Juan Salafranca,1,2 Gonzalo Alvarez,3 and Elbio Dagotto1,2 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA 2Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 32831, USA 3Computer Science and Mathematics Division and Center for Nanophase Materials Science, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenness...

Relationships between advance regeneration of four tree species (red maple (Acer rubrum L.), white oak (Quercus alba L.), chestnut oak (Q. montana Willd.) and northern red oak (Q. rubra L.)) and biotic (non-tree vegetation and canopy composition) and abiotic (soil series and topographic variables) factors were investigated in 52, mature mixed-oak stands in the central Appalachians. Aggregate he...

This study investigates the effect of ageing on the qualitative and quantitative composition of plum distillate in contact with oak wood chips. Maturation was performed with lightly toasted French oak (Quercus sessiflora and Quercus robur) chips or oak chips made from fragments of empty barrels that had been used for ageing cognac. The effects of oak chip dose, process temperature, ageing syste...

Sericulture is one of the great inventions of the ancient Chinese. Besides the mulberry silkworm (Bombyx mori), Chinese farmers developed rearing of the Chinese oak silkworm (Antheraea pernyi) about 400 years ago. In this paper, the historic records of the origins and dispersal of the domesticated Chinese oak silkworm in China are summarized. The first document with clearly recorded oak silkwor...

This study focuses on the development of biocompatible oil-in-water (O/W) nanoemulsions based polyglycerol esters, as promising carriers for natural actives: red raspberry seed oil—RO and hydro-glycolic fruit extracts from raspberry—RE French oak—FE. Nanoemulsions were obtained via phase inversion composition (PIC) method at room temperature by dilution microemulsion phase, confirmed visual app...

We provide an explicit description of the convex hull of the set of matrices of bounded rank, restricted to balls for the spectral norm. As applications, we deduce two relaxed forms of the rank function restricted to balls for the spectral norm: one is the quasiconvex hull of this rank function, another one is the convex hull of the rank function, thus retrieving Fazel's theorem (2002). Key-wor...

We study the complexity of computing the mixed-integer hull conv(P ∩ Z ×R) of a polyhedron P . Given an inequality description, with one integer variable, the mixed-integer hull can have exponentially many vertices and facets in d. For n, d fixed, we give an algorithm to find the mixed integer hull in polynomial time. Given P = conv(V ) and n fixed, we compute a vertex description of the mixed-...

We propose a hull operator, the reflex-free hull, that allows us to define a 3D analogue to bays in polygons. The reflex-free hull allows a rich set of topological types, yet for polyhedral input with n edges, it remains a polyhedral set with O(n) edges. This is in contrast to other possible hull definitions that give non-planar surfaces and higher combinatorial complexity. The reflex-free hull...

Yuen Yiu,1,* A. A. Aczel,2,† G. E. Granroth,3 D. L. Abernathy,2 M. B. Stone,2 W. J. L. Buyers,4 J. Y. Y. Lin,5 G. D. Samolyuk,6 G. M. Stocks,6 and S. E. Nagler2 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA 2Quantum Condensed Matter Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 3Neutron Data Analysis and Visualization D...

Today, the use of oak as a replacement feed in poultry diets is well documented. However, oak contains polyphenol compounds (tannins) as antinutrient factors resulted in limited usage in the poultry rations. Generally, consumption of feeds containing tannin could affect gene expression level of immune system. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the effect of different levels of ...