Pond-cypress, a deciduous conifer, is a dominant canopy species in depressional wetlands of the southeastern Coastal Plain (SCP). Extensive premature decline and death of pond-cypress trees in central Florida have been attributed to hydroperiod alterations due to excessive withdrawals of ground water from the Floridan aquifer. One factor identified in the decline process is basal decay, which m...

A new species of conifer was recently discovered in northern Vietnam. In a preliminary phylogenetic analysis of morphological data a possible sister species, Chamaecyparis nootkatensis (D. Don) Spach, was identified; however, because of the presumed phylogenetic remoteness of these two species to the remainder of the Cupressaceae, a new genus-Xanthocyparis-was described to accommodate both spec...

Recently Penskoi [J. Geom. Anal. 25 (2015), 2645–2666, arXiv:1308.1628] generalized the well known two-parametric family of Lawson tau-surfaces τr,m minimally immersed in spheres to a three-parametric family Ta,b,c of tori and Klein bottles minimally immersed in spheres. It was remarked that this family includes surfaces carrying all extremal metrics for the first non-trivial eigenvalue of the ...

We revisit extension results from continuous valuations to Radon measures for bifinite domains. In the framework of bifinite domains, the Prokhorov theorem (existence of projective limits of Radon measures) appears as a natural tool, and helps building a bridge between Measure theory and Domain theory. The study we present also fills a gap in the literature concerning the coincidence between pr...

Using the Internet for electronic business has become an area of action for the Australian Government. This paper presents research results from two regional areas which indicate that while most manufacturing SMEs use email, very few are involved in elecronic commerce activities. Major barriers are concern about security and privacy of transactions, cost of consultants, and lack of IT expertise...

The effect of storing cooked Bengal and Cypress milled rice at –13, 3, 20, and 36 °C on texture and degree of starch retrogradation was investigated. Cooked rice firmness increased, while stickiness decreased, during storage at –13 and 3 °C. Starch retrogradation, measured with a differential scanning calorimeter, was observed for both cultivars during storage at –13 and 3 °C, but not at 36 °C....

Chamaecyparis lawsonia, which brings beauty in parks and green space, is attacked by a variety of pathogenic agents specially fungi. In this study, some Chamaecyparis lawsonia available in parks that had disease symptoms were  sampled. After sample collection, in order to isolate fungal pathogens, cuts of the infected plant tissues were placed on PDA (potato dextrose agar) and later were put on...

An attempt was made to compare pollen counts determined by the volumetric method (Burkard sampler) with the gravitational method (Durham’s sampler) during the flowering seasons of evergreen coniferous trees such as (1) Japanese cedar, Cryptomeria japonica (abbreviation in this article: JC) and (2) Cupressaceae family, mainly hinoki cypress, Chamaecyparis obtusa (abbreviation: Cup). Observations...