the acorn is an edible nut of oak trees (quercus spp.) that had been used for human nutrition for a long time. besides nutritious components, acorn contains considerable amounts of phenolic substances. at present study, two different varieties of iranian oak acorns, namely, q. branti var. persica (qb) and qcastaneifolia var. castaneifolia (qc) were used. the total polyphenol content measured in...

We investigated arboreal removal and insect damage to acorns in an undisturbed oak woodland in central coastal California. Arboreal seed removal was determined for four to eight individual Quercus lobata trees over a period of 14 years by comparing visual estimates of the acorn crop with the number of acorns caught in seed traps. Insect damage was assessed by sampling acorns from trees of all t...

Archimedes was the first to systematically find the centers of gravity of various solid bodies and to apply this concept in determining stable configurations of floating bodies. In this paper, we discuss an error in a proof developed by Archimedes that involves determining whether a uniform, spherical cap will float stably with its base horizontal in a liquid on a spherical Earth. We present a ...

The study of Russian dialectal vocabulary remains one the most pressing problems etymology. This article is devoted to origin and history a number dialect words. Namely, author provides revised explanations for some dialecticisms from already published issues Etymological Dictionary (говéд(т)ник, дохóрь, дóхта, сбрéндить), as well its unpublished (есáк, жёл, жерсть, жúмы). Most this material mi...

Barnacle adhesion underwater is an important phenomenon to understand for the prevention of biofouling and potential biotechnological innovations, yet so far, identifying what makes barnacle glue proteins 'sticky' has proved elusive. Examination of a broad range of species within the barnacles may be instructive to identify conserved adhesive domains. We add to extensive information from the ac...

ZEMAN JAROSLAV, HRBEK JAN, DRIMAJ JAKUB, PLHAL RADIM, KAMLER JIŘÍ, ADAMEC ZDENĚK, HEROLDOVÁ MARTA. 2016. Wild Boar Impact to the Natural Regeneration of Oak and Acorn Importance in its Diet. Acta Universitatis Agriculturae et Silviculturae Mendelianae Brunensis, 64(2): 579–585. In this study, the impact of wild boar on the natural regeneration of oak and importance of acorns in the wild boar di...

Some length-preserving operations on strings only permute the symbol positions in strings; such an operation X gives rise to a family {Xn}n≥2 of similar permutations. We investigate the structure and the order of the cyclic group generated by Xn. We call an integer n X-prime if Xn consists of a single cycle of length n (n ≥ 2). Then we show some properties of these X-primes, particularly, how X...

This report covers the work done in support of the DARPA Information Technology Office program in computer networking. Contributors to this effort include Prof. David L. Mills, graduate student Harish Nair and undergraduate research student John Conner. MS student Tamal Basu has graduated and taken a position at Acorn Networks. Phd student Qiong Li has graduated and taken a position with Philli...

Seventeen commercially available jet nebulizers from 15 commercial sources were studied (Acorn-I, Acorn-II, AquaTower, AVA-NEB, Cirrhus, Dart, DeVilbiss 646, Downdraft, Fan Jet, MB-5, Misty Neb, PARI LC JET, PARI-JET, Salter 8900, Sidestream, Updraft-II, Whisper Jet). All nebulizers were filled with 2 ml of saline solution plus 0.5 ml of albuterol and powered with the same source (DeVilbiss Pul...