Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by millions of people in 20 different countries. However, not much work has been done in the field of online dictionaries or lexical resources. WordNet is an example of a lexical resource that has not been yet developed to its full extent for Arabic. WordNet, a lexical database developed by Professor George Miller and his team at Princeton University, has see...

Seed development of flowering plant is a complicated process controlled by a signal network. Double fertilization generates 2 zygotic products (embryo and endosperm). Embryo gives rise to a daughter plant while endosperm provides nutrients for embryo during embryogenesis and germination. Seed coat differentiates from maternally derived integument and encloses embryo and endosperm. Seed size/mas...

Shahin, M.A. and Symons, S.J. 2005. Seed sizing from images of non-singulated grain samples. Canadian Biosystems Engineering/Le génie des biosystèmes au Canada 47: 3.49 3.55. Image analysis is a strong candidate for developing automated measurement systems for seed sizing. A unique image analysis (IA) based approach to measuring seed size from non-singulated samples is presented in this paper. ...

Acoustic Web Navigator (AWN) is a prototype of an application for web browsing where structural, graphical, and text elements of web pages appear as a sound map under user’s mouse pointer or tab/arrow keys. It could serve as accessibility tool, as an interface for devices with limited visualization capabilities, for telerobotics, for sonic iconography, for development of other auditory-object i...

Many traits play essential roles in determining crop yield. Wide variation for morphological traits exists in Hordeum vulgare L., but the genetic basis of this morphological variation is largely unknown. To understand genetic basis controlling morphological traits affecting yield, a barley doubled haploid population (146 individuals) derived from Clipper × Sahara 3771 was used to map chromosome...

A morphological population balance model is applied to crystallisation of hen-egg white lysozyme (HEWL) for investigating the effects of seed loading and cooling rate on supersaturation, crystal size and shape distribution. Growth rates of individual faces and final crystal size and shape distribution were examined under varied seeding and cooling conditions. It was found that for growth only c...

Fire is a major disturbance affecting ecosystems worldwide. Phylogenetic studies have shown that the evolution of seed persistence (fire resistance) is associated with fire frequency or severity. However, the existence of specific seed traits resulting from natural selection mediated by fire remains a key question in plant evolution. We evaluated the role of fire in the evolution of seed traits...

seed storage proteins are synthesized as sources of carbon, nitrogen and sulfur for the next generation of plants. reactive oxygen species serve as second messengers for signal transduction; however, molecular targets of oxidant signaling have not been defined. here, many researchers showes that ligand–receptor mediated signaling promotes reactive oxygen species– dependent protein carbonylation...