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...

Survival of loblollypine seedlings stored in unheated buildings from four to nine weeks improved five to eight percentage points when they were immersed in water for an hour before planting. Soaking for a day gave essentially the same results, but soaking for one or two weeks reduced survival drastically. Brief immersion of s~edling packages every two weeks during storage impro~ed survival four...

Because of the complexity and fuzziness of the real world, it’s hard to build a dense knowledge system and reason in it with traditional methods. But man can deal with such tasks freely. Inspired by cognition and linguistics, a solution is advanced for reasoning dense knowledge in this paper. Objects and concepts are organized in the form of concept graph. Soaking the nodes in the graph until t...

Studies on organic seed fortification with Jatropha curcas and Pongamia pinnata using ‘Panchagavya ’at one, two, three, four and five per cent concentrations with the three different soaking durations revealed that Panchagavya at 2 and 5% with the soaking duration of 16 and 8 h were superior than the control and other concentrations in terms of germination and seedling vigour for Jatropha curca...

In order to investigate the mechanism of the reaction catalyzed by HindIII, structures of HindIII-DNA complexes with varying durations of soaking time in cryoprotectant buffer containing manganese ions were determined by the freeze-trap method. In the crystal structures of the complexes obtained after soaking for a longer duration, two manganese ions, indicated by relatively higher electron den...

The ubiquitous production of antibacterial toxins, such as bacteriocins, is an ecologically significant class of interbacterial interactions that have primarily evolved through their indirect fitness benefits to the producer. Bacteria release bacteriocins into the environment at a cost to individual cell, but individual bacteriocin-producing cells are unlikely to gain any direct benefit from th...

The physical and functional properties of seven parboiled rice cultivars (Jehlum, K-332, Koshar, Pusa-3, SKAU-345, SKAU-382 and SR-1) were investigated at different soaking temperatures of 60 ̊C, 70 ̊C and 80 ̊C and it was compared with the brown raw rice of the respective cultivars. Parboiling was observed to decrease L* value and increase a* and b* values. The hardness of rice was significantly ...

Effects of soaking and cooking methods on physicochemical characteristics, nutrients and antinutrients in twenty soybean genotypes were studied. Batches of seeds were soaked for 18 h in distilled water, 1% citric acid and 2% sodium bicarbonate solutions at room temperature and then boiled in water. Raw soybean genotypes exhibited 36.5-43.2% protein, 20.7-22.2% oil, 2.58.3% total soluble sugars,...

High throughput screening technologies such as acoustic droplet ejection (ADE) greatly increase the rate at which X-ray diffraction data can be acquired from crystals. One promising high throughput screening application of ADE is to rapidly combine protein crystals with fragment libraries. In this approach, each fragment soaks into a protein crystal either directly on data collection media or o...

In this research, effect of soaking time of a new synthesized hydroxyapatite-based bone cement in simulated body fluid (SBF) on the final phase and strength has been studied. The powder section of the cement has been synthesized by using tricalcium phosphate, calcium carbonate and anhydrous dicalcium phosphate. The liquid phase of the cement consists of different concentrations of NaH2PO4.2H2O....