We found previously that neural responses to ethanol and the dopamine D2 receptor (D2) agonist 2,10,11-trihydroxy-Npropylnorapomorphine hydrobromide (NPA) involve both protein kinase C ( PKC) and cAMP-dependent protein kinase A (PKA). However, little is known about the mechanism underlying ethanoland D2-mediated activation of PKC and the relationship to PKA activation. In the present study, we ...

In this study, a circulating fluidized bed of 125 mm diameter and 1800 mm height was used to find the combustion characteristics of olive cake (OC) produced in Turkey. Olive cake alone and olive cake+lignite coal mixtures were burned separately. Various olive cake/lignite coal ratios were tried. A suitable feeding mechanism of olive cake to the bed was developed. On-line concentrations of O2, S...

The olive fly, Bactrocera oleae (Rossi), a serious threat to the olive crop worldwide, displays ovipositon preference for some olive cultivars but the causes are still unclear. In the present work, three Portuguese olive cultivars with different susceptibilities to olive fly (Cobrançosa, Madural, and Verdeal Transmontana) were studied, aiming to determine if the olive volatiles are implicated i...

We report here the complete and annotated genome sequence of the plant-pathogenic bacterium Xylella fastidiosa subsp. pauca strain De Donno. This strain was recovered from an olive tree severely affected by olive quick decline syndrome (OQDS), a devastating olive disease associated with X. fastidiosa infections in susceptible olive cultivars.

The olive has a history almost as long as that of Western civilization and has been looked upon as a sign of hope, peace, and sacredness. Olive oil, extracted from the olive, is the principal source of dietary fat in the Mediterranean basin. The composition differs from that of other dietary fats in that olive oil is rich in monounsaturated fatty acids. Even other than as a source of monounsatu...

BACKGROUND Olive oil and its minor constituents have been recommended as important dietary therapeutic interventions in preventive medicine. However, a question remains to be addressed: what are the effects of olive oil and its phenolic compounds on obesity-induced cardiac metabolic changes? METHODS Male Wistar rats were divided into two groups (n = 24/group): (C) receiving standard-chow; (Ob...

Production from crops of pome, stone fruit, nut, berry citrus, grapevine, and olive is increasingly threatened by fungal trunk diseases (FTD). These the consequent production losses are major problems. Many fungi (including Botryosphaeriaceae, Calosphaeriaceae, Diaporthaceae, Diatrypaceae, Nectriaceae, Phaeomoniellaceae, Pleosporaceae, Togniniaceae, Valsaceae) infect host wood, mainly through w...

Virgin olive oil is the juice from the olive drupe, a produce that usually features high 6 quality. However, virgin olive oils produced in different regions of the world suffer from 7 defects, most of them of sensory nature. The largest amount of olive oil in which some 8 organoleptic defect is present matches to the Virgin Olive Oil (VOO) class. The causes 9 leading to sensory defects in virgi...

In this paper, we describe a dynamic control algorithm that allows a humanoid character to swim through a fluid. The swimming is physically-based, whereby the character applies simulated muscle forces in order to drive the body through the motions of a breaststroke. The interaction between the moving body parts and a fluid dynamics system results in drag forces that cause the swimmer’s body to ...

Physically-based animation techniques enable more realistic and accurate animation to be created. Such approaches require the creation of a complex simulation model that, for computer graphics applications, can efficiently produce realistic-looking animations. We present a process to automatically create animatable nonconforming hexahedral finite element (FE) simulation models of facial soft ti...