Sieve elements are one of the least understood cell types in plants. Translocation velocities and volume flow to supply sinks with photoassimilates greatly depend on the geometry of the microfluidic sieve tube system and especially on the anatomy of sieve plates and sieve plate pores. Several models for phloem translocation have been developed, but appropriate data on the geometry of pores, pla...

It is of interest in cryptographic applications to obtain practical performance improvements for the discrete logarithm problem over prime fields Fp with p of size ≤ 500 bits. The linear sieve and the cubic sieve methods described in Coppersmith, Odlyzko and Schroeppel’s paper [3] are two practical algorithms for computing discrete logarithms over prime fields. The cubic sieve algorithm is asym...

three intrusive granitoid bodies from northwest saveh, central iran, are embedded in volcanic sedimentary rocks of the eocene,forming isolated small outcrops: khalkhab quartz monzodioritic units (sio2: ~52-57 wt %) to the northwest, neshveh granodioriticunits (sio2: ~62-71 wt %) to the northeast, and selijerd granodioritic units (sio2: ~63-69 wt %) to the southeast. the khalkhab unit iscomposed...

[1] The Orientale basin is a multiring impact structure on the western limb of the Moon that provides a clear view of the primary lunar crust exposed during basin formation. Previously, near-infrared reflectance spectra suggested that Orientale’s Inner Rook Ring (IRR) is very poor in mafic minerals and may represent anorthosite excavated from the Moon’s upper crust. However, detailed assessment...

Lithological, structural, metamorphic and geochronological data for the North China Craton enable its division into the Western and Eastern Blocks of Archean to Paleoproterozoic age separated by a north–south trending Paleoproterozoic orogenic belt: the Central Zone. The Central Zone is divisible into a series of lowto medium-grade granite–greenstone belts and high-grade metamorphic terrains co...

Study of melt inclusions (MIs) is a commonly applied method for defining the composition magmas present at depth prior to mixing, fractionation, and degassing. Our ability use data from MIs complicated by post-entrapment processes (PEP) that can modify their during transport eruption. Many PEP be reversed heating temperatures near those which MI its host were formed. However, process reversing ...

Plagioclase-rich reaction zones occur around numerous aluminous crustal xenoliths within a suite of Palaeogene sub-volcanic basic sheets on the Isle of Mull, NW Scotland. The xenoliths consist of a glassy core, containing mullite needles, generated from the melting of pelitic source rocks. Thick plagioclase mantles grew at the interface between the aluminous liquid and the enclosing basaltic ma...

The inferred crystallization history of the troctolitic Lower Zone of the Kiglapait Intrusion in Labrador is tested by melting mineral mixtures from the intrusion, made to yield the observed crystal compositions on the cotectic trace of liquid, plagioclase, and olivine. Melting experiments were made in a piston-cylinder apparatus, using graphite capsules at 5 kbar. Lower Zone assemblages crysta...

Deformation experiments were conducted with the intention of identifying how the mechanical behavior and deformation microstructures of a basalt are influenced by the presence of glass that can crystallize to metamorphic minerals or flow. A glassy plagioclase-rich basalt was tested for periods of up to 649 hours at temperatures of 675-875°C, a confining pressure of 1.0 GPa, and strain rates of ...

This paper reviews the use of texture analysis in studying the performance of hydrophilic matrices of highly soluble drugs and different types of excipients (i.e. water-soluble, water-insoluble and swellable, and water insoluble and non-swellable). Tablets were prepared by direct compression, and their swelling and erosion in presence of these different excipients were assessed with the help of...