introduction: boron possesses widespread properties and is important for human and animal nutrition. since boron is rapidly bioavailable, the objective of the present study was to determine whether acute (hourly or daily), and weekly supplementationcould have any significant biological effects on the synthesis of steroids as well as inflammatory biomarkers. methods: eight male volunteers partic...

the single wheel tester is an experimental device used to measure wheel forces when studying the relation of soil and wheel in a soil bin or in the field. in the model under development, a special frame holding the test wheel is connected to a loading carriage by two pairs of vertical rails and four rollers to provide a floating connection. by applying a driving torque to the test wheel shaft, ...

boron toxicity is one of the most important disorders for plant cultivation in the arid and semi-arid regions. boron accumulation usually occurs in deeper soil layers due to leaching and therefore improvement of such a soil in this situation is difficult. an experiment was conducted to find out the effect of boron on the vegetative and physiological aspects of olive trees. six concentrations of...

The synthesis of organoboron compounds have attracted the attention synthetic community. In particular, molecules with C(sp2)-B bonds enable transformation to new C−C or C-heteroatom by well-established methodologies. Alkenyl boronates possibility for further conversion boron moiety functionalization double bond. This review gives an overview on recent methodologies selective preparation challe...

As attractive analogue of graphene, boron monolayers have been theoretically predicted. However, due to electron deficiency of boron atom, synthesizing boron monolayer is very challenging in experiments. Using first-principles calculations, we explore stability and growth mechanism of various boron sheets on Cu(111) substrate. The monotonic decrease of formation energy of boron cluster B(N) wit...

In this letter we extend previously established results for nested carbon nanocones to both nested boron nitride and carbon-boron nitride nanocones. Based purely on mechanical principles and classical mathematical modelling techniques, we determine the energetically favourable structures for nested boron nitride and carbon-boron nitride nanocones. While only three apex angles for boron nitride ...

effects of excess concentrations of boron on major cell wall components of tobacco cells(nicotiana tabacum l. cv. burley 21) were studied. pectin, xyloglucan, hydroxyproline-richglycoproteins (extensin), and arabinogalactan proteins were characterized. results showedthat increased boron supply resulted in significant decrease in cell and cell wall dry weights.also, high concentrations of boron ...

Apart from regular wheel wear such as decreasing wheel diameters and reduced flange thicknesses and heights, wheel flats (WF) and oval wheels (or OOR, Out-Of-Roundness) are the most common wheelset problems for railway vehicles. Within the FP7 Research Project “Saferail”, APT has developed an innovative wheelset monitoring system so-called “Wheel flat and Out of Roundness Monitoring (WORM) syst...