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Electrical trees consist of visible permanent hoUow channels, resulting from decomposition of the material, and show up clearly in polyethylene and other translucent soHd dielectrics when examined with an optical microscope. Eresh, unstained water trees appear diffuse and temporary. Water trees consist of very fine paths along which moisture has penetrated under the action of a voltage gradient. Considerable force is required to effect this... 

The decomposition approach is used, it is necessary to represent the way in which the various task elements and other possible failures are combined to give the failure probability of the task as a whole. Generally, the most common form of representation is the event tree (see Section 5.7). This is the basis for THERP, which will be described in the next section. Fault trees are only used when discrete human error probabilities are combined with hardware failure probabiliHes in applications such as CPQRA (see Figure 5.2). 

During the final stage of the decomposition approach, the task element probabilities in the event tree are combined together using the rules described in Section 5.3.3 to give the overall task failure probability. At this stage, various corrections for dependencies among task elements may be applied. 

Although the actual cycle decomposition (as well as the tree structure) of a particular graph is determined exactly by the set of elementary divisors i(a ), much of the general form of the possible dynamics may be extracted from Pl x) itself. All graphs whf)se characteristic polynomials Pii=P Yi=i Pi AY (mod q), for. some fixed P ( / ), for example, mu.st share the following properties ... 

In areas where particular crops are grown continuously, decreases in production with time have been noted. The condition is usually species speciAc, and the disorders which result are frequently referred to as soil-sickness or replant problems. Fruit trees are especially sensitive and the problem has been encountered with apples, peaches, grapes, cherries, plums, and citrus. In most situations, phytotoxicity has been related to the formation of toxic materials as a consequence of the microbial decomposition of plant remains. 

Damage to epicuticular waxes Altered photosynthesis Increased water loss Accumulation of acidic anions Leaching of ions, sugars, etc. Mineral imbalances Altered metabolism Increased susceptibility to winter freezing injury Death of fine roots Destabilization of trees Reduced water/mineral uptake Reduced water uptake Cations leached below roots Accumulation of acidic anions Altered structure/texture Altered microflora Reduced litter decomposition Altered N transformations Solubilization of metal ions... 

In Section II we defined the trend of a measured variable as a strictly ordered sequence of scaling episodes. Since each scaling episode is defined by its bounding inflexion points, it is clear that the extraction of trends necessitates the localization of inflexion points of the measured variable at various scales of the scale-space image. Finally, the interval tree of scale (see Section II) indicates that there is a finite number of distinct sequences of inflexion points, implying a finite number of distinct trends. The question that we will try to answer in this section is, How can you use the wavelet-based decomposition of signals in order to identify the distinct sequences of inflexion points and thus of the signal s trends ... 

Grasses and other similar plants, which may be annual, biennial, or perennial in their growth habit, do not have woody components, but also add leaves and stems to the soil each year. These leaves and stems decompose over a 1-year period, adding organic matter to the soil surface. Often these leaves seem to decompose faster than tree leaves however, in all cases, the rate of decomposition will largely depend on both the characteristics of the plant material and local environmental conditions. 

What to do Grow resistant apples such as Ellison s Orange and Court Pendu Plat. Mow the ground below trees to shred leaves and speed decomposition, or collect leaves and compost them. Cut out and burn diseased twigs. Prune apple trees to maintain good air circulation. 

In a conifer forest, litter production and decomposition release about 80% of the total minerals in the biomass of the stand the remainder is retained in the living parts of the tree. Standing dead material is not considered litter. 

The decomposition of tree leaves is not entirely confined to the litter layer on the forest floor. Leaves and needles are invaded by bacteria and fungi even as they grow these microorganisms may be either pathogens or saprophytes. ... 

The concentration of plant nutrients in litter influences both the rate of decomposition and the amount of nutrients released after decomposition. Ozone-injured foliage may be deficient in inorganic nutrients, because of the concomitant decay of the root systems of chronically injured trees. ... 

Jensen, V. Decomposition of angiosperm tree leaf litter, pp. 69-104. In C. H. Dickinson, and G. J. F. Pugh, Eds. Biology of Plant Litter Decomposition. Vol. 1. New York Academic Press, 1974. 

A beauty of thermodynamics is that it is not concerned with the detailed processes, and its predictions are independent of such details. Thermodynamics predicts the extent of a reaction when equilibrium is reached, but it does not address or care about reaction mechanism, i.e., how the reaction proceeds. For example, thermodynamics predicts that falling tree leaves would decompose and, in the presence of air, eventually end up as mostly CO2 and H2O. The decomposition could proceed under dry conditions, or under wet conditions, or in the presence of bacteria, or in a pile of tree leaves that might lead to fire. The reaction paths and kinetics would be very different under these various conditions. Because thermodynamics does not deal with the processes of reactions, it cannot provide insight on reaction mechanisms. 

Usual procedures for the selection of the common best basis are based on maximum variance criteria (Walczak and Massart, 2000). For instance, the variance spectrum procedure computes at first the variance of all the variables and arranges them into a vector, which has the significance of a spectrum of the variance. The wavelet decomposition is applied onto this vector and the best basis obtained is used to transform and to compress all the objects. Instead, the variance tree procedure applies the wavelet decomposition to all of the objects, obtaining a wavelet tree for each of them. Then, the variance of each coefficient, approximation or detail, is computed, and the variance values are structured into a tree of variances. The best basis derived from this tree is used to transform and to compress all the objects. 

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