The shimmy is an unstable oscillation of the whole castor wheel assembly about its king pin. The phenomenon originates from the castor motion and is mainly depending on the castor lateral flexibility and on the tire-road interaction. The paper analyzes the possibility to measure the tire lateral force by means of sensors that do not substantially change the inertial properties of the castor. A ...

The mechanism underlying perinuclear calcium spiking induced during legume root endosymbioses is largely unknown. Lotus japonicus symbiosis-defective castor and pollux mutants are impaired in perinuclear calcium spiking. Homology modeling suggested that the related proteins CASTOR and POLLUX might be ion channels. Here, we show that CASTOR and POLLUX form two independent homocomplexes in planta...

Sena-Graph syrup has recently been formulated by an Iranian pharmaceutical company for being used in bowel evacuation before radiography, colonoscopy and surgery. This study compares the efficacy, adverse effects and patient compliance of two bowel preparation regimens with castor oil and Sena-Graph syrup in of outpatients for Intravenous Urography (IVU). One hundred and fourteen consecutive ou...

PURPOSE Ocular side effects in patients using eye drops may be due to intolerance to the vector used in eye drops. Castor oil is the commonly used lipophilic vector but has been shown to be cytotoxic. Effects on cells of four oils (olive, camelina, Aleurites moluccana, maize) were compared with those of castor oil in human conjunctival cells. METHODS Human conjunctival cells were incubated wi...

BACKGROUND MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are endogenously encoded small RNAs that post-transcriptionally regulate gene expression and play essential roles in numerous developmental and physiological processes. Currently, little information on the transcriptome and tissue-specific expression of miRNAs is available in the model non-edible oilseed crop castor bean (Ricinus communis L.), one of the most impor...

iranian castor bean lectin was isolated and purified by several column chromatography methods. then, the sugar and amino acid content of the purified lectin was identified. castor bean lectin has some anti tumor and anti leukemia action. thus it may be used commercially for medical and biochemical purposes.

A list of the Castor stream members is compiled based on the data from various authors. The membership probabilities for some stars are revised based on the individual apex, multiplicity, observational errors, and peculiarity. The apex of the Castor moving group is determined using the apex diagram method. The parameters of the Castor and Ursa Major streams are compared and the positions of the...

Castor (Ricinus communis L.) is one of the most ancient medicinal oil crops in the world. It has been vastly distributed in different parts of Iran. In the present study, the inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR) markers were used to evaluate the molecular genetic diversity among and within 12 castor accessions collected from 7 regions of Iran. Totally, 16 ISSR primers amplified 166 loci...

The Cern Advanced STORage (CASTOR) system is a hierarchical storage management system developed at CERN to meet the requirements for high energy physics applications. The existing disk cache management subsystem in CASTOR, the stager, was developed more than a decade ago and was intended for relatively moderate (large at the time) sized disk caches and request load. Due to internal limitations ...

BACKGROUND Beavers are one of the largest and ecologically most distinct rodent species. Little is known about their evolution and even their closest phylogenetic relatives have not yet been identified with certainty. Similarly, little is known about the timing of divergence events within the genus Castor. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We sequenced complete mitochondrial genomes from both ex...