Mallow family

Kenaf and Roselle. These closely related bast fibers are derived from Hibiscus cannibinus and H sabdariffa (mallow family, Malvaceae), respectively. The fibers have other local names. Kenaf is grown for production in the People s Repubflc of China, Egypt, and regions of the former USSR roseUe is produced in India and Thailand. Plantation-grown kenaf is capable of growing from seedlings to 5 m at maturity in five months. It is reported to yield about 6—10 tons of dry matter per acre, nine times the yield of wood (13). 

Urena and Abutilon. These are less important vegetable fibers of a jute-like nature. Urena lobata (Cadillo) of the mallow family (Malvaceae) is a perennial that grows in Zaire and Brazil to a height of 4—5 m with stems 10—18 mm in diameter. Because of a lignified base, the stems are cut 20 cm above the ground. The plants are defoflated in the field and retted similarly to jute and kenaf. The retted material is stripped and washed and, in some cases. 

The cotton plant belongs to the natural order of the Malvaceae or, in colloquial language, the mallow family. It grows in sub-tropical climates, most of it being cultivated in Asia, Africa, America, Egypt, India, and other places. I liere are various species, and Gossypium herbaceum and Gossypium... 

The particular variety described by Linnaeus in his "Species Plantarium" (1753) was probably a double red which had wide distribution throughout China, the China Sea, Indian Ocean and the Tropics. It is a member of the Malvaceae or mallow family and is considered to be a "woody plant". More recently hybridization has resulted in spectacular colors and color combinations (for instance 5th Dimension hybridized by Gordon Howard is gun metal gray and blue) and new flower shapes. Some blooms measure over ten inches across (for instance Super Star hybridized by Gordon Howard). 

The genera in the family of Malvaceae (Table 1) include cotton, okra, and various types of mallow. 

MALLOW, Malvae folium and malvae flos is prepared from Altheae officinalis., L., family... 

All component-wise calculated families of models (PCA, PLS, etc) are by definition nested. Nestedness is computationally convenient, but not by definition a desirable property. Hierarchical relationships between models are convenient because they allow for a general framework. It is then possible to think of a continuum of models, with increasing complexity, where complexity is defined as the number of (free) parameters which have to be estimated. For example, model (5.1) is less complex than model (5.2) and if model (5.1) can describe the variation well, there is no need for the added complexity of model (5.2). Given a particular data set, it holds in general that adding complexity to the model increases the fit to the data but also increases the variance of the estimated parameters. Hence, there is an optimal model complexity balancing both properties. This is the basic rationale in many statistical tests of model complexity [Fujikoshi Satoh 1997, Mallows 1973], Hierarchy is a desirable property from a statistical point of view, because it makes comparisons between... 

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