According to an established concept, injury of the phloem triggers local sieve plate occlusion including callose-mediated constriction and, possibly, protein plugging of the sieve pores. Sieve plate occlusion can also be achieved by distant stimuli, depends on the passage of electropotential waves (EPWs), and is reversible in intact plants. The time-course of the wound response was studied in s...

Brain actin extracted from an acetone powder of chick brains was purified by a cycle of polymerization-depolymerization followed by molecular sieve chromatography. The brain actin had a subunit molecular weight of 42,000 daltons as determined by co-electrophoresis with muscle actin. It underwent salt-dependent g to f transformation to form double helical actin filaments which could be "decorate...

Asymptotically, the best known algorithms for solving the Shortest Vector Problem (SVP) in a lattice of dimension n are sieve algorithms, which have heuristic complexity estimates ranging from (4/3) down to (3/2) when Locality Sensitive Hashing techniques are used. Sieve algorithms are however outperformed by pruned enumeration algorithms in practice by several orders of magnitude, despite the ...

Perfluoroisobutyronitrile (C4F7N), an environment-friendly insulating gas, has excellent properties and the potential to be used in gas-insulated equipment when mixed with CO2. Selecting suitable adsorption materials adsorb decomposition products of C4F7N mixture can ensure safe stable operation personal safety operators electric power industry. The characteristics ZSM-5 molecular sieve on its ...

In this paper, we report efficient implementations of the linear sieve and the cubic sieve methods for computing discrete logarithms over prime fields. We demonstrate through empirical performance measures that for a special class of primes the cubic sieve method runs about two times faster than the linear sieve method even in cases of small prime fields of the size about 150 bits. We also prov...