This paper tries to present digital spoken books as a useful diagnostic tool for detecting alignment and recognition problems and for studying the porting of these technologies to different varieties of the same language Portuguese, in our case. We summarize the main differences between European and Brazilian Portuguese (EP/BP) and describe how they affect the GtoP system. Despite the small siz...

In northern Italy, several local varieties are grown in regional field trials with the aim of selecting the best cultivars for specific environments. In this paper, two northern varieties from Liguria (Razzola and Taggiasca) are compared to a widespread cultivar (Frantoio) to test the degree of plasticity and adaptation in leaf characters. Leaf gas exchange, N content and morphological paramete...

About 10,000 years BC, people harvested their food from the natural biological diversity that surrounded them, and eventually domesticated crops and animals. During the process of domestication, people began to select better plant materials for propagation and animals for breeding, initially unwittingly, but ultimately with the intention of developing improved food crops and livestock. Over tho...

In [2], Alexeev constructed a proper moduli space of polarized toric varieties. However, in addition to the main component containing the toric varieties, there were additional irreducible components which were tricky to eliminate in a canonical way. Later, Olsson [1] showed how adding a log structure to the toric varieties under consideration effectively restricted the problem enough to single...

We construct endomotives associated to toric varieties, in terms of the decomposition of a toric variety into torus orbits and the action of a semigroup of toric morphisms. We show that the endomotives can be endowed with time evolutions and we discuss the resulting quantum statistical mechanical systems. We show that in particular, one can construct a time evolution related to the logarithmic ...

1. Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 2. Characters and 1-Parameter Subgroups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 3. Toric Varieties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....

Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) is one of the most important pests of cassava in Africa and several countries of Asia due to the damage caused by direct feeding, the excretion of honeydew, and its capacity as a vector of cassava mosaic geminivirus. There is a general consensus that B. tabaci is a complex of morphologically indistinguishable populations with different biotypes. In the Americas, the p...

Recognizing both the stakes of traditional European common bean diversity and the role farmers' and gardeners' networks play in maintaining this diversity, the present study examines the role that local adaptation plays for the management of common bean diversity in situ. To the purpose, four historical bean varieties and one modern control were multiplied on two organic farms for three growing...

Climate change adversely affects Ethiopian economy due to heavy dependence of the agricultural sector on rainfall. A decrease of rainfall and rise in temperature has been increasing the exposure of the country to frequent drought. The study was conducted in central Tigray, Adiha tabia, to examine the perception of farmers on trends of climate changes and existing coping strategies. Farmers’ kno...