Winter Stone

Protecting Stone Fruit Flower Buds from Winter Freeze Damage

Flower buds of peach, apricot, and sweet cherry are killed by low temperatures during winter and spring. Frost protection measures used commonly in the spring are applied to freeze protection during the winter in the Yakima Valley of Washington. Critical temperatures change rapidly during winter. To succeed, winter freeze protection requires adequate inversions, equipment that operates at tempe...

Winter at the alpine timberline. Why does embolism occur in norway spruce but not in stone pine?

Conifers growing at the alpine timberline are exposed to frost drought and freeze-thaw cycles during winter-stress factors known to induce embolism in tree xylem. The two dominant species of the European Central Alps timberline were studied: Norway spruce (Picea abies [L.] Karst) and stone pine (Pinus cembra), which usually reaches higher altitudes. We hypothesized to find embolism only at the ...

Stone Composition in Patients Who Undergo Renal Stone Surgery: Review of 423 Stone Analyses in Southern Iran

Stone Algebras

A range of algebras between lattices and Boolean algebras generalise the notion of a complement. We develop a hierarchy of these pseudo-complemented algebras that includes Stone algebras. Independently of this theory we study filters based on partial orders. Both theories are combined to prove Chen and Grätzer’s construction theorem for Stone algebras. The latter involves extensive reasoning ab...

‘Stone’-blindness

A 15-year-old boy with juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA) and end-stage CKD was referred to us for renal replacement therapy. He was previously under follow-up with a paediatric unit. JRA was diagnosed at the age of 3/2 years when he developed polyarthritis and uveitis. He received steroids, sulphasalazine, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, calcium supplements (calcium phosphate) and vita...