Background: As the decomposition of lignocellulosic compounds is a rate-limiting stage in the nutrient mineralization from organic matters, elucidation of the changes in soil enzyme activity can provide insight into the nutrient dynamics and ecosystem functioning. The current study aimed to assess the effect of thinning intensities on soil conditions. Un-thinned control, 20 % thinning, and 30 %...

A 21 ac, 28-yr-old water oak (Quercus nigra L.)plantation, on an old-field loessial site in north Louisiana, was subjected to three thinning treatments during the winter of 1987-1988: (I) no thinning, (2) light thinning to 180 dominant and codominant trees/at, and (3) heavy thinning to 90 dominant and codominant trees/at. Prior to thinning, the plantation averaged 356 trees/at and 86@/ac of bas...

We study the pinch-off dynamics of droplets of yield stress and shear thinning fluids. To separate the two non-Newtonian effects, we use a yield stress material for which the yield stress can be tuned without changing the shear thinning behavior, and a shear thinning system (without a yield stress) for which the shear thinning can be controlled over a large range, without introducing too much e...

Importance Measurement of the rates of retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning has consisted primarily of the circumpapillary RNFL profile. This study reports the rates of RNFL thinning over the 6 × 6 mm2 RNFL thickness map and their application for indication of visual field (VF) worsening in patients with glaucoma. Objective To investigate the association between the rates of RNFL thinnin...

Soil respiration is controlled by soil temperature, soil water, fine roots, microbial activity, and soil physical and chemical properties. Forest thinning changes soil temperature, soil water content, and root density and activity, and thus changes soil respiration. We measured soil respiration monthly and soil temperature and volumetric soil water continuously in a young ponderosa pine (Pinus ...

The design, implementation and optimization of FPGA accelerators is a challenging task, especially when the accelerator comprises multiple compute cores distributed across CPU and FPGA resources and memories and exhibits data-dependent runtime behavior. In order to simplify the development of FPGA accelerators we propose IMORC, an infrastructure and architecture template that helps raising the ...