Seeds of the palm Attalea butyracea (formerly known as Scheelea zonensis in Panamá and Scheelea rostrata in Costa Rica—Bradford & Smith 1977, Forget et al. 1994, Henderson 1995) are contained within stony endocarps. For the purposes of this paper, individual fruits or their seed-bearing endocarps will be referred to as diaspores; all of the seeds of a given fruit are surrounded by the stony wal...

Different theories of bodily tides assume different forms of dependence of the angular lag 8 upon the tidal frequency %. In the old theory (Gerstenkorn 1955, MacDonald 1964, Kaula 1964) the geometric lag angle is assumed constant (i.e., 8 ~ x), while the new theory (Singer 1968; Mignard 1979, 1980) postulates constancy of the time lag At (which is equivalent to saying that 8 ~ j} ). Each partic...

The drying of hydrogel films formed by poly(ethylene oxide)-poly(propylene oxide) (PEO-PPO) block copolymers (Pluronic P105 and Pluronic L64) is investigated at various air relative humidity (RH) conditions in the range 11-94%. These amphiphilic block copolymers self-assemble to form a variety of ordered (lyotropic liquid crystalline) structures as the water content decreases. The amount of wat...

Recently researchers have shown interest in integrating Reconfigurable logic into conventional processors as a Reconfigurable Function Unit (RFU). A context-full RFU supports holding intermediate results inside itself, which eliminates some data movement overheads and has some other benefits. Most contemporary processors support out-of-order execution and speculation. When a context-full RFU is...