Colour parameters of European beech were measured using CIELab system. 103 logs from 87 trees in 9 sites were cut into boards to study the variations of wood colour parameters. Both site and tree effect on colour were observed. Patterns of red heartwood occurrence were defined. When excepting red heartwood there was still a highly significant effect of site and tree; differences remained after ...

Canine distemper virus (CDV) has a wide host spectrum, and during the past years, distemper has been observed in species that were previously not considered to be susceptible. In this study, we investigated the prevalence of CDV-specific antibodies in red foxes (Vulpes vulpes) sampled between May and November 1997. About 9 to 13% of the Luxembourg red fox population is positive for antibodies a...

Phytochrome has been shown to be involved in the germination of seeds of a number of pine species as determined by the responses of these seeds to red and far-red irradiations (4, 7, 9). Nyman (7) found that even before imbibition, germination of Pinits silvestris seeds can be promoted by red irradiation. McLemore (5) found that germination of longleaf pine seed (P. palustris) can be repeatedly...

A heterogeneous implementation of the current LCG2/EGEE grid computing software is supported in the Grid-Ireland infrastructure. The porting and testing of the current software version of LCG2 is presented for different flavours of Linux, namely Red Hat 7.3, Red Hat 9 and Fedora Core 2. The GridBench micro-benchmarks developed in CrossGrid are used to compare the different platforms.

Single fibres were isolated from the 'red' and 'white' portions of the iliofibularis muscle from the desert iguana (Dipsosaurus dorsalis). Muscle fibres were chemically skinned with the non-ionic detergent Brij. 58. Maximal Ca-activated tensions at 40°C were 32-3 ± 1-5 Ncm~ for red and 33-0 ±2-1 Ncm" for white muscle fibres (mean ± S.E. mean). Unloaded contraction velocities (Vmax) were determi...

The 24 components of the relativistic spin tensor consist of 3 + 3 basic spin fields and 9 + 9 constitutive fields. Empirically only 3 basic spin fields and 9 constitutive fields are known. This empirem can be expressed by two spin axioms, one of them identifying 3 spin fields, and the other one 9 constitutive fields to each other. This identification by the spin axioms is material-independent ...

Our objective was to assess the effect of low-level laser therapy (LLLT) administered using a diode on growth processes human fibroblast cells involved in wound healing. Initially, studies were conducted at wavelengths 633, 520, and 450 nm with an irradiance 3 mW/cm2. The distance between light source culture plate cm. mechanism(s) action illumination studied by examining different determine re...

New high resolution observations of HCO J=1→0, HCN J=1→0, SO 22 → 11, and continuum with BIMA at 3.4 mm show that the NGC7538 IRS 9 cloud core is a site of active ongoing star formation. Our observations reveal at least three young bipolar molecular outflows, all ∼ 10,000 – 20,000 years old. IRS 9 drives a bipolar, extreme high velocity outflow observed nearly pole on. South of IRS 9 we find a ...

Basic Life Support (BLS) is an action to save lives when cardiac arrest occurs. Cardiac the number one cause of death in world. In Indonesia BLS knowledge still lacking. This study aims determine differences effectiveness conventional methods and explicit instruction on for Youth Red Cross members at SMAN 1 Ngimbang. Using pre-experimental (two group pre-test post-test design). The sampling tec...