Soil-root plate dimensions and structural root architecture were examined on 46-year-old Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) trees that had been mechanically uprooted. Rooting depth was restricted by a water table, and root system morphology had adapted to resist the wind movement associated with shallow rooting. The spread of the root system and the ratio of root mass to shoot mass (...

area display a striking variety. Ignoring many important differences among Western countries, Soviet orthodoxy reduces the variation to a crude dichotomy between "capitalist" and "socialist" political systems. Taking the United States as a paradigm, it indicts "capitalist" states as the home of malpractice suits and (so far as I know) completely disregards statutory schemes for review of compla...

In fact, we suspect that much more is true: we conjecture that this relative density does not change after restriction to any set of primes defined by a Cebatorevstyle Frobenius condition; that is, we expect that the sets (0.1) yield sets of primes of positive density which are quite different from those sets determined by Galois theoretic conditions. See Conjecture 1.2 for a precise statement....

We explore cosmology of intersecting braneworlds with induced gravity on the branes. We find the cosmological equations that control the evolution of a moving codimension one brane and a codimension two brane that sits at the intersection. We study the Friedmann equation at the intersection, finding new contributions from the six dimensional bulk. These higher dimensional contributions allow us...

We present a new application of Boundary String Field Theory: calculating the induced-gravity action on a D-brane. Using a simple quadratic tachyon potential to model a D-brane fluctuating in the flat target space we derive the effective action in terms of the extrinsic curvature to all orders in α′. We identify both the Born-Infeld structure as well as the Einstein-Hilbert term at order α′. Th...

measuring field gravity in sea due to the accelerations introduced via waves and movements to the gravity measuring systems has a low accuracy since according to einstein's equalent principle, gravimeter isn't able to separate the gravity acceleration from another acceleration. ship borne gravimetery observations by means of like oscillations and accelerations of the ship motion, and ...

W1 Thickening of small bowel folds (> 3 mm) can be caused by any process that increases the volume of fluid or cells in the submucosal or mucosal region (Table 1). The critical diagnostic observation is whether the general pattern of the thickening is regular or irregular. Regular thickening of small bowel folds, which are perpendicular to the bowel lumen and parallel to neighboring folds, is u...

Recent results support the notion that macromolecular 'crowding' enhances protein aggregation, at the expense of correct folding. The results can be rationalised in terms of kinetic competition between distinct processes, taking into account the relative influence of crowding on each process.

BACKGROUND The clinical features of asbestos-related diffuse pleural thickening (DPT) remain unclear. OBJECTIVES To clarify the association between radiological findings of DPT and respiratory function. METHODS Medical data from patients with asbestos-related DPT were collected, including their history of occupational or neighborhood asbestos exposure, initial symptoms, modified Medical Res...