During the 1995 harvest season Pinot noir development during ripening was monitored at Woodhall Vineyards (WHV) in Alpine and at three commercial vineyard sites at Croft (CR) Vineyards in Monmouth, Rex Hill Kings Ridge Vineyard (RHKR) in Newberg, and Erath Vineyards (ER) in Dundee. Cluster samples (25) were taken weekly...
Over the last several years many Oregon winemakers have expressed concerns over the frequency of 'stuck' and sluggish yeast fermentations. These problems are probably due to low nitrogen status of musts at harvest. Malolactic fermentations may also be affected by low levels of fermentable nitrogen in juice and wine. Low...
The actively subsiding North China sedimentary basin is associated with an unusually high level of seismic activity. This oil- and gas-producing basin has been the site of nine large (M ≥ 7), destructive earthquakes since 1600 A. D. An analysis of faulting during the Tangshan earthquake sequence, which includes some...
During exploration of imaging photosynthetic fluorimetry of Arabidopsis
thaliana mutants, we discovered a novel phenomenon wherein photosynthetic
efficiency (defined in Ning et al., 1995) is shown to plot in discrete groups. This
exploration resulted first in the development of a spectrofluorometric method that
apparently allows for in vivo observation of...
A sophisticated computer program is developed to analyze flow linear
dichroism data on nucleic acids for individual base inclinations. Measured
absorption and linear dichroism data for synthetic AT and GC polymers and
natural DNAs are analyzed. The reliability of the program is tested on data for
the synthetic polymers, and...
Homeodomain transcription factors control developmental processes. They pattern body formation, specify cell lineages and switch the onset of gene regulatory cascades. Pitx2, a bicoid-related homeodomain transcription factor, is asymmetrically expressed in the left lateral plate mesoderm and mesoderm-derived tissues. Pitx2 null mice are characterized by failure of body wall closure,...
The objectives of this study are to evaluate the effects of manipulating soil moisture
and nitrogen availability using different approaches, including supplemental irrigation,
nitrogen addition to the soil or to the leaves, and the elimination of competition for water and
nutrients between the ground cover and the grapevines by tilling....
The Machine Learning (ML) algorithms are increasingly explored in varies of fields including designing and optimizing computer systems. Recent research, such as optimizing memory/cache prefetching by ML training or predicting traffic pattern in throughput processors, also exhibits a promising future of introducing ML into computer system design and optimization. Throughput...
One of the motives of China's Economic Reform is to bring Western
management techniques to China to further economic development. The miraculous
success of the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) in Shenzhen, Guangdong has attracted
many foreign investors who gladly bring their management expertise. This thesis looks
at small, medium and...