Acorns are an important wildlife food resource and seed source for oak regeneration. Most acorn production studies note wide and consistent differences in acorn productivity among individuals, but none clearly demonstrate determinants of productivity. Acorn production by black, northern red, scarlet, chestnut and white oak was measured from 1993 to 1997 in the southern Appalachians was measured...

Evaluation of probiotic and antifungal properties the predominant LAB isolated from fermented acorn (Quercus persica)

Consider two sequences generated by ",,+ i Mi"„<hn)hn*\ M'i"„+X,b„), where the a„ and b„ are positive and M and M' are means. The paper discusses the nine processes which arise by restricting the choice of M and M' to the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means, one case being that used by Archimedes to estimate it. Most of the paper is devoted to the arithmetic-harmonic mean, whose limit is e...

The sugar-binding specificities of C-type lectins isolated from marine invertebrates were investigated by frontal affinity chromatography (FAC) using 100 oligosaccharides. The lectins included BRA-2 and BRA-3, multiple lectins from the hemolymph of the acorn barnacle, Megabalanus rosa, and BRL from the acorn barnacle, Balanus rostatus. The diverse sugar-binding specificities of the C-type lecti...

We analyzed 29 years of acorn production by five species of California oaks (genus Quercus) to test the hypothesis that trees produce large seed crops prior to wet years, conditions facilitating seedling germination and survival. The mean crop of three of the species correlated positively and nontrivially with the following year’s rainfall, but none was statistically significant. Including the ...

This presents an overview of the significant achievements in Asynchronous Logic over the last quarter of a century at the University of Manchester. Including the Amulet (and subsequent) asynchronous Microprocessors, the synthesis tools Balsa and Teak, the MARBLE and Chain on-chip Interconnects, together with research arising from external collaborations with the University of Newcastle. 1 Pre-h...

Any area surrounded by three mutually touching circles is called a skewed arbelos. The twin circles of Archimedes in the ordinary arbelos can be generalized to the skewed arbelos. The existence of several pairs of twin circles, under certain conditions, is demonstrated.

In this paper we obtain a weakness in the design specification of ACORN, which is a competitor of CAESAR competition. We show that there exists a probabilistic linear relation between message bits and ciphertext bits, which holds with probability greater than 12 . This is the first paper which finds a probabilistic linear relation between message and corresponding ciphertext bits of ACRON, and ...

Steve Anderson is the CEO of Preceptis Medical, Inc, a medical device ENT start-up developing tools and procedures, which allow pediatric tympanostomy surgery to be performed without the risk of general anesthesia or the costs associated with an OR. Prior to this position, he was the President of Acorn Cardiovascular, Inc., a medical device manufacturer developing life-sustaining therapies for ...