Semiclassical complex interactions at a non-analytic turning point

We continue a dominant WKB solution of the Schr\"odinger equation in the classically forbidden region to an outgoing WKB solution in the classically allowed region across a simple (multi-dimensional) turning point, without assuming the analyticity for the potential. This report explains briefly the method used in \cite{bfm}, where we computed the semiclassical asymptotics of the width of shape resonances for non-globally analytic potentials

Width of shape resonances for non globally analytic potentials

We consider the semiclassical Schroedinger operator with a well-in-an-island potential, on which we assume C-infinity smoothness only, except near infinity. We give the asymptotic expansion of the imaginary part of the shape resonance at the bottom of the well. This is a generalization of a result by Helffer and Sj"ostrand in the globally analytic case. We use an almost analytic extension in order to continue the WKB solution coming from the well beyond the caustic set, and, for the justification of the accuracy of this approximation, we develop some refined microlocal arguments in h-dependent small regions

Modes of transmission and stability of Rice yellow mottle virus

Rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) is the most important rice virus in Africa. We examined RYMV transmission via soil and water contaminated with RYMV-infected rice plants and by serial cutting with RYMV-contaminated scissors. Transmission of RYMV via dried rice straw kept at 27°C was also examined. The results showed the virus could be transmitted via soil and water, and by scissors. Rice straw that was RYMV-infected was not infective if it was dried and was kept longer than 42 days. By insect transmission experiments and ELISA, long-horned grasshoppers (Conocephalus spp.) were found to be a possible vector of RYMV in Uganda