In the search of alternatives for controlling Aethina tumida Murray, we recently proposed the BAA trap which uses boric acid and an attractant which mimics the process of fermentation caused by Kodamaea ohmeri in the hive. This yeast is excreted in the feces of A. tumida causing the fermentation of pollen and honey of infested hives and releasing compounds that function as aggregation pheromone...

The alkali melting method was used to pretreat the specimens of Neodymium-iron-boron alloy, and inductively coupled plasma atomic emission spectrometer determine main element boron in NdFeB alloy. parameters instrument were optimized select best spectral line for determination boron, effect matrix overcome by adding Fe. has good precision accuracy, recoveries are range 99%∼101%, RSD less than 1...

Boron plays important roles in many life processes including embryogenesis, bone growth and maintenance, immune function and psychomotor skills. Thus, the delivery of boron by the degradation of borate glass is of special interest in biomedical applications. However, the cytotoxicity of borate glass which arises with the rapid release of boron has to be carefully considered. In this study, it w...

We use new Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) and archival Goddard High Resolution Spectrograph (GHRS) observations to study interstellar B II j1362 and O I j1355 absorption along seven sight lines. Our new column density measurements, combined with measurements of four sight lines from the literature, allow us to study the relative B/O abundances over a wide range of interstellar envi...

Boron Neutron Capture Therapy (BNCT) is a binary cancer therapy particularly well-suited to treating aggressive tumours that exhibit a high degree of infiltration of the surrounding healthy tissue. Such tumours, for example of the brain and lung, provide some of the most challenging problems in oncology. The first element of the therapy is boron-10 which is preferentially introduced into the ca...

The presence of small amounts of boron in ductile iron is reported to have multiple and sometimes conflicting effects on the mechanical properties of ductile irons. The technical literature up until the early 1990’s states that small amounts of boron is a powerful carbide stabilizing element. Boron levels as low as 0.001% (10 ppm’s or parts per million) stabilize pearlite but larger amounts wer...

boron toxicity usually occurs in arid and saline soils. among all the pollutant'sresource, irrigation water is the most important factor in boron elevating in the soil.modification of boron-rich soils is difficult and in this case, resistant varieties can playan important role in increasing the cultivation in areas with high boron level. to assessthe effects of different concentrations of ...

Boron is a micronutrient that plays an important role in plant cell wall biosynthesis. Nevertheless, an excess of boron in the soil causes severe damage to the respiratory tissue of the plant. In Arabidopsis thaliana, the Atbor1 gene encodes a boron transporter that distributes this element throughout the plant. A cDNA sequence encoding a bor1 transporter was isolated from a Eucalyptus globulus...