TopCross: A New Crop Production Team

One of the biggest limitations in significantly altering the composition of corn grain to meet the needs of the end-user has been achieving these goals while maintaining commercially acceptable yield and agronomics in the resulting varieties. The purpose of this presentation is to describe a novel com production method developed by DuPont Quality Grains. This method ... the TopCross® Grain Production System ... has enabled the efficient production of high oil com on a large and growing commercial scale. In order to do this, it is first necessary to describe some fundamentals of com inheritance and reproduction

American Bicentennial Historical Playing Card Deck box

American Bicentennial Historical Playing Card Deck, made by U.S. Games Systems. Includes deck of cards (3948 A), booklet (3948 B), and two-piece box (3948 C) with text, etc. This object is the box for objects 3948A and 3948B. This object comes in three parts. The object is blue with white lettering. There is also a red plastic middle which holds objects 3948A and 3948B in place. created by Stuart R. Kaplan (1932-present), illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (American, 1913\u271985), published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. (American, 1968-present)https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/4680/thumbnail.jp

American Bicentennial Historical Playing Card Deck

American Bicentennial Historical Playing Card Deck, made by U.S. Games Systems. Includes deck of cards (3948 A), booklet (3948 B), and two-piece box (3948 C) with text, etc. There is a total of 56 cards. Each card has a portait of prominent figure from American history. created by Stuart R. Kaplan (1932-present), illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (American, 1913\u271985), published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. (American, 1968-present)https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/4683/thumbnail.jp

The American Historical Playing Card Deck

American Bicentennial Historical Playing Card Deck, made by U.S. Games Systems. Includes deck of cards (3948 A), booklet (3948 B), and two-piece box (3948 C) with text, etc. This object is a small red book with seal of the United States of America on the front cover. On the back of the book, there are four images of prominent figures from American history including: Ulysses S. Grant, George Washington and others. created by Stuart R. Kaplan (1932-present), illustrated by Douglas Gorsline (American, 1913\u271985), published by U.S. Games Systems, Inc. (American, 1968-present)https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/4660/thumbnail.jp

Unification and Grammatical Theory

This paper informally presents a new view of grammar that has emerged from a number of distinct but related lines of investigation in theoretical and computational linguistics. Under this view, many current linguistic theories—-including Lexical-Functional Grammar (LFG), Generalized Phrase Structure Grammar (GPSG), Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), and categorial grammar (CG)—-fall within a general framework of unification grammar. In such theories the linguistic objects under study are associated with linguistic information about the objects, which information is modeled by mathematical objects called feature structures. Linguistic phenomena are modeled by constraints of equality over the feature structures; the fundamental operation upon the feature structures, allowing solution of such systems of equations, is a simple merging of their information content called unification. Although differences among these theories remain great, this new appreciation of the common threads in research paradigms previously thought ideologically incompatible provides an opportunity for a uniting of efforts and results among these areas, as well as the ability to compare previously incommensurate claims.Engineering and Applied Science

American Historical Playing Cards

Playing card set in decorative box. Cards have portraits of famous Americans. Accompanied by booklet.https://scholarsjunction.msstate.edu/fvw-artifacts/2928/thumbnail.jp

A Letter of Intent to Install a milli-charged Particle Detector at LHC P5

In this LOI we propose a dedicated experiment that would detect "milli-charged" particles produced by pp collisions at LHC Point 5. The experiment would be installed during LS2 in the vestigial drainage gallery above UXC and would not interfere with CMS operations. With 300 fb$^{-1}$ of integrated luminosity, sensitivity to a particle with charge $\mathcal{O}(10^{-3})~e$ can be achieved for masses of $\mathcal{O}(1)$ GeV, and charge $\mathcal{O}(10^{-2})~e$ for masses of $\mathcal{O}(10)$ GeV, greatly extending the parameter space explored for particles with small charge and masses above 100 MeV.Comment: 19 pages, 7 figure

Unified Theories with U(2) Flavor Symmetry

A general operator expansion is presented for quark and lepton mass matrices in unified theories based on a U(2) flavor symmetry, with breaking parameter of order $V_{cb} \approx m_s/m_b \approx \sqrt{m_c/m_t}$. While solving the supersymmetric flavor-changing problem, a general form for the Yukawa couplings follows, leading to 9 relations among the fermion masses and mixings, 5 of which are precise. The combination of grand unified and U(2) symmetries provides a symmetry understanding for the anomalously small values of $m_u/m_c$ and $m_c/m_t$. A fit to the fermion mass data leads to a prediction for the angles of the CKM unitarity triangle, which will allow a significant test of these unified U(2) theories. A particular SO(10) model provides a simple realization of the general operator expansion. The lighter generation masses and the non-trivial structure of the CKM matrix are generated from the exchange of a single U(2) doublet of heavy vector generations. This model suggests that CP is spontaneously broken at the unification scale --- in which case there is a further reduction in the number of free parameters.Comment: 31 pages, 3 .eps figures include