Storing Acorns

ACORNS Acquisition of COmmunication and RecogNition Skills

Dissemination Level PU Public X PP Restricted to other programme participants (including the Commission Services) RE Restricted to a group specified by the consortium (including the Commission Services) CO Confidential, only for members of the consortium (including the Commission Services)

Anti-Inflammatory Oleanolic Triterpenes from Chinese Acorns.

Acorns play an important role in human history and are a source of food and recipes for many cultures around the world. In this study, eleven oleanolic triterpenes, one of which was novel, were isolated from Chinese acorns (Quercus serrata var. brevipetiolata). The chemical structure of the novel triterpene, which was identified as 2α,3β,19α-trihydroxy-24-oxo-olean-12-en-28-oic acid (1), was es...

Storing Arb

In natural gas markets, demand exhibits low price elasticity, while supply follows the market price; a phenomenon typically observed in markets for indispensable goods. A significant portion of gas consumption is due to heating and increasingly power generation, which sets a typical demand pattern: high in winter and summer ('high' seasons) and low in shoulder months ('low' seasons). Thus, the ...

From Little Acorns – The mental health service user movement

In the summer of 1985, service user activists from the United Kingdom met activists from other countries at the Mind/World Federation of Mental Health Congress in Brighton, a coming together that underlined the potential for collective campaigning in this country. That autumn’s Annual Mind Conference in Kensington Town Hall was the first national mental health event at which service users made ...

From little acorns to tall oaks: from boranes through organoboranes.