We used spectroradiometry to rapidly and nondestructively predict the nicotine content in fluecured tobacco leaves and obtained hyperspectral images of tobacco leaves during the squaring development stage at field conditions. We tested the nicotine content in the lab and analyzed correlations between 28 hyperspectral characteristic parameters and the nicotine content of tobacco leaves to establ...

BACKGROUND Several edible plants are used in Kingdom of Saudi Arabia since early time to control microbial infections. In the present study, twenty-four Saudi Arabian medicinal plants d according to traditionally used were select and investigated for the antimicrobial activities. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was designed at evaluating the antimicrobial activities of the methanol extracts ...

Theorem 1. Let A, S, I, and J be self-mappings of a complete metric space (X,d) such that the pairs (A,I) and (S,J) are commuting and A(X)⊂ J(X) and S(X)⊂ I(X) such [ 1+pd(Ax,Sy)]d(Ix,Jy) ≤ pmax{d(Ix,Ax)·d(Sy,Jy),d(Ix,Sy)·d(Jy,Ax)} +φ(d(Ax,Sy),d(Ix,Ax),d(Sy,Jy),d(Ix,Sy),d(Jy,Ax)), (1) for all x,y ∈ X where p ≥ 0 and φ ∈ Ψ . Then A, S, I, and J have a unique common fixed point provided one of th...

A Sasakian structure S=(;;;;g) on a manifold M is called positive if its basic rst Chern class c 1 (F) can be represented by a positive (1;1)-form with respect to its transverse holomorphic CR-structure. We prove a theorem that says that every positive Sasakian structure can be deformed to a Sasakian structure whose metric has positive Ricci curvature. This allows us by example to give a comple...

We review and elaborate on properties of the string tension in two-dimensional gauge theories. The first model we consider is massive QED in the m ≪ e limit. We evaluate the leading string tension both in the fermionic and bosonized descriptions. We discuss the next to leading corrections in m/e. The next-to-leading terms in the long distance behavior of the quark-antiquark potential, are evalu...

Wheat growth is sensitive to temperature, but the effect of future warming on yield is uncertain. Here, focusing on China, we compiled 46 observations of the sensitivity of wheat yield to temperature change (SY,T, yield change per °C) from field warming experiments and 102 SY,T estimates from local process-based and statistical models. The average SY,T from field warming experiments, local proc...