We develop an innovative and unbiased procedure, based on event mixing, to account for unavoidable contributions from volume (or system size) fluctuations experimentally measured moments of particle multiplicity distributions produced in relativistic nuclear collisions. Within the wounded-nucleon model they are characterized by number wounded nucleons, latter usually referred as participants. F...

Wounded mature 'Fuerte' fruit (Persea americana Mill.) ripened faster than non-wounded fruit when stored at 14°C. Significant differences were not observed in respiration or ethylene production between wounded and nonwounded fruit when stored at 20° but the former softened faster and showed greater polygalacturonase activity. Wounded and non-wounded fruit ripened at similar rates when stored af...