The ratio of live crown length to tree height (crown ratio; CR) is often used as an important predictor variable for tree level growth equations, particularly for multi-species and multi-layered stands. Also, CR indicates tree vigour and can be an important habitat variable. Measurement of CR for each tree can be time-consuming and difficult to obtain in very dense stands and for very tall tree...

Removal of Cr(VI) from aqueous solutions under different conditions was investigated using either clay (montmorillonite) or micelle-clay complex, the last obtained by adsorbing critical micelle concentration of octadecyltrimethylammonium ions onto montmorillonite. Batch experiments showed the effects of contact time, adsorbent dosage, and pH on the removal efficiency of Cr(VI) from aqueous solu...

The aim of this study was to investigate the electrochemical behavior of Co-Cr alloy in artificial saliva containing (-)-epigallocatechin gallate (EGCG) and to characterize the composition and structure of the passive film formed by potentiodynamic polarization.Electrochemical measurements ranked the corrosion resistance of Co-Cr dental cast alloy as follows when exposed to artificial saliva co...

The photophysics and photochemistry of [(CO)5MC(OMe)Me] (M = Cr or W) were investigated using picosecond time-resolved infrared spectroscopy (M = Cr or W), low-temperature matrix isolation techniques (M = Cr), and time-dependent density functional calculations (M = Cr or W). These studies provide unambiguous evidence for the photochemical formation of a long-lived, 18-electron metallaketene spe...

The equivalence problem for CR structures can be viewed as a special case of the equivalence problem for G-structure. This paper uses Cartan’s methods (in modernized form) to show that a CR manifold of codimension 3 or greater with suitably generic Levi form admits a canonical connection on a reduced structure bundle whose group is isomorphic to the multiplicative group of complex numbers. As c...

It was shown by Samelson [9] and Wang [10] that each compact Lie group K of even dimension admits left-invariant complex structures. When K has odd dimension it admits a left-invariant CR-structure of maximal dimension. This has been proved recently by Charbonnel and Khalgui [2] who have also given a complete algebraic description of these structures. In this article we present an alternative a...