A main purpose of this paper is to explain how the theory of higher spin fields in flat D = 4 space and in AdS4 emerges as a result of the quantization of a superparticle propagating in so called tensorial superspaces which have the property of a ‘generalized conformal’ or simply General Linear (GL) flatness.

In this study the effect of responses of Catharanthus roseus to NaCl stress has been explored. Periwinkle plants were exposed to different concentrations of salt and the effect of treatment on germination, growth parameter and antioxidative defense system investigated. Seeds were presoaked in solutions with different salinity after sterilization. Experimental samples irrigated once every two da...

High sodium intake has been associated with a higher blood pressure level. Resistance arteries are the main determinants of blood pressure. They are largely regulated by pressure (tensile stress)-induced tone (myogenic tone, MT) and by flow (shear stress)-induced dilation (FD). Thus, we studied the effect of NaCl (8%) intake for 8 weeks on FD and MT in mesenteric resistance arteries of spontane...

Total phenolic content (TPC), reducing power (RP), superoxide radical scavenging (RS), and thiobarbituric acid reactive substances (TBARS) production inhibition were measured in raw and denatured aqueous extracts from sprouts and wheatgrass of einkorn and emmer obtained at increasing salinity. Grains were incubated and kept at 0, 25, 50, and 100 mM NaCl until either sprout or wheatgrass stage. ...

A quantitative description of droplet evaporation is important to aerosol research for nanofabrication, spray drying, fuel combustion, pollution control, and respiratory medical treatments. Evaporation is a movingboundary problem with coupled mass and heat transport. An explicit finite-difference methodology and computer code has been developed for simulation of an evolving droplet, property da...

Findings on dietary glycaemic index (GI) and glycaemic load (GL) as risk factors for type 2 diabetes have been controversial. We examined the associations of dietary GI and GL and the associations of substitution of lower-GI carbohydrates for higher-GI carbohydrates with diabetes risk in a cohort of Finnish men. The cohort consisted of 25 943 male smokers aged 50-69 years. Diet was assessed, at...

Two related results are proven in the modular invariant theory of GLn(Fq ). The first is a finite field analogue of a result of Springer on coinvariants of the symmetric group Sn acting on C[x1, . . . , xn]. It asserts that the following two Fqn [GLn(Fq )×F × q ]modules have the same composition factors: • the coinvariant algebra for GLn(Fq ) acting on Fqn [x1, . . . , xn], in which GLn(Fq ) ac...

Vital wheat gluten and lecithin (GL) (50:50, w/w) were dry blended in a coffee grinder and a 9.5% (w/v) aqueous slurry was jet-cooked (steam pressures of 65 psi/g inlet and 40 psi/g outlet) to disaggregate wheat gluten and facilitate better dispersion of the two components. The jet-cooked material was freeze-dried and stored at 0 8C for future use. The GL blend was added to pure food grade comm...