesting efficiency in soybean [Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. Many previous studies have investigated quantitative trait loci (QTLs) for lodging score (LS) in soybean. Most of the investigated QTLs were located in the proximal region of maturity or growth habit loci. The aim of this study was to identify genetic factors for LT...

Submitted for the DFD08 Meeting of The American Physical Society Cardiovascular microbubble transport in vessel bifurcations with pulsatile flow: experimental model and theory1 DOUG VALASSIS, ROBERT DODDE, BRIJESH ESHPUNIYANI, J. BRIAN FOWLKES, JOSEPH BULL, University of Michigan — The behavior of long gas bubbles suspended in liquid flowing through successive bifurcations was investigated expe...

With increasingly frequent extreme weather events, lodging has become an important limiting factor for crop yield and quality mechanical harvesting. Lodging resistance is a precondition “super high yield” crops, the question of how to achieve guarantee urgent scientific problem. Here, we summarize anatomical results stems find that closely related stem components. Therefore, focus on roles lign...

Vascular infusions of 15-microm-diameter microspheres are used to study pulmonary blood flow distribution. The sites of microsphere lodging and their effects on microvascular perfusion are debated but unknown. Using intravital microscopy of the subpleural surface of rat lungs, we directly observed deposition of fluorescent microspheres. In a pump-perfused lung model, approximately 0.5 million m...

This paper examines common factors that constrain wheat yields: insufficient nutrients (using nitrogen as an example); problems of late planting and poor crop establishment; suboptimal water management; lodging; and weeds. The authors suggest agronomic practices, including tillage practices, rotations, and input management options that can ameliorate important constraints and sustainably improv...