Ferula gumosa  Boiss is one of the natural plants of Iran whose exudates (Barijeh) can be used in food industry. In the present study the properties of the gum extracted from tubers of Ferula gumosa were examined. For this purpose, gum was extracted from crude exudates by alcoholic extraction with 90% (v/v) ethanol. The purity of gum was relatively high, and it was composed mostly ...

We have theoretically proposed and experimentally demonstrated that two EPR photon pairs can be transformed into a threephoton W state by local operation and classical communication (LOCC). The fidelity of the final state to the ideal W state was 0.778±0.043. The obtained expectation value of the witness operator for distinguishing between the three-photon W state and bi-separable states was −0...

123 In the last several years, offshore outsourcing of software development has grown considerably. As just 1 Jeanne Ross was the accepting Senior Editor for this article. 2 The authors would like to thank the staff of the companies who participated in the research for their generous time and insight into the uncharted territory of offshore software development. We would especially like to than...

The article describes the quantitative clonal growth of mouse bone marrow cells in vitro using an agar culture system. Neonatal mouse kidney or whole embryo cells were used as feeder cells to stimulate colony development. The colonies were shown to be composed of large mononuclear cells probably phagocytosing agar and cells typical of the early stages of development of mouse granulocytes. [The ...

A 6 week study was conducted to assess the effects of wood betony (WB), Stachys lavandulifolia extract on growth performance, hematological and biochemical parameters of common carp, Cyprinus carpio. Different levels of the WB extract (0, 2, 4 and 8 % weight per weight, W/W, 0WB, 2WB, 4WB and 8WB) in the diet were used. The results showed that final weight and weight gain were significantly imp...

Let G be a graph and F ⊆ V (G). Then F is called an induced forest of G if 〈G〉 contains no cycle. The forest number, f(G), of G is defined by f(G) := max{|F | : F is an induced forest of G}. It was proved by the second author in [6] that if G is an r-regular graph of order n, then f(G) ≤ b nr−2 2(r−1)c. It was also proved that the bound is sharp by constructing an r-regular graph H of order n w...

Low energy plasma treatment of Nafion® membranes for PEM fuel cells Devin Ramdutt a,∗, Christine Charles a, Jessica Hudspeth a, Bradley Ladewig b, Thomas Gengenbach c, Rod Boswell a, Andrew Dicks b, Pascal Brault d a Space Plasma, Power and Propulsion (SP3), Research School of Physical Sciences and Engineering, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 0200, Australia b ARC Centre for F...