Dietary vitamin A deficiency causes eye disease in 40 million children each year and places 140 to 250 million at risk for health disorders. Many children in sub-Saharan Africa subsist on maize-based diets. Maize displays considerable natural variation for carotenoid composition, including vitamin A precursors alpha-carotene, beta-carotene, and beta-cryptoxanthin. Through association analysis, ...

The skeleton is a continuous planar shape for representation as a kind of primitive of the original. The skeleton efficiently concentrates the topological information of the original shape. It is particularly useful for representing amorphous, irregular shapes that cannot be treated by more conventional geometrical methods. The possible applications include the creation of shape primitives, cur...

Power-line networks are widely used today for broadband data transmission. However, due to multipaths within the broadband power line communication (BPLC) systems owing to stochastic changes in the network load impedances, branches, etc., network or channel capacity performances are affected. This paper attempts to investigate the performance of typical medium voltage channels that uses Orthogo...

We present in this paper a structure{sharing framework originally developed for a Dynamic Programming interpreter of Logic Programs called DyALog. This mechanism should be of interest for alternative execution models of PROLOG which maintain multiple computation branches and reuse sub{computations in various contexts (computation sharing). This category includes , besides our Dynamic Programmin...

Face detection, which is an effortless task for humans, complex to perform on machines. The recent veer proliferation of computational resources paving the way frantic advancement face detection technology. Many astutely developed algorithms have been proposed detect faces. However, there little attention paid in making a comprehensive survey available algorithms. This paper aims at providing f...

to investigate the effects of supplementary irrigation and application of different compost levels on morphological traits, yield and yield components of two chickpea cultivars under dry land conditions, a field experiment was conducted at the research field in khoramabad, iran in 2009-2010. the experiment was split split plot based on randomized complete block design with four levels of irriga...

Tree risk assessment requires mechanical response studies, but simplification of the shape, material, or boundary conditions is necessary when dealing with such complex structures. To observe overall tree response, sub-structuring to several levels detail can be used, enabled by recent developments in numerical methods and three-dimensional laser scanning (3D scan). This study aimed determine a...