Nineteen species of the deep-water fish family Macrouridae inhabit Mid-Atlantic Ridge (MAR) North Atlantic. Size and age structure, longevity length at were explored for seven more abundant species: Coryphaenoides armatus, brevibarbis, carapinus, guentheri, mediterraneus, rupestris Macrourus berglax. The otoliths from these had growth increments resembling those accepted as annuli in other whic...

Reconstruction of fingerprint ridge lines is a critical pre-processing step in the identification of poor quality fingerprint images. This paper presents a new fingerprint ridge line reconstruction approach by way of ridge line tracing. In our research, the fingerprint ridge line in a gray scale image is viewed as a track of a ridge segment moving along the ridge. The curve tracing problem is s...

Phenology and abundance of bean leaf beetles, Cerotoma trifurcata (Förster), were examined throughout two eastern South Dakota growing seasons in relation to grain yields in chisel- and ridge-tilled soybeans [Glycine max (L.) Merrill] grown in 2-yr rotation with corn (Zea mays L.) with and without added nitrogen (N). Populations were also sampled early and late season in alfalfa (Medicago sativ...

The convergence behavior of (1 +; ){ES is investigated at parabolic ridge, sharp ridge, and at the general case of the ridge functions. The progress rate, the distance to the ridge axis, the success rate, and the success probability are used in the analysis. For the parabolic ridge, we observed in our simulations with large values using (1; ){ES a larger progress rate asymptote than the theoret...

With the demonstration of a strong genetic component in ridge counts by Sarah Holt (eg, Holt, 1961), which came as the culmination of a large number of early exploratory papers on the inheritance of dermatoglyphic traits (summarized in Cummins and Midlo, 1961), the relationship of finger and palm prints with genetic disease was an obvious topic for exploration. During the last decade a number o...

The present study was planned to assess the relationship of palmar dermatoglyphic patterns of hands in women with breast cancer and or at risk for developing breast cancer. This study was conducted on 100 histopathologically confirmed breast cancer patients in women and their digital dermatoglyphic patterns were studied to assess their association with the type and onset of breast cancer. Simul...

1. Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 2. The Institute for Functional Imaging of Materials, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN 37831 3. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Knoxville TN 37996 4. Materials Sciences and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, T...

The effects of drip irrigation and different cultivation methods on seedgermination and growth of Puccinellia tenuiflora in saline-sodic soils wereinvestigated in field experiments during 2008-2010 in the Songnen Plain, China.Drip irrigation was applied to waste saline-sodic P. tenuiflora grasslands for bothflat and ridge cultivation methods. Drip irrigation affected the distributions ofelectri...

Anomalies persist in the foundations of ridge regression as set forth in Hoerl and Kennard (1970) and subsequently. Conventional ridge estimators and their properties do not follow on constraining lengths of solution vectors using LaGrange’s method, as claimed. Estimators so constrained have singular distributions; the proposed solutions are not necessarily minimizing; and heretofore undiscover...