D. S. Kim,1,* H. L. Smith,1 J. L. Niedziela,2 C. W. Li,3 D. L. Abernathy,4 and B. Fultz1 1Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California 91125, USA 2Instrument and Source Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA 3Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tenn...

C. W. Li,1,2,* H. L. Smith,2 T. Lan,2 J. L. Niedziela,3 J. A. Muñoz,2 J. B. Keith,2 L. Mauger,2 D. L. Abernathy,4 and B. Fultz2 1Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA 2Department of Applied Physics and Materials Science, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, 91125, USA 3Instrument and Source Division, Oak R...

Dietary specialization is thought to be rare in mammalian herbivores as a result of either a limitation in their detoxification system to metabolize higher doses of plant secondary compounds or deficiencies in nutrients present in a diet composed of a single species of plant. Neotoma macrotis is an oak specialist, whereas Neotoma lepida is a dietary generalist when sympatric with N. macrotis. W...

Russian ( Acipenser gueldenstaedtii), Persian ( A. persicus) and Siberian ( A. baerii) sturgeons are closely related 'Ponto-Caspian' species. Investigation of their population structure is an important problem, the solution of which determines measures for conservation of these species. According to previous studies, 'baerii-like' mitotypes were found in the Caspian Sea among 35% of Russian stu...

This study was conducted at the Bukhara breeding centre (Ouzbekistan, Central Asia) on Persian gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa subgutturosa) and at Thumammah (Saudi Arabia) on sand gazelles (Gazella subgutturosa marica). Plasma prolactin (PRL) and progesterone were determined in groups of females. Because these females were under two different photoperiods (20 degrees N in Saudi Arabia and 40 de...

The first requirement—competitive oak regeneration sources —is a restatement of the First Law of Oak Silviculture; i.e., successful oak regeneration after harvest will come from advance reproduction that exists in the current stand and stump sprouts from trees that are harvested from the current stand. I will discuss progress that has been made in assessing (1) the competitiveness of oak regene...

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...

In this paper, we address the shortage of evaluation benchmarks on Persian (Farsi) language by creating and making available a new benchmark for English to Persian Cross Lingual Word Sense Disambiguation (CL-WSD). In creating the benchmark, we follow the format of the SemEval 2013 CL-WSD task, such that the introduced tools of the task can also be applied on the benchmark. In fact, the new benc...