in order to study the genetic diversity as well as the relationships between seed yield and some morphological traits in common white bean, 500 accessions were evaluated in the experimental field of national plant gene bank of iran in 2004 in an augment design of three control varieties. traits were evaluated according to the instruction of ipgri. results of descriptive statistics indicated tha...

This presentation focuses on the semi-automatic extension of Arabic WordNet (AWN) using lexical and morphological rules and applying Bayesian inference. We briefly report on the current status of AWN and propose a way of extending its coverage by taking advantage of a limited set of highly productive Arabic morphological rules for deriving a range of semantically related word forms from verb en...

Bean seed weight and shape are important traits of different market bean classes. One of the first associations found between a genetic marker and a quantitative trait was reported by Sax ( 1923) for the relationship between seed pigmentation {P gene) and seed weight in common bean. More recently three types of molecular markers have been used to study the genetics of seed weight in common bean...

Injecting weight noise during training has been proposed for almost two decades as a simple technique to improve fault tolerance and generalization of a multilayer perceptron (MLP). However, little has been done regarding their convergence behaviors. Therefore, we presents in this paper the convergence proofs of two of these algorithms for MLPs. One is based on combining injecting multiplicativ...

We want to study the perturbation growth of an initial seed of an ellipsoidal shape in Top-Hat collapse model of the structure formation in the Modied Chaplygin gas cosmology. Considering reasonable values of the constants and the parameters of the model under study, we can show that a very small deviation from spherical symmetry (ellipsoidal geometry) in the initial seed leads to a nal highly ...

Seed dispersal and germination were examined for 70 species from the cold Gurbantunggut Desert in northwest China. Mean and range (3 orders of magnitude) of seed mass were smaller and narrower than those in other floras (5-8 orders of magnitude), which implies that selection favors relatively smaller seeds in this desert. We identified five dispersal syndromes (anemochory, zoochory, autochory, ...

A sample of 200 web tables was interactively converted into layout-independent Augmented Wang Notation (AWN) using the Table Abstraction Tool (TAT). The resulting XML ground-truth files list for each table (1) cell contents, (2) relationships between the hierarchical column and row headers and the value/content/data cells, (3) designators for aggregates like totals and averages, and (4) ancilla...

Aim To provide the first global quantification of the slope and shape of the latitudinal gradient in seed mass, and to determine whether global patterns in seed mass are best explained by growth form, vegetation type, seed dispersal syndrome, or net primary productivity (NPP).