Drought control and resistance affect national food security. With this in mind, we studied five main grain-producing regions of China: Sanjiang Plain, Songnen Plain, Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, the middle Yangtze River and Jianghuai region and Sichuan Basin. Using GIS technology, we evaluated the comprehensive agricultural drought situation based on major crops, the basic drought resistance by integ...

ActorsOnlyRule(v:ACViewClass) ::= §o:ObjectClass· o∈v ∧o∈find_all_abstract_actors () Query22 find_all_abstract_actors()::= §a:SpecifiedActorElementClass· (a in AbstractActorElementClass) 5.2.5 Plain-Actors-Only view Informal description A Plain-Actors-Only view presents plain actors, their direct specified actors, and the “specifies” links that connect them. master-thesis-v4.4.doc 93/231 9/1/20...

We introduce a technique for creating novel, enhanced thumbnails of Web pages. These thumbnails combine the advantages of plain thumbnails and text summaries to provide consistent performance on a variety of tasks. We conducted a study in which participants used three different types of summaries (enhanced thumbnails, plain thumbnails, and text summaries) to search Web pages to find several dif...

This issue of IJE includes a theme on autism edited by two of us (Ezra Susser and Michealine Bresnahan). Our colleague Guohua Li joins us to write this introduction. In choosing this topic we venture into territory marked by controversy and conflict. The heat of the conflict is reflected in two recently published books, reviewed here by Stein and by Grinker. One of the flashpoints of controvers...

The Web has become a popular starting point for many innovations targeting infrastructure, services, and applications. One of the challenges of today’s vast Web landscape is to monitor ongoing developments, put them into context, and assess their chances of success. One of the main virtues of a more scientific approach towards the Web landscape would be a clear differentiation between approache...

Article Submission For inclusion in Hyperseeing, authors are invited to email articles for the preceding categories to: Articles should be a maximum of eight pages. Plain weaving is one of the most beautiful and widely used geometric forms. In plain weaving, a set of distinct threads (or yarns) are interlaced with each other to form a fabric or cloth where each thread crosses the other threads ...

the introduction of l. vannamei to iran was initiated when high mortality occurred in shrimp farms of abadan in  2002 then in bushehr during summer of 2004.. inspection of l. vannamei for infectious agents , specially virus and  bacteria and relationship between them were the main objectives of this study. therefore about 240 samples consisting  of shrimps of l. vannamei were collected from far...