Parameters of the optimal plant density of winter rape for successful overwintering in the Non-Chernozem zone

To obtain high yields of winter rapeseed seeds in the Non-Chernozem zone, it is necessary to provide conditions for good wintering. The studies were carried out in order to establish the optimal plant density of the zoned variety Severyanin. It was found that when sowing in rows with a row spacing of 25 cm, winter rape plants develop better, form a rosette of leaves with a lower location of the growing point, form a smaller amount of aboveground mass per unit of roots, which increases the safety of plants in winter by 2.5-4.3%. period under extreme conditions. The study of the dynamics of the plant density of winter rapeseed at different seeding rates showed that during the growing season, self-thinning of cenosis occurs. On average, over the years of research, plants overwintered better in variants with a lower stand density. With an increase in the seeding rate, the completeness of seedlings, the safety of plants in the autumn period, overwintering and the safety of plants in the year of harvesting for seeds decreased. The most optimal conditions for the preservation of plants for harvesting are provided at low seeding rates: with a row sowing with a row spacing of 25 cm with a seeding rate of 0.7-1.0 million pieces / ha, with an inter-row sowing (row spacing of 25 cm) - 0.5 million pcs / ha of germinating seeds: With the over-row sowing, the safety of plants for harvesting was higher than with the row method by 9-25%.

Development and Performance Evaluation of a Precise Application System for Liquid Starter Fertilizer while Sowing Maize

At present, liquid starter fertilizer (LSF) application technologies experience problems with low fertilizer utilization efficiency. In this study, we adopted a method of precise application of LSF near the seeds on seed bed in point form during sowing. A precise application system that can detect seed information in real time and control the solenoid valve to open automatically was developed for this method. The LSF supply system and detection control system were studied in detail. Field experiments were conducted to evaluate the performance of the precise application system in terms of operation quality (qualified index of the length of the LSF, QIL; the amount of the LSF, FA; and qualified index of the distance between the seeds and the LSF, QID) at forward speeds of 4, 6, and 8 km/h and pressures of 0.10, 0.15, 0.20, 0.25, and 0.30 MPa. The results indicated that QIL was 96.4%, the range of FA was 1.34 to 13.86 mL, and QID was 82.6%, which signifies the developed system meets the demands of precise LSF application. This method achieves the target of improving fertilizer use efficiency and provides a reference for developing fertilization devices for precisely applying LSF.

The Pivot Roadmap: From Dreams to Reality

The objective of this report is to present an actionable programme to bring initial moonshot ideas into fully accomplishable projects, ready to be deployed. It comprises three parts. The first part, namely Section 2, provides a background and development avenues for three broad domains of Caribbean economies, namely electric vehicles, digital transformation, and tourism. The second part breaks down the realisation of moonshot ideas into steps using a comprehensive roadmap, which lays out, in sequential point-by-point form, how to steer the coherent long-term deployment of moonshot ideas into concrete actionable projects. Sections 3.1 (From Dreams to Deployment) and 3.2 (Overview of Sequential Tasks by Stakeholder Category) present this in detail. Finally, in the third part, Sections 3.3 and 3.4 define and illustrate the roadmap of moonshot ideas identified during the PIVOT Event. In elaborating these two sections, key emphasis was put on the tasks to be conducted during the preparedness phase (Phase 2 of the roadmap). The conclusion summarizes all dimensions of the roadmap into three illustrations, one for each domain, depicting all nine moonshots from the PIVOT Event.

$$\rho $$–Meson Form-factors in Point form of Poincaré-Invariant Quantum Mechanics

Form-factors investigation of $$\rho ^{\pm }$$ ρ ± –mesons was carried out within the framework of the relativistic quark model, based on point form of Poincaré-invariant quantum mechanics taking into account the internal structure of constituent quarks. It is shown that the parameters of the model obtained from the condition of the agreement of theoretical calculations with experimental data on leptonic decays for light $$\pi ^{\pm }$$ π ± — and $$\rho ^{\pm }$$ ρ ± –mesons lead to the results correlating with calculations in models based on light-front and instant forms of dynamics. The proposed scheme for the combined description of lepton transitions of pseudoscalar and vector mesons that is based on point form of dynamics, leads to the results on the magnetic moment of $$\rho ^{\pm }$$ ρ ± –meson correlating with the experimental data and other models.

A three-point form factor through five loops

We bootstrap the three-point form factor of the chiral part of the stress­tensor supermultiplet in planar $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 super-Yang-Mills theory, obtaining new results at three, four, and five loops. Our construction employs known conditions on the first, second, and final entries of the symbol, combined with new multiple-final-entry conditions, “extended-Steinmann-like” conditions, and near-collinear data from the recently-developed form factor operator product expansion. Our results are expected to give the maximally transcendental parts of the gg → Hg and H → ggg amplitudes in the heavy-top limit of QCD. At two loops, the extended-Steinmann-like space of functions we describe contains all transcendental functions required for four-point amplitudes with one massive and three massless external legs, and all massless internal lines, including processes such as gg → Hg and γ* → $$ q\overline{q}g $$ q q ¯ g . We expect the extended-Steinmann-like space to contain these amplitudes at higher loops as well, although not to arbitrarily high loop order. We present evidence that the planar $$ \mathcal{N} $$ N = 4 three-point form factor can be placed in an even smaller space of functions, with no independent ζ values at weights two and three.

Relaxed Modulus-Based Matrix Splitting Methods for the Linear Complementarity Problem

In this paper, we obtain a new equivalent fixed-point form of the linear complementarity problem by introducing a relaxed matrix and establish a class of relaxed modulus-based matrix splitting iteration methods for solving the linear complementarity problem. Some sufficient conditions for guaranteeing the convergence of relaxed modulus-based matrix splitting iteration methods are presented. Numerical examples are offered to show the efficacy of the proposed methods.