ACORN Agent based Community Oriented Retrieval Network is a multi agent system which uses agents to provide information across inter net intranet networks In this report we adapt the ACORN architecture for its performance evaluation on single and multiple servers running on single and multiple machines In order to evaluate the performance of ACORN we introduce a novel concept of multiple autono...

Th e acorn woodpecker ( Melanerpes formicivorus ) plays an important role in the history of cooperative breeding. It was one of the earliest species for which cooperative breeding was noted with more than two individuals feeding at a single nest as well as apparent mate-sharing (Myers 1915 ; Leach 1925 ; Michael 1927 ). Subsequently, in his classic Animal Dispersion in Relation to Social Behavi...

acorn production plays a fundamental role in the organization and dynamics of oak forest ecosystems. regarding acorn importance, visual survey methods have been used to estimate acorn production of oak species throughout the world. in this study, the mast indices of brant`s oak (quercus brantii lindl.) were determined in a section of northern zagros forests, almost 36 ha area, near baneh, kurdi...

The effects of raw and sodium hydrogen carbonate-treated oak acorn were evaluated on broiler chicken performance and cecal flora. A total of 340 one-day-old broiler chicks were used in a completely randomized design with five experimental treatments and four replicates with 17 birds each. A corn-based diet served as the control and four treatment groups were diets containing 20 or 25% raw or tr...

Acorn production plays a fundamental role in the organization and dynamics of oak forest ecosystems. Regarding acorn importance, visual survey methods have been used to estimate acorn production of oak species throughout the world. In this study, the mast indices of Brant`s oak (Quercus brantii Lindl.) were determined in a section of northern Zagros forests, almost 36 ha area, near Baneh, Kurdi...

We present a review on the state-of-the-art of fruit prodution in Western Iberia woodlands («dehesas»), and particularly in Q. ilex (holm oak) «dehesas». This threatened ecosystem is of very high ecological and economical importance. Quercus sp. fruits (acorns) are essential for wildlife, and for pig fattening in «dehesas». In the first part of this review we briefly describe the phenology of t...

The ACORN provides an agent based architecture for infor mation retrieval and provision across networks The main objective of this paper is to present the design and implementation of information sharing in a community of mobile agents in ACORN based on keyphrase sharing and comparison among agents In keyphrase based information sharing keyphrases and their weights are used to represent user in...

The effects of increased anthropogenic inputs of reactive nitrogen (N) have been studied at the Harvard Forest Chronic N Experiment, where NH4NO3 has been applied experimentally since 1988 to increase atmospheric deposition rates 6and 18-fold above ambient. This paper asks whether conditions favorable to primary production also resulted in plastic increases to flower, fruit, and seedling traits...

Questions: (1) How does the effort that birds invest in harvesting acorns, including the distance the acorns are moved – a key factor affecting population structure of the trees – covary with the size of the acorn crop? (2) How well are harvest patterns, previously inferred by indirect, genetic methods, matched by data from direct observations of harvesting? Organisms: The acorn woodpecker (Mel...

Fault attack is one of the most efficient side channel attacks and has attracted much attention in recent public cryptographic literatures. In this work we introduce a fault attack on the authenticated cipher ACORN v3. Our attack is done under the assumption that a fault is injected into an initial state of ACORN v3 randomly, and contains two main steps: fault locating and equation solving. At ...