Deer impacts on woodlands and forests are not confined to Europe. Significant deer impacts on forests have been recorded in New Zealand (Stewart and Burrows, 1989), Japan (Shimoda et al., 1994), and the United States (Alverson et al., 1988; Stromayer and Warren, 1997; Waller and Alverson, 1997). This paper focuses on deer impacts in North America, and draws on my own research over the past 5 ye...

To test for antimicrobial activity, crude extractions of the fruit of Barringtonia edulis were performed using traditional Hawaiian implements of a stone grinder (poi pounder) and a wooden board. The Kirby-Bauer method was used to test the antimicrobial properties of these extractions against Staphylococcus aureus, Bacillus subtilis, Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Candida albican...

The Robot World Cup Initiative (RoboCup) is an international joint project to promote science and technology on intelligence robotics, AI, and related field with specific goal of building fully humanoid robot that can win human world cup champion by 2050, and to apply technologies developed in this activity to socially significant issues such as rescue, and for next generation industries. This ...

First, we classify all natural operators T |M fn T (0,0)(Jr T ∗) transforming vector fields to functions on the r -jet prolongation Jr T ∗ of the cotangent bundle. Next, we classify natural operators T ∗|M fn T ∗(Jr T ∗) lifting 1-forms from n-manifolds to Jr T ∗. As an application we prove that for r ≥ 1 there is no canonical symplectic structure on Jr T ∗. We also solve similar problems with ...

The essential oil from the leaves of Juglans regia L. (Juglandaceae) growing wild in Kashmir (India) was obtained by hydro-distillation and analysed during different stages of growth ranging from April to October. The analysis was carried out by a combination of capillary GC-FID and GC-MS analytical techniques. Both qualitative and quantitative differences were observed in the essential oil col...

Studies were carried out to determine if the release of atrial natriuretic factor (ANF) is altered in the inbred Dahl salt-sensitive (SS/Jr) rat. Isolated heart-lung preparations of prehypertensive young SS/Jr rats (6-8 weeks of age) and age-matched inbred Dahl salt-resistant (SR/Jr) rats were used. At this relatively young age the blood pressure difference between strains (SS/Jr, 108 +/- 3 mm ...

In this paper, we show that for a shifted complex :Jr ~ 2 with respect to a poset P with minimum element 0 and an intersecting subfamily ~ ~ :Jr, #~ ~ #{FE:Jr;OEF}. We denote the set {1,2, .. ,n} by [n], the family of all subsets of a set X by 2x , #F denotes the number of elements of a set F. Let :Jr be a family of subsets of [n], i.e., :Jr = {F1, .. ,Fm } where F1 Fm are distinct subsets of [...

BACKGROUND During neurocardiogenic reaction provoked by tilt testing (TT), different arrhythmias such as sinus bradycardia, sinus arrest, atrioventricular block or junctional rhythm or beats (JR) may occur. The characteristics of the JR during neurocardiogenic reaction have not yet been systematically assessed. It is not known whether the presence of JR during neurocardiogenic reaction is relat...