On the work of Basil Gordon

Remembering Basil Gordon , 1931 – 2012

B asil Gordon, who made major research contributions to number theory, combinatorics, and algebra and who enhanced our understanding of Ramanujan’s remarkable identities, passed away on January 12, 2012, at the age of eighty. Gordon, who was a professor of mathematics at UCLA, was an outstanding teacher at all levels. His legacy will continue, owing to the impact of his fundamental work and to ...

New study to construct new solitary wave solutions for generalized sinh- Gordon equation

In this work, we successfully construct the new exact traveling wave solutions of the generalized Sinh–Gordon equation by new application of the homogeneous balance method. The idea introduced in this paper can be applied to other nonlinear evolution equations.

Modeling individual leaf area of basil (Ocimum basilicum) using different methods

Leaf area (LA) is a valuable key for plant physiological studies, therefore accurate and simple models for LA determination are important for many experimental comparisons. A greenhouse experiment was conducted from October 2009 to February 2010 in two basil cultivars (Purple Ruffles and Genovese) to estimate LA, leaf dry weight (DW), leaf fresh weight (DW) and leaf dimensions (width-W and leng...

Preparation of basil seed mucilage aerogels loaded with paclitaxel nanoparticles by the combination of phase inversion technique and gas antisolvent process

Objective(S): In this work, paclitaxel (PX), a promising anticancer drug, was loaded in the basil seed mucilage (BSM) aerogels by implementation of supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2) technology. Then, the effects of operating conditions were studied on the PX mean particle size (MPS), particle size distribution (PSD) and drug loading efficiency (DLE). <stron...

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