In order to progress in the understanding of mechanical stress generation, the mesoporosity of the cell wall and its changes during maturation of poplar (Populus deltoides × P. nigra) tension wood (TW) and opposite wood (OW) were measured by nitrogen adsorption-desorption. Variations in the thickness of the gelatinous layer (G-layer) were also measured to clarify whether the mesoporosity change...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of aqua walking (AW) on coronary artery disease (CAD) and cardiorespiratory fitness in older adults with osteoarthritis in the lower extremity and compare it with that of traditional over-ground walking. METHODS Sixty consecutive eligible patients who had undergone percutaneous coronary intervention for CAD with limited ambulatio...

We introduce a general approach which combines the strength of a method recently introduced by Kharaghani with that of orthogonal deorthogonal and sequences, to some very classes of Hadamard matrices. We construct Hadamard matrices of orders 4N(tw+h+k) and 4N(hw+ kv), where v, ware the weights of 2-complementary (0, ±l)-sequenC(~s, and N, t, hand k can take on various values.

Full distributions of conductance through quantum dots with single-mode leads are reported for both broken and unbroken time-reversal symmetry. The distributions are non-Gaussian and agree well with random matrix theory calculations that account for a finite dephasing time, tw , once broadening due to a finite temperature T is also included. Full distributions of the derivatives of conductance ...

Travelling waves (TW) are among the most striking ecological phenomena emerging in oscillating populations. Despite much theory, understanding how real-world TW arise remains a challenge for ecology. Herein, we analyse 16-year time series of cyclic vole populations collected at 314 localities covering 2500 km² in France. We found evidence for a linear front TW spreading at a speed of 7.4 km yea...

The relevance of the Tremaine-Weinberg (TW) method is tested to measure the bar, spiral and inner structure pattern speeds using a gaseous velocity field. The TW method is applied to

I present a calculation of soft-gluon corrections to single top quark production in pp collisions at the LHC via the Standard Model partonic processes in the t and s channels and associated top quark and W boson production. Higher-order soft-gluon corrections through next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NNNLO) are calculated at next-to-leading logarithmic (NLL) accuracy. The soft-gluon correc...

Different types of excitawry amino acid receptors probably exe t tw specific fiaw~onal roles within the manunaban CNS. t..Glutamate may be the trammitter at all of these receptors, with extracellul+w Mg z + regulating the sensitivity of one particular receptorionophore system. As Jeff Watkins explains, this probable role of L-glutamme remains unproven. But progress is being made in characterizi...

We consider the Steiner Multicut problem, which asks, given an undirected graph G, a collection T = {T1, . . . , Tt}, Ti ⊆ V (G), of terminal sets of size at most p, and an integer k, whether there is a set S of at most k edges or nodes such that of each set Ti at least one pair of terminals is in different connected components of G \S. This problem generalizes several well-studied graph cut pr...