Celastrus paniculatus Willd. is an important Ayurvedic medicinal plant gaining popularity in the primary healthcare systems and in herbal drug formulations. Its seed oil is reported to be beneficial in stimulating intellect and sharpening the memory. It has also been reported as nervine tonic, rejuvenant, anti-depressant, anti-oxidant, free radical scavenger, etc. Over-exploitation of the plant...

The objective of this study was to investigate the effects of different species of oil palm shell (OPS) coarse aggregates on the properties of high strength lightweight concrete (HSLWC). Original and crushed OPS coarse aggregates of different species and age categories were investigated in this study. The research focused on two OPS species (dura and tenera), in which the coarse aggregates were...

Baiano A., Terracone C., Viggiani I., Del Nobile M.A. (2014): Changes produced in extra-virgin olive oils from cv. Coratina during a prolonged storage treatment. Czech J. Food Sci., 32: 1–9. Extra-virgin oil is obtained from olive fruits only by mechanical means. The quality of extra-virgin olive oils is affected mainly by hydrolytic and oxidative reactions. For this reason, the commercial shel...

The perception and production of the mid-front Finnish vowels /i/, /e/, /y/, and /ø/ were investigated in fourteen Finnish-speaking subjects. In the perception experiment, synthesized long vowels were used as stimuli in order to identify category prototypes. For production, the subjects were asked to pronounce words including these vowels as short and long variants. This study introduces a new ...

In the definition of a crossed module $(T,G,rho)$, the actions of the group $T$ and $G$ on themselves are given by conjugation. In this paper, we consider these actions to be arbitrary and thus generalize the concept of ordinary crossed module. Therefore, we get the category ${bf GCM}$, of all generalized crossed modules and generalized crossed module morphisms between them, and investigate som...

Crop seeds are important sources of protein, oil, and carbohydrates for food, animal feeds, and industrial products. Recently, much attention has been paid to quality and functional properties of crop seeds. However, seed traits possess some distinct genetic characteristics in comparison with plant traits, which increase the difficulty of genetically improving these traits. In this study, diall...

A modificação química do material lamelar K 4 Nb 6 O 17 foi investigada sistematicamente através da reação de sua forma protônica (H 2 K 2 Nb 6 O 17 ) em soluções alcalinas contendo os cátions tetrametilamônio (tma), tetraetilamônio (tea) ou tetrapropilamônio (tpa). A quantidade intercalada corresponde a 50% (para tma), 25% (para tea) e 15% (para tpa) da carga negativa do H 2 K 2 Nb 6 O 17 (con...