Limnanthes floccosa ssp. floccosa and L. floccosa ssp. grandiflora are two of five subspecies within Limnanthes floccosa endemic to vernal pools in southern Oregon and northern California. Three seasons of monitoring natural populations have quantified that L. floccosa ssp. grandiflora is always found growing sympatrically with L. floccosa ssp. floccosa and that their flowering times overlap co...

We propose a class of real-time data access protocols called SSP (Similarity Stack Protocol). The correctness of SSP schedules is justified by the concept of similarity which allows different but sufficiently timely data to be used in a computation without adversely affecting the outcome. SSP schedules are deadlock-free, subject to limited blocking, and do not use locks. We give a schedulabilit...

the antioxidant activities of methanol (me), ethanol (ee), water (we) and ethyl acetate (eae) extracts of four inula helenium l. taxa (i. helenium ssp. orygalis (boiss.) grierson, i. helenium ssp. pseudohelenium grierson, i. helenium ssp. turcarasemosa grierson and i. helenium ssp. vanensis grierson) were investigated. the phosphomolybdenum assay, β-carotene–linoleate bleaching and dpph radical...

Lactococcus lactis subspecies lactis (L. lactis ssp. lactis) and Lactococcus lactis subspecies cremoris (L. lactis ssp. cremoris) were investigated in respect to their response to acid, bile-salt and freezing stresses. First, the sublethal and lethal levels of each stress were determined for both subspecies. For acid stress, the levels were pH 4.5 and 2.5, respectively, for L. lactis ssp. lacti...

Plants have large diverse families of small secreted proteins (SSPs) that play critical roles in the processes of development, differentiation, defense, flowering, stress response, symbiosis, etc. Oryza sativa is one of the major crops worldwide and an excellent model for monocotyledonous plants. However, there had not been any effort to systematically analyze rice SSPs. Here, we constructed a ...

Niche-based models calibrated in the native range by relating species observations to climatic variables are commonly used to predict the potential spatial extent of species' invasion. This climate matching approach relies on the assumption that invasive species conserve their climatic niche in the invaded ranges. We test this assumption by analysing the climatic niche spaces of Spotted Knapwee...

The notion of partial deduction known from logic programming is deened in the framework of Structural Synthesis of Programs (SSP). Partial deduction for unconditional computability statements in SSP is deened. Completeness and correctness of partial deduction in the framework of SSP are proven. Several tactics and stopping criteria are suggested.

Four Luxi beef cattle (400±10 kg) fitted with ruminal, duodenal and ileal cannulas were used in a 4×4 Latin square to assess the effects of soybean small peptide (SSP) infusion on rumen fermentation, diet digestion and flow of nutrient in the gastrointestinal tract. The ruminal infusion of SSP was 0 (control), 100, 200 and 300 g/d. Ruminal SSP infusion linearly (p<0.01) and quadratically (p<0.0...

PURPOSE Senile scleral plaques (SSP) are sharply demarcated greyish areas located just anterior to the insertions of the horizontal rectus muscles and thus are frequently encountered during transscleral intravitreal injections. The aim of this study was to characterize SSP using enhanced depth imaging spectral domain anterior segment optical coherence tomography (OCT) in a cohort of patients at...