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I. Pasture and Forage Plants for South Dakota II. Feeding Dairy Cows III. Flies IV. The Artesian Waters of South Dakota V. Some Destructive Insects VI. Elements of Prairie Horticulture
I. Pastuire and Forage Plants for South Dakota II. Feeding Dairy Cows III. Flies IV. The Artesian Waters of South Dakota V. Some Destructive Insects VI. Elements of Prairie Horticultur
Phylogenetic Analyses of Two Mitochondrial Metabolic Genes Sampled in Parallel from Angiosperms Find Fundamental Interlocus Incongruence
Plant molecular phylogeneticists have supported an analytical approach of combining loci from different genomes, but the
combination of mitochondrial sequences with chloroplast and nuclear sequences is potentially problematic. Low substitution rates
in mitochondrial genes should decrease saturation, which is especially useful for the study of deep divergences. However, individual
mitochondrial loci are insuffi ciently informative, so that combining congruent loci is necessary. For this study atp1 and
cox1 were selected, which are of similar lengths, encode components of the respiratory pathway, and generally lack introns. Thus,
these genes might be expected to have similar functional constraints, selection pressures, and evolutionary histories. Strictly parallel
sampling of 52 species was achieved as well as six additional composite terminals with representatives from the major angiosperm
clades. However, analyses of the separate loci produced strongly incongruent topologies. The source of the incongruence
was investigated by validating sequences with questionable affi nities, excluding RNA-edited nucleotides, deleting taxa with unexpected
phylogenetic associations, and comparing different phylogenetic methods. However, even after potential artifacts were
addressed and sites and taxa putatively associated with confl ict were excluded, the resulting gene trees for the two mitochondrial
loci were still substantially incongruent by all measures examined. Therefore, combining these loci in phylogenetic analysis may
be counterproductive to the goal of fully resolving the angiosperm phylogeny
Using a Semantic Wiki for Documentation Management in Very Small Projects
International audienceThe emerging ISO/IEC 29110 standard Lifecycle profiles for Very Small Entities is targeted at very small entity (VSE) having up to 25 people, to assist them unlock the potential benefits of using software engineering standards. VSEs may use semantic web technologies to improve documentation management infrastructure and processes. We proposed to use a semantic wiki for documentation management based on an identification scheme inspired from an IFLA proposition called Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records. The document identification scheme allows documents to be managed by the internal resource management of the semantic wiki, hence benefiting from a straightforward but powerful version control. With few inputs of semantic annotations by VSE employees - through usable semantic forms and templates, the semantic wiki acts as a library catalog, and users can find, identify, select, obtain, and navigate resources
What is the origin of the Scottish populations of the European endemic Cherleria sedoides (Caryophyllaceae)?
Cherleria sedoides L. (Minuartia sedoides (L.) Hiern) is a montane perennial which, with some species in Minuartia sect. Spectabiles, is more closely related to Scleranthus than to other Minuartia species and is therefore best restored to the reinstated and redefined genus Cherleria. Reconstruction of the ancestral area of the clade containing C. sedoides suggests that it evolved in the Alps or the Balkan peninsula. The species now has an unusual distribution, being present in the mountains of southern Europe and Scotland but absent from the Arctic. Three historical scenarios that might have led to the presence of the species in Scotland are outlined and tested by a molecular analysis comparing Scottish populations with populations from the Pyrenees and the Alps. The sampled populations show little variation in internal transcribed spacer (ITS)/external transcribed spacer (ETS) but much more in cpDNA. The latter reveals a major division between some Alpine material and the other Alpine, Pyrenean and Scottish plants. Once the anomalous Alpine haplotypes are excluded, Scottish populations are at least as variable as those from the Alps and Pyrenees, and are closely related to both. We conclude that they have not undergone a long period of isolation, nor have they originated by recent, long-distance dispersal from the Alps or Pyrenees. They appear to be derived from a metapopulation that was probably widespread at the last glacial maximum (LGM) and gave rise to the Alpine, Pyrenean and Scottish plants
Effects of finite arm-length of LISA on analysis of gravitational waves from MBH binaries
Response of an interferometer becomes complicated for gravitational wave
shorter than the arm-length of the detector, as nature of wave appears
strongly. We have studied how parameter estimation for merging massive black
hole binaries are affected by this complicated effect in the case of LISA. It
is shown that three dimensional positions of some binaries might be determined
much better than the past estimations that use the long wave approximation. For
equal mass binaries this improvement is most prominent at \sim 10^5\sol.Comment: 10 pages, 3 figures, to appear in Phys.Rev.
3D N = 1 SYM Chern-Simons theory on the Lattice
We present a method to implement 3-dimensional N = 1 SUSY Yang-Mills theory
(a theory with two real supercharges containing gauge fields and an adjoint
Majorana fermion) on the lattice, including a way to implement the Chern-Simons
term present in this theory. At nonzero Chern-Simons number our implementation
suffers from a sign problem which will make the numerical effort grow
exponentially with volume. We also show that the theory with vanishing
Chern-Simons number is anomalous; its partition function identically vanishes.Comment: v2, minor changes: expanded discussion in section III c, typos
corrected, 17 pages, 9 figure
Observational Constraints on the Modified Gravity Model (MOG) Proposed by Moffat: Using the Magellanic System
A simple model for the dynamics of the Magellanic Stream (MS), in the
framework of modified gravity models is investigated. We assume that the galaxy
is made up of baryonic matter out of context of dark matter scenario. The model
we used here is named Modified Gravity (MOG) proposed by Moffat (2005). In
order to examine the compatibility of the overall properties of the MS under
the MOG theory, the observational radial velocity profile of the MS is compared
with the numerical results using the fit method. In order to obtain
the best model parameters, a maximum likelihood analysis is performed. We also
compare the results of this model with the Cold Dark Matter (CDM) halo model
and the other alternative gravity model that proposed by Bekenstein (2004), so
called TeVeS. We show that by selecting the appropriate values for the free
parameters, the MOG theory seems to be plausible to explain the dynamics of the
MS as well as the CDM and the TeVeS models.Comment: 14 pages, 3 Figures, accepted in Int. J. Theor. Phy
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Raman spectroscopies in shock-compressed materials
Spontaneous Raman spectroscopy, stimulated Raman scattering and coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering have been used to measure temperatures and changes in molecular vibrational frequencies for detonating and shocked materials. Inverse Raman and Raman induced Kerr effect spectroscopies have been suggested as diagnostic probes for determining and phenomenology of shock-induced chemical reactions. The practicality, advantages, and disadvantages of using Raman scattering techniques as diagnostic probes of microscopic phenomenology through and immediately behind the shock front of shock-compressed molecular systems are discussed
A comparison of system monitoring methods, passive network monitoring and kernel instrumentation
This paper presents the comparison of two methods of system monitoring, passive network monitoring and kernel instrumentation. The comparison is made on the basis of passive network monitoring being used as a replacement for kernel instrumentation in some situations. Despite the fact that the passive network monitoring technique is shown to perform poorly as a direct replacement for kernel instrumentation, this paper indicates the areas where passive network monitoring could be used to the greatest advantage and presents methods by which the discrepancies between results of the two techniques could be minimised
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