Rates of penetration and development ofMeloidogyne incognita race 4 in roots of resistant (inbred Mp307, and S4 lines derived from the open-pollinated varieties Tebeau and Old Raccoon) and susceptible (Pioneer 3110) corn genotypes were determined. Seedlings grown in styrofoam containers were inoculated with 5,000 eggs of M. incognita. Roots were harvested at 3-day intervals starting at 3 days a...

This paper describes Concurrent METATEM, a programming language based on temporal logic, and applies it to the study of Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI). A Concurrent METATEM system consists of a number of asynchronously executing objects, which are able to communicate through broadcast message-passing. Each individual object directly executes a specification of its desired behaviour. ...

In a plasma containing charged dust grains, the dust acoustic instability (DAI) can be driven by ions streaming through the dust with speed less than the ion thermal speed. When the dust is strongly coupled in the liquid phase, the dispersion relation of the dust acoustic modes changes in a way that leads to an enhancement of the growth rate of the DAI. In this paper, we show how strong couplin...

This paper describes rst steps towards the formal speciica-tion and veriication of Distributed Artiicial Intelligence (DAI) systems, through the use of temporal belief logics. The paper rst describes Concurrent MetateM, a programming language for DAI, and then develops a logic that may be used to reason about Concurrent MetateM systems. The utility of this logic for specifying and verifying Con...

African yam bean (Sphenostylis stenocarpa) is an underexploited legume with the potential of becoming an alternative food staple to alleviate the problem of food security. An assessment was carried out on the growth and yield of AYB affected by Telfairia mosaic virus (TeMV) Infection. Telfairia mosaic virus caused severe mosaic, leaf distortion and malformation on AYB. Analyses of results revea...

Background: Appropriate clinical measures to prevent secondary brain damage in traumatic brain injury are of critical importance. Objectives: This study aims to investigate the relationships between serum electrolyte disturbances and Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS) score in patients with Diffuse Axonal Injury (DAI) at the time of admission and discharge. Materials & Methods: In this retrospective cr...

A cursory survey of applications in the DAI literature suggests that a primary area of using DAI technology for real-world systems can be found in telecommunications. This paper explores the current state-of-the-art of DAI and cooperative problem solving in this domain. Telecommunication networks have proven in the last five years to be a fertile ground for problems involving the coordination o...

No matter if a population is human or artificial, we can surely identify phenomena that can be described as micro or macro phenomena. In this paper, we discuss micro and macro aspects of a population from a DAI and a sociological point of view. We analyse similarities and differences in these viewpoints, and identify misperceptions in the DAI community about the micro-macro terminology. We expl...

BACKGROUND The results of recent studies on cognitive disability after traumatic brain injury-associated diffuse axonal injury (DAI) are inconsistent. In these studies, the diagnosis of DAI relied on cranial computed tomography. OBJECTIVE To further clarify the extent and severity of a possibly DAI-associated cognitive impairment by the use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and detailed neu...