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    Environmental Chemistry : Microscale Laboratory Experiments (2008)
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    Keywords: Air ; Chlor ; GSM-Postponed Project ; Manual ; Oxide ; Water ; bacteria ; microorganism ; pollution ; production ; soil ; toxicity
    Description / Table of Contents: Environmental Chemistry: Fundamentals, by Jorge Ibanez et al., is an exceptionally useful and well organized book. After reviewing basic chemical concepts, Environmental Chemistry: Fundamentals quickly progresses to more advanced and contemporary applications including ozone depletion, physiochemical and biological treatment of pollutants, and green chemistry. The chemistry of processes of the atmosphere, lithosphere and hydrosphere are covered in detail and the effects of pollutants on each of these chemical processes are extensively considered, as are their effects on the biosphere. The book also has an experimental companion, Environmental Chemistry: Microscale Laboratory Experiments, which includes an array of environmental chemistry experiments that can be readily performed at the microscale level. Ideas for additional open-ended projects are provided for all experiments, and they impart a thorough introduction to environmental experimentation. I strongly recommend Environmental Chemistry: Fundamentals and its experimental accompaniment, Environmental Chemistry: Microscale Laboratory Experiments. Dr. Zvi Szafran Vice President for Academic Affairs and Professor of Chemistry Southern Polytechnic State University Our Earth is a remarkable reaction vessel. It is of paramount importance that students grow in their understanding and awareness of the astounding effects that chemistry and biochemistry have on our environment…and why they are so significant to our present and future hopes as a civilization. Environmental Chemistry: Microscale Laboratory Experiments, intended to complement lessons in the companion textbook Environmental Chemistry: Fundamentals, covers the chemical and biochemical processes that take place in air, water, soil, and living systems. The corresponding experiments range from the characterization of aqueous media to pollutant-treatment schemes. For increased safety, as well as for reduced costs, wastes, and environmental damage, the experiments are presented at the microscale level. Pre- and post-laboratory exercises and open-ended projects accompany each experiment, to develop problem-solving skills and initiative among students.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (XII, 238 pages)
    ISBN: 9780387494937
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-49493-7
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    Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean Energy Hydrogen Systems : Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workhop on Using Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean-Energy Hydrogen Systems, Sudak, Crimea, Ukraine, 22-28 September, 2007 (2008)
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    Keywords: Atom ; Fulleren ; Fullerene ; Nanocar ; Nanomaterial ; Nanotube ; Transport ; carbon nanotubes ; electricity
    Description / Table of Contents: The 2007 ARW “Using Carbon Nanomaterials in Clean-Energy Hydrogen Systems” (UCNCEHS’2007) was held in September 22–28, 2007 in the remarkable town Sudak (Crimea, Ukraine) known for its heroic and unusual fate. In the tradition of the earlier conferences, UCNCEHS’2007 meeting served as an multidisciplinary forum for the presentation and discussion of the most recent research on transition to hydrogen-based energy systems, technologies for hydrogen production, storage, utilization, carbon nanomaterials processing and chemical behavior, energy and environmental problems. The aim of UCNCEHS’2007 was to provide the wide overview of the latest scientific results on basic research and technological applications of hydrogen interactions with carbon materials. The active representatives from research/academic organizations and governmental agencies could meet, discuss and present the most recent advances in hydrogen concepts, processes and systems, to evaluate current progress and to exchange academic information, to identify research needs and future development in this important area. This ARW should help further the progress of hydrogen-based science and promote the role of hydrogen and carbon nanomaterials in the energy field.
    ISBN: 9781402088988
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8898-8
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    Seasonal Forecasts, Climatic Change and Human Health : Health and Climate (2008)
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    Keywords: Assessment ; Malaria ; Public Health ; Scale ; Weather ; climate change ; public health policy ; temperature
    Description / Table of Contents: Awareness that many key aspects of public health are strongly influenced by climate is growing dramatically, driven by new research and experience and fears of climate change and the research needed to underpin policy developments in area is growing rapidly . This awareness has yet to translate into a practical use of climate knowledge by health policy-makers. Evidence based policy and practice is the mantra of the health sector. If climate scientists are to contribute effectively to health policy at local and global scales then careful empirical studies must be undertaken – focused on the needs of the public health policy and decision-makers. Results presented at the Wengen conference make clear that the science and art of integrating climate knowledge into the control of climate sensitive diseases on a year to year time frame as well as careful assessments of the potential impacts of climate change on health outcomes over longer time frames is advancing rapidly on many fronts. This includes advances in the empirical understanding of mechanisms, methodologies for modeling future impacts, new partnership developments between the health and climate community along with access to relevant data resources, and education and training. In a rapidly evolving field this book provides a snapshot of these emerging themes.
    Pages: Online-Ressource (X, 232 pages)
    ISBN: 9781402068775
    URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6877-5
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    Thermal characterization of the Vulcano fumarole field (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2020-11-17
    Description: Ground-based thermal infrared surveys can contribute to complete heat budget inventories for fumarole fields. However, variations in atmospheric conditions, plume condensation and mixed-pixel effects can complicate vent area and temperature measurements. Analysis of vent temperature frequency distributions can be used, however, to characterise and quantify thermal regions within a field. We examine this using four thermal infrared thermometer and thermal image surveys of the Vulcano Fossa fumarole field (Italy) during June 2004 and July 2005. These surveys show that regions occupied by low temperature vents are characterised by distributions that are tightly clustered around the mean (i.e., the standard deviation is low), highly peaked (positive kurtosis) and skewed in the low temperature direction (negative skewness). This population is associated with wet fumaroles, where boiling controls maximum temperature to cause a narrow distribution with a mode at 90–100°C. In contrast, high temperature vent regions have distributions that are widely spread about the mean (i.e., the standard deviation is high), relatively flat (negative kurtosis) and skewed in the high temperature direction (positive skewness). In this dry case, fumaroles are water-free so that maximum temperatures are not fixed by boiling. As a result greater temperature variation is possible. We use these results to define two vent types at Vulcano on the basis of their thermal characteristics: (1) concentrated (localized) regions of high temperature vents, and (2) dispersed low temperature vents. These occur within a much larger region of diffuse heat emission across which surfaces are heated by steam condensation, the heat from which causes elevated surface temperatures. For Vulcano's lower fumarole zone, high and low temperature vents occupied total areas of 3 and 6 m2, respectively, and occurred within a larger (430 m2) vent-free zone of diffuse heat emission. For this lower zone, we estimate that 21– 43×103 W of heat was lost by diffuse heat emission. A further 4.5×103 W was lost by radiation from high temperature vents, and 6.5×103 W from low temperature vents. Thus, radiative heat losses from high and low temperature vents within Vulcano's lower fumarole zone respectively account for 10% and 15% of the total heat lost from this zone. This shows that radiation from open vents can account for a non-trivial portion of the total fumarole field heat budget.
    Description: Published
    Description: 441
    Description: 2V. Struttura e sistema di alimentazione dei vulcani
    Description: JCR Journal
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    Keywords: Fumarole ; Vulcano ; Thermal image ; Infrared thermometer ; Heat flux ; 04. Solid Earth::04.03. Geodesy::04.03.06. Measurements and monitoring
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    Crustal seismic velocity in the Marche region (Central Italy): computation of a minimum 1-D model with seismic station corrections. (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2020-11-16
    Description: A 1-D velocity model for the Marche region (central Italy) was computed by inverting P- and S-wave arrival times of local earthquakes. A total of 160 seismic events with a minimum of ten observations, a travel time residual ≤ 0.8 s and an azimuthal gap lower than 180° have been selected. This “minimum 1-D velocity model” is complemented by station corrections, which can be used to take into account possible near-surface velocity heterogeneities beneath each station. Using this new P-wave velocity model and the program HYPOELLIPSE (Lahr, 1999), the selected local events were relocated. Earthquake locations in this study are of higher quality with respect to the original ones. The obtained minimum 1-D velocity model can be used to improve the routine earthquakes locations and represents a further step towards more detailed seismotectonic studies of the area.
    Description: Published
    Description: 1115–1121
    Description: 3T. Sorgente sismica
    Description: JCR Journal
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    Keywords: Minimum 1D model ; Earthquake locations ; Marche region ; 04. Solid Earth::04.02. Exploration geophysics::04.02.06. Seismic methods
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    Synthetic ANaB(NaxLi1 ¡ xMg1)CMg5Si8O22(OH)2 (with x = 0.6, 0.2 and 0) P21/m amphiboles at high pressure: a synchrotron infrared study (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2020-11-17
    Description: high-pressure behavior of three synthetic amphiboles crystallized with space group P21/m at room conditions in the system Li2O–Na2O–MgO–SiO2–H2O has been studied by in situ synchrotron infrared absorption spectroscopy. The amphiboles have compositions ANa B(NaxLi1 ¡ xMg1) CMg5 Si8 O22(OH)2 with x = 0.6, 0.2 and 0.0, respectively. The high-P experiments up to 32 GPa were carried out on the U2A beamline at Brookhaven National Laboratory (NY, USA) using a diamond anvil cell under non-hydrostatic or quasi-hydrostatic conditions. The two most intense absorption bands in the OH-stretching infrared spectra can be assigned to two non-equivalent O–H dipoles in the P21/m structure, bonded to the same local environment M1M3Mg3–OH–ANa, and pointing toward two diVerently kinked tetrahedral rings. In all samples these bands progressively merge to give a unique symmetrical absorption with increasing pressure, suggesting a change in symmetry from P21/m to C2/m. The pressure at which the transition occurs appears to be linearly correlated to the aggregate B-site dimension. The infrared spectra collected for amphibole B(Na0.2Li0.8Mg1) in the frequency range 50 to 1,400 cm¡1 also show a series of changes with increasing pressure. The data reported here support the inference of Iezzi et al. (Am Miner 91:479–482, 2006a) regarding a new high-pressure C2/m amphibole polymorph characterized by two equivalent and kinked double-chains, stable at very high-pressure.
    Description: Published
    Description: 343–354
    Description: 2IT. Laboratori analitici e sperimentali
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    Keywords: High-pressure ; B-site dimension ; 04. Solid Earth::04.01. Earth Interior::04.01.04. Mineral physics and properties of rocks
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    Observations of Electromagnetic Radiation in the Central Apennines Seismic Region (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: In recent years, continuous radio-noise recording is in use at many geophysical observatories, in order to detect possible earthquake precursors and/or coseismic signals. The recordings obtained indicate that electromagnetic radiation (e.g., in the range of 10-40 kH) can indeed be treated as seismic precursor. We present here the examples of successful prediction observation, which we have obtained in the Central Apennines region at the l'Aquila Observatory (Polish-Italian cooperation). A short discussion on relation between the evolution of stresses (dislocation dynamics) and electromagnetic emission supplements this paper.
    Description: Published
    Description: 43-53
    Description: 2.6. TTC - Laboratorio di gravimetria, magnetismo ed elettromagnetismo in aree attive
    Description: N/A or not JCR
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    Keywords: electromagnetic radiation ; dislocation dynamics ; Central Apennines ; seismic precursors ; 04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.99. General or miscellaneous ; 04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.08. Instruments and techniques
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    Survey on fluoride, bromide and chloride contents in public drinking water supplies in Sicily (Italy) (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Six hundred and sixty-seven water samples were collected from public drinking water supplies in Sicily and analysed for electric conductivity and for their Cl-, Br- and F- contents. The samples were, as far as possible, collected evenly over the entire territory with an average sampling density of about one sample for every 7600 inhabitants. The contents of Cl- and Br-, ranging between 5.53 and 1302 mg/l and between 〈 0.025 and 4.76 mg/l respectively, correlated well with the electric conductivity, a parameter used as a proxy for water salinity. The highest values were found both along the NW and SE coasts, which we attributed to seawater contamination, and in the central part of Sicily, which we attributed to evaporitic rock dissolution. The fluoride concentrations ranged from 0.023 to 3.28 mg/l, while the highest values (only 3 exceeding the maximum admissible concentration of 1.5 mg/l) generally correlated either with the presence in the area of crystalline (volcanic or metamorphic) or evaporitic rocks or with contamination from hydrothermal activity. Apart from these limited cases of exceeding F- levels, the waters of public drinking water supplies in Sicily can be considered safe for human consumption for the analysed parameters. Some limited concern could arise from the intake of bromide-rich waters (about 3% exceeding 1 mg/l) because of the potential formation of dangerous disinfection by-products.
    Description: Published
    Description: 303-313
    Description: 4.4. Scenari e mitigazione del rischio ambientale
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    Keywords: drinking water quality ; fluoride ; bromide ; chloride ; 03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.04. Measurements and monitoring ; 03. Hydrosphere::03.04. Chemical and biological::03.04.03. Chemistry of waters ; 04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.12. Fluid Geochemistry
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    On the suitability of 1 s geophone for ambient noise measurements in the 0.1–20Hz frequency range: experimental outcomes (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Following the ongoing debate about suitability of short-period sensor for seismic noise measurements at frequencies lower than 1Hz, in this study we compare recordings from two different seismometers (Güralp CMG-3ESPC and Mark L4C-3D) installed side by side in the GeoForschungsZentrum laboratory. The comparison carried out in terms of Power Spectral Density and coherency analysis shows an excellent agreement between the shortperiod and the broad-band recordings in the frequency band 0.2–20 Hz. Therefore, this result highlights that with a calibrated short-period sensor one can obtain the same results that would be obtained by using a broad-band seismometer in the band of engineering interest.
    Description: Published
    Description: 141-147
    Description: 4.2. TTC - Scenari e mappe di pericolosità sismica
    Description: JCR Journal
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    Keywords: Short-period sensor, Broad-band sensor, Noise measurements ; Coherency analysis ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.10. Instruments and techniques
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    A Glimpse into the Seismicity of the Ionian Islands between 1658 and 1664 (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Mostly based on traditional catalogues, without further research, several modern parametric catalogues are nevertheless straightforward, without question marks, and easily misleading (chronology, epicentre, epicentral intensity, not to speak of magnitude). The example of an Ionian time-window (1658-1664), with several major events, shows that the historical seismicity of the Ionian Islands, often thought to be well-known, actually needs a more or less drastic revision. A wealth of sources was collected, mostly from the Archives of the Republic of Venice, then ruling the main three islands of the Ionian Archipelago; it was ascertained that there are no important chronological gaps in the surviving documentation. Similarly outstanding, and in fact at the basis of a more balanced and precise view of one of the events in this time-window, are the souvenirs of Christoff von Degenfeld, a German nobleman at the service of the Republic of Venice. His manuscript, discovered at the library of Karlsruhe (Germany) in 1992, has been consulted again in the original, on the occasion of the preparation of this paper. Some question marks remain on the distributions of macroseismic effects of the earthquakes within this time-window, and this is due to the lack of information concerning the mainland. For this reason this study does not propose epicentres and, of course, magnitudes. An unusually long documentary appendix is provided, with the hope that it might contribute in discouraging authors of parametric earthquake catalogues from hasty exploitation and interpretation of often unreliable current catalogues.
    Description: Published
    Description: 43-91
    Description: 3.10. Sismologia storica e archeosismologia
    Description: open
    Keywords: Historical seismology ; Ionian Islands 1658-1664 ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.05. Historical seismology
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    The fidelity of melt inclusions as records of melt composition (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: A series of experiments created melt inclusions in plagioclase and pyroxene crystals grown from a basaltic melt at 1,150 C, 1.0 GPa to investigate diffusive fractionation during melt inclusion formation; additionally, P diffusion in a basaltic melt was measured at 1.0 GPa. Melt inclusions and melts within a few 100 microns of plagioclase– melt interfaces were analyzed for comparison with melt compositions far from the crystals. Melt inclusions and melt compositions in the boundary layer close to the crystal–melt interface were similar, but both differ significantly in incompatible element concentrations from melt found greater than approximately 200 microns away from the crystals. The compositional profiles of S, Cl, P, Fe, and Al in the boundary layers were successfully reproduced by a two-step model of rapid crystal growth followed by diffusive relaxation toward equilibrium after termination of crystal growth. Applying this model to investigate possible incompatible element enrichment in natural melt inclusions demonstrated that at growth rates high enough to create the conditions for melt inclusion formation, *10-9–10-8 m s-1, the concentration of water in the boundary layer near the crystal was similar to that of the bulk melt because of its high diffusion coefficient, but sulfur, with a diffusivity similar to major elements and CO2, was somewhat enriched in the boundary layer melt, and phosphorus, with its low diffusion coefficient similar to other high-field strength elements and rare earth elements, was significantly enriched. Thus, the concentrations of sulfur and phosphorus in melt inclusions may over-estimate their values in the bulk melt, and other elements with similar diffusion coefficients may also be enriched in melt inclusions relative to the bulk melt.
    Description: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Discovery grant; Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica and Vulcanologia, Italy
    Description: Published
    Description: 377-395
    Description: 2.3. TTC - Laboratori di chimica e fisica delle rocce
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    Keywords: Melt inclusions ; Phosphorus diffusion ; Crystal growth ; Diffusive Fractionation ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.03. Magmas
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    Can earthquake size be controlled by the initial seconds of rupture? (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: It has been argued that the dominant period T_p derived from the initial seconds of a seismogram, hence only depending on the initial phases of earthquake rupture, seems to scale with the final size of the earthquake. We provide a physical interpretation for the observed scaling and explain how the final earthquake size could be controlled by the initial phase of rupture.
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    Description: 9-19
    Description: 3.1. Fisica dei terremoti
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    Keywords: early warning ; fracture energy ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.03. Earthquake source and dynamics
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    Effusive Activity at Mount Etna Volcano (Italy) During the 20th Century: A Contribution to Volcanic Hazard Assessment (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Mount Etna is an open conduit volcano, characterised by persistent activity, consisting of degassing and explosive phenomena at summit craters, frequent flank eruptions, and more rarely, eccentric eruptions. All eruption typologies can give rise to lava flows, which represent the greatest hazard by the volcano to the inhabited areas. Historical documents and scientific papers related to the 20th century effusive activity have been examined in detail, and volcanological parameters have been compiled in a database. The cumulative curve of emitted lava volume highlights the presence of two main eruptive periods: (a) the 1900–1971 interval, characterised by a moderate slope of the curve, amounting to 436 · 106 m3 of lava with average effusion rate of 0.2 m3/s and (b) the 1971–1999 period, in which a significant increase in eruption frequency is associated with a large issued lava volume (767 · 106 m3) and a higher effusion rate (0.8 m3/s). The collected data have been plotted to highlight different eruptive behaviour as a function of eruptive periods and summit vs. flank eruptions. The latter have been further subdivided into two categories: eruptions characterised by high effusion rates and short duration, and eruptions dominated by low effusion rate, long duration and larger volume of erupted lava. Circular zones around the summit area have been drawn for summit eruptions based on the maximum lava flow length; flank eruptions have been considered by taking into account the eruptive fracture elevation and combining them with lava flow lengths of 4 and 6 km. This work highlights that the greatest lava flow hazard at Etna is on the south and east sectors of the volcano. This should be properly considered in future land-use planning by local authorities.
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    Description: 407–443
    Description: 4.3. TTC - Scenari di pericolosità vulcanica
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    Keywords: Mt. Etna ; effusive activity ; database ; lava flow length ; eruptive fractures ; vent elevation ; hazard zonation ; 05. General::05.02. Data dissemination::05.02.03. Volcanic eruptions
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    Observatories in Italy (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Monitoring the Earth's magnetic field is carried out by geomagnetic observatories all over the world. In Italy, the first observatory was founded in 1880, when Pietro Tacchini, the director of the Central Meteorological Institute (Ufficio Centrale di Meteorologia), launched an initiative to study the distribution of the Earth's magnetic field over the Italian territory.
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    Description: 733
    Description: 1.6. Osservazioni di geomagnetismo
    Description: 3.4. Geomagnetismo
    Description: 5.3. Banche dati di geomagnetismo, aeronomia, clima e ambiente
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    Keywords: Earth's magnetic field ; Magnetic observatories ; Italy ; L'Aquila and Castello Tesino ; 01. Atmosphere::01.03. Magnetosphere::01.03.06. Instruments and techniques ; 04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.02. Geomagnetic field variations and reversals ; 04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.03. Global and regional models ; 04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.04. Magnetic anomalies ; 04. Solid Earth::04.05. Geomagnetism::04.05.08. Instruments and techniques
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    Geochemistry and potential use of groundwater in the Rocca Busambra area (Sicily, Italy) (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: In the Rocca Busambra area (mid-west Sicily, Italy), from November 1999 to July 2002, 23 water points including wells and springs were sampled and studied for their chemical and isotopic compositions. Two rain gauges were also installed at different altitudes, and rainwater was collected monthly to determine the isotopic composition. The obtained results revealed the Rocca Busambra carbonate complex as being the main recharge area on account of its high permeability value. From a chemical view point, two main groups of water can be distinguished: calcium– magnesium–bicarbonate-type and calcium–magnesium– chloride–sulphate-type waters. The first group reflects the dissolution of the carbonate rocks; the second group probably originates from circulation within flyschoid sediments. Three water wells differ from the other samples due to their relatively high Na and K content, which probably is to be referred to a marked interaction with the ‘‘Calcareniti di Corleone’’ formation, which is rich in glauconite [(K, Na)(Fe3+, Al, Mg)2(Si, Al)4O10(OH)2]. In accordance with WHO guidelines for drinking water (2004), almost all the samples collected can be considered drinkable, with the exception of four of them, whose NO3 -, F- and Na+ contents exceed the limits. On the contrary, the sampled groundwater studied is basically suitable for irrigation
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    Description: 4.5. Degassamento naturale
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    Keywords: Water quality ; Geochemistry ; Environmental isotopes ; 03. Hydrosphere::03.02. Hydrology::03.02.03. Groundwater processes
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    Impact of extreme CO2 levels on tropical climate: A CGCM study (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: A coupled general circulation model has been used to perform a set of experiments with high CO2 concentration (2, 4, 16 times the present day mean value). The experiments have been analyzed to study the response of the climate system to strong radiative forcing in terms of the processes involved in the adjustment at the ocean-atmosphere interface. The analysis of the experiments revealed a non-linear response of the mean state of the atmosphere and ocean to the increase in the carbon dioxide concentration. In the 16xCO2 experiment the equilibrium at the ocean-atmosphere interface is characterized by an atmosphere with a shut off of the convective precipitation in the tropical Pacific sector, associated with air warmer than the ocean below. A cloud feedback mechanism is found to be involved in the increased stability of the troposphere. In this more stable condition the mean total precipitation is mainly due to large-scale moisture flux even in the tropics. In the equatorial Pacific Ocean the zonal temperature gradient of both surface and sub-surface waters is significantly smaller in the 16xCO2 experiment than in the control experiment. The thermocline slope and the zonal wind stress decrease as well. When the CO2 concentration increases by about two and four times with respect to the control experiment there is an intensification of El Nino. On the other hand, in the experiment with 16 times the present-day value of CO2, the Tropical Pacific variability weakens, suggesting the possibility of the establishment of permanent warm conditions that look like the peak of El Nino.
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    Description: 743-758
    Description: 3.7. Dinamica del clima e dell'oceano
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    Description: partially_open
    Keywords: coupled model ; CO2 increase ; climate sensitivity ; 01. Atmosphere::01.01. Atmosphere::01.01.04. Processes and Dynamics
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    Jean Vogt 1929-2005. His Life as a Seismologist, Geologist, Geographer, and Historian (2008)
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    Publication Date: 2017-04-04
    Description: Jean Vogt was born in 1929 in Strasbourg (France), where he attended primary and secondary school. At the University of Strasbourg, he graduated in Geography, and majored in Geomorphology. His professor was the geographer Jean Tricart, who taught him the importance of both geological field work and archive investigation. In 1955 he joined the French West-Africa Geological Service and later the French Bureau for Geology and Mines (BRGM). Along the following 20 years he lived as a “geological” globetrotter in a number of countries, dispensing his time between the field and the archives. In these years, he was concerned mainly with mining geology, geomorphology, superficial deposits, and landslides. This unique experience led him in 1975 to the responsibility of the “Seismo-Tectonic Project”, the BRGM project in relation with the French nuclear power programme. From 1975 to 1984, he gave a substantial impulse to the study of French historical earthquakes, and since then he visited almost every public archive in France, and several major archives and libraries in Europe and abroad. He took care at the same time of the follow-up of macroseismic studies of present-day earthquakes. After he retired in 1984, he continued on a personal basis his investigations of historical earthquakes, in Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and the Caribbean area. Alongside and for about 50 years, Jean Vogt investigated uninterruptedly the agrarian history of Northeastern France and Southwestern Germany. He published in scientific journals and in local learned societies bulletins more than 500 notes and articles devoted to a variety of subjects, such as soil erosion, agriculture, cattle trade, and social conflicts. Jean Vogt died on 5 June 2005 in Strasbourg. His scientific legacy consists of a wealth of published papers, manuscripts, documentation related to history and seismology, awaiting to be further exploited, as he would have done.
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    Keywords: Jean Vogt ; biography ; historical seismology ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.05. Historical seismology
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    Strong Earthquakes in North-Western Africa in the Second Half of the 17th Century, AD: A Critical Reappraisal of the Historical Evidence (2008)
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    Description: The recent seismological literature recorded three strong earthquakes in Algeria, Libya and Tunisia between 1656 and 1694 AD. The historical evidence for these derives from European sources only (gazettes, journalistic pamphlets, missionary literature). Considering the kind of sources involved, their likely biases and the geographical distances that divided their places of production from the places that they spoke about, it is possible that some of these accounts could be less than reliable, and therefore have little use as materials from which to assess earthquake parameters. To answer these doubts, we have retrieved, cross-checked and critically analysed the original historical sources quoted in previous compilations and studies.
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    Description: 163-184
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    Keywords: Historical Seismicity ; North Africa Earthquakes ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.05. Historical seismology
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    The occurrence of Mt Barca flank eruption in the evolution of the NW periphery of Etna volcano (Italy) (2008)
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    Description: Geological surveys, tephrostratigraphic study, and 40Ar/39Ar age determinations have allowed us to chronologically constrain the geological evolution of the lower NW flank of Etna volcano and to reconstruct the eruptive style of the Mt Barca flank eruption. This peripheral sector of the Mt Etna edifice, corresponding to the upper Simeto valley, was invaded by the Ellittico volcano lava flows between 41 and 29 ka ago when the Mt Barca eruption occurred. The vent of this flank eruption is located at about 15 km away from the summit craters, close to the town of Bronte. The Mt Barca eruption was characterized by a vigorous explosive activity that produced pyroclastic deposits dispersed eastward and minor effusive activity with the emission of a 1.1-km-long lava flow. Explosive activity was characterized by a phreatomagmatic phase followed by a magmatic one. The geological setting of this peripheral sector of the volcano favors the interaction between the rising magma and the shallow groundwater hosted in the volcanic pile resting on the impermeable sedimentary basement. This process produced phreatomagmatic activity in the first phase of the eruption, forming a pyroclastic fall deposit made of high-density, poorly vesicular scoria lapilli and lithic clasts. Conversely, during the second phase, a typical strombolian fall deposit formed. In terms of hazard assessment, the possible occurrence of this type of highly explosive flank eruption, at lower elevation in the densely inhabited areas, increases the volcanic risk in the Etnean region and widens the already known hazard scenario.
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    Description: 3.5. Geologia e storia dei sistemi vulcanici
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    Keywords: Etna volcano ; unconformity ; tephostratigraphy ; 40Ar/39Ar age determination ; 04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.99. General or miscellaneous
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    Chemical and isotopic compositions of thermal springs, fumaroles and bubbling gases at Tacaná Volcano (Mexico–Guatemala): implications for volcanic surveillance (2008)
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    Description: This study presents baseline data for future geochemical monitoring of the active Tacaná volcano–hydrothermal system (Mexico–Guatemala). Seven groups of thermal springs, related to a NW/SE-oriented fault scarp cutting the summit area (4,100m a.s.l.), discharge at the northwest foot of the volcano (1,500–2,000m a.s.l.); another one on the southern ends of Tacaná (La Calera). The near-neutral (pH from 5.8 to 6.9) thermal (T from 25.7°C to 63.0°C) HCO3–SO4 waters are thought to have formed by the absorption of a H2S/SO2–CO2-enriched steam into a Cl-rich geothermal aquifer, afterwards mixed by Na/HCO3-enriched meteoric waters originating from the higher elevations of the volcano as stated by the isotopic composition (δD and δ18O) of meteoric and spring waters. Boiling temperature fumaroles (89°C at~3,600m a.s.l. NW of the summit), formed after the May 1986 phreatic explosion, emit isotopically light vapour (δD and δ18O as low as −128 and −19.9‰, respectively) resulting from steam separation from the summit aquifer. Fumarolic as well as bubbling gases at five springs are CO2-dominated. The δ13CCO2 for all gases show typical magmatic values of −3.6 ± 1.3‰ vs V-PDB. The large range in 3He/4He ratios for bubbling, dissolved and fumarolic gases [from 1.3 to 6.9 atmospheric 3He/4He ratio (RA)] is ascribed to a different degree of near-surface boiling processes inside a heterogeneous aquifer at the contact between the volcanic edifice and the crystalline basement (4He source). Tacaná volcano offers a unique opportunity to give insight into shallow hydrothermal and deep magmatic processes affecting the CO2/3He ratio of gases: bubbling springs with lower gas/water ratios show higher 3He/4He ratios and consequently lower CO2/3He ratios (e.g. Zarco spring). Typical Central American CO2/3He and 3He/4He ratios are found for the fumarolic Agua Caliente and Zarco gases (3.1 ± 1.6 × 1010 and 6.0 ± 0.9 RA, respectively). The L/S (5.9 ± 0.5)and (L + S)/M ratios (9.2 ± 0.7) for the same gases are almost identical to the ones calculated for gases in El Salvador, suggesting an enhanced slab contribution as far as the northern extreme of the Central American Volcanic Arc,Tacana
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    Description: 1.2. TTC - Sorveglianza geochimica delle aree vulcaniche attive
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    Keywords: Tacaná volcano ; Fluid geochemistry ; Volcano–hydrothermal system ; Bubbling gases ; Fumaroles ; Isotopes ; Volcanic surveillance ; 04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.12. Fluid Geochemistry ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.01. Gases ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.06. Volcano monitoring ; 05. General::05.02. Data dissemination::05.02.01. Geochemical data
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    Hardware in the Loop Tuning for a volcanic Gas Sampling UAV (2008)
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    Description: Significant advances have been made in recent years in volcanic eruption forecasting and in understanding the behaviour of volcanoes. A major requirement is improvement in the collection of field data using innovative methodologies and sensors. Collected data are typically used as input for computer simulations of volcanic activity, to improve forecasts for longlived volcanic phenomena, such as lava flow eruptions and sand-rain. This research was conducted in cooperation with OTe Systems Catania, Italy [16].
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    Keywords: Unmanned aerial vehicle ; volcanic plume sampling ; 04. Solid Earth::04.02. Exploration geophysics::04.02.01. Geochemical exploration ; 04. Solid Earth::04.02. Exploration geophysics::04.02.07. Instruments and techniques
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    Volcanological inferences from seismic-strain tensor computations at Mt. Etna Volcano, Sicily (2008)
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    Description: Kostrov's (1974) algorithm for seismic-strain tensor computations, in the version implemented by Wyss et al. (1992a) for error estimates, has been applied to shear-type earthquakes occurring beneath the Etna volcano during 1990-1996. Space-time variations of strain orientations and amplitudes have been examined jointly with ground-deformation and gravimetric data collected in the same period and reported in the literature. Taking also into account the information available from volcanological observations and structural geology, we propose a model assuming that hydraulic pressure by magma emplaced in nearly north-south vertical structures produces the E-W orientation of the maximum compressive strain found in the upper 10 km beneath the crater area. In contrast, regional tectonics deriving from the slow, north-south convergence between the African and European plates appear to play a dominant role in the generation of stress and strain fields at crustal depths deeper than 10 km below the volcano. According to our interpretation, the progressive ascent of magma through the upper crust prior to eruption produces the observed gravity changes, cone inflation and unusual seismic strain rate in the upper 10 km associated with a more sharply defined seismic deformation regime (i.e. very small confidence limits of the epsilon 1 orientation). In agreement with this model, deflation revealed by ground-deformation data during the course of the major 1991-1993 eruption was accompanied by a practically nil level of shallow seismicity.
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    Description: 318-330
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    Keywords: Mt. Etna ; Italy ; Earthquakes ; Seismic strain ; Stress inversion ; Volcanic processes ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.08. Volcano seismology
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    BET_EF: a probabilistic tool for long- and short-term eruption forecasting (2008)
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    Description: The main purpose of this paper is to introduce a Bayesian event tree model for eruption forecasting (BET_EF). The model represents a flexible tool to provide probabilities of any specific event at which we are interested in, by merging all the relevant available information, such as theoretical models, a priori beliefs, monitoring measures, and any kind of past data. BET_EF is based on a Bayesian procedure and it relies on the fuzzy approach to manage monitoring data. The method deals with short- and long-term forecasting, therefore it can be useful in many practical aspects, as land use planning, and during volcanic emergencies. Finally, we provide the description of a free software package that provides a graphically supported computation of short- to long-term eruption forecasting, and a tutorial application to the recent MESIMEX exercise at Vesuvius.
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    Description: 623-632
    Description: 4.3. TTC - Scenari di pericolosità vulcanica
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    Keywords: eruption forecasting ; event tree ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.08. Volcanic risk
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    Fluorine speciation in topsoils of three active volcanoes of Sicily (Italy) (2008)
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    Description: Fluorine is one of the many environmental harmful elements released by volcanic activity. The content of total, oxalate extractable and water extractable fluorine was determined in 96 topsoils of three active volcanic systems of southern Italy (Mt. Etna, Stromboli and Vulcano). Total fluorine content (FTOT) ranges from 112 to 7430 mg kg-1, F extracted with oxalate (FOX) ranges from 16 to 2320 mg kg-1 (2 – 93 % of FTOT) and F extracted with distilled water (FH2O) ranges from 1.7 to 159 mg kg-1 (0.2 – 40 % of FTOT). Fluorine in the sampled topsoils derives both from the weathering of volcanic rocks and ashes and from enhanced deposition due to volcanic gas emissions either from open-conduit passive degassing (Mt. Etna and Stromboli) or from a fumarolic field (Vulcano). Fluorine accumulation in the studied soils does generally not present particular environmental issues except for a few anomalous sites at Vulcano where measured contents could be dangerous both for vegetation and for grazing animals.
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    Description: 4.5. Degassamento naturale
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    Keywords: soil fluorine ; oxalate extractable F ; water extractable F ; environmental impact of volcanic F ; Sicily ; 04. Solid Earth::04.04. Geology::04.04.12. Fluid Geochemistry ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.01. Gases
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    Investigation of pre-1700 Earthquakes Between the Adda and the Middle Adige River Basins (Southern Alps) (2008)
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    Description: While the seismicity of the Southern Alps is high in the Eastern sector, corresponding to the Veneto and Friuli regions, it decreases towards West up to the Adda River. In the sector between the Lessini Mts. and Eastern Friuli the damaging earthquakes are clustered in a well defined seismic belt, where seismogenic sources responsible for earthquakes with Mw 6 have been defined in recent works. In contrast, the knowledge of the Southalpine sector West of this area is sparser; the area experienced some earthquakes with Mw〉5.5 and varied events with 4.8≤Mw≤5.5 the distribution of which is, apparently, random. For the area roughly defined by the basins of the Adda River to the West and the middle Adige River to the East, this paper reappraises the background knowledge of the earthquakes occurred before 1700. The investigation and the results are presented according to two successive periods, up to 1995 and from 1995 on. In the research performed up to 1995, the most important achievements concerned two different aspects: i) the assessement of several “fake quakes”, some of which were the object of paradigmatic case-histories; ii) the resizing and relocation of several, presumed damaging earthquakes. Though this round of investigation changed significantly the picture of the seismicity with respect to the Seventies, the research continued. For the period from 1995 on, the discussion focuses on the reliability of the available information; material that received little or no consideration before, new historical findings and comments to the seismological interpretation as in the most recent literature are also presented. This part includes also the discussion of archaeoseismological evidence of damage related to past earthquakes.
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    Description: 93-129
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    Keywords: historical seismology ; Adda and Middle Adige River Basins ; Southern Alps ; archaeoseismology ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.05. Historical seismology
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    In Troubled Times, in a Divided Country: The 1789 Valtiberina Earthquake (2008)
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    Description: The Valtiberina region (central Italy) has a seismic record going back to the Middle Ages and including five Io 〉 VIII MCS earthquakes, the earliest of which (1352, 1389, 1458). though recently and extensively studied, remain rather poorly known. This makes it all the more important to ensure that the later ones (1789, 1917) are as throughly studied as possible. The 1789 earthquake is listed by the current Italian catalogue (CPTI Working Group 2004) with Io VIII-IX MCS and Mm 5.8. These parameters were assessed from a database of 28 macroseismic intensity data points (Castelli et al. 1996), which is less than plentiful for a late 18th century earthquake. An analysis of the historical context of the 1789 earthquake and its influence on the production of contemporary accounts evidences a few research paths that previous studies either did not or could not take. Following them, the macroseismic database of the 1789 earthquake can be noticeably improved, providing the catalogue compiler with a mean to check the reliability of its current parameters.
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    Description: 249-260
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    Keywords: Historical Seismicity ; 1789 Valtiberina Earthquake ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.05. Historical seismology
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    Volcanic Eruptions:Cyclicity during Lava Dome Growth (2008)
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    Description: We consider the process of slow extrusion of very viscous magma that forms lava domes. Dome-building eruptions are commonly associated with hazardous phenomena, in- cluding pyroclastic flows generated by dome collapses, explosive eruptions and volcanic blasts. These eruptions commonly display fairly regular alternations between pe- riods of high and low or no activity with time scales from hours to years. Usually hazardous phenomena are asso- ciated with periods of high magma discharge rate, thus, understanding the causes of pulsatory activity during ex- trusive eruptions is an important step towards forecasting volcanic behavior, especially the transition to explosive ac- tivity when magma discharge rate increases by a few orders of magnitude. In recent years the risks have increased be- cause the population density in the vicinity of many active volcanoes has increased.
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    Description: 3.6. Fisica del vulcanismo
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    Keywords: Volcanic Eruptions ; Cyclicity ; During Lava ; 04. Solid Earth::04.01. Earth Interior::04.01.99. General or miscellaneous ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.04. Thermodynamics ; 04. Solid Earth::04.08. Volcanology::04.08.08. Volcanic risk
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    Simulating Earthquake Scenarios in the European Project LESSLOSS: The Case of Lisbon (2008)
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    Description: Within the framework of the European LESSLOSS Project “Risk Mitigation for Earthquakes and Landslides”, finite-fault seismological models have been proposed for the computation of earthquake scenarios for three urban areas: Istanbul (Turkey), Lisbon (Portugal) and Thessaloniki (Greece). For each case study, ground motion scenarios were developed for the two most probable events with different return periods (generally 50 and 500 years), locations and magnitudes that were derived from historical and geological data. The ground motion simulations were performed in the frequency band of engineering interest (0.5-20 Hz) by two numerical finite-fault methods: a hybrid deterministic-stochastic method, DSM, used for all of the cases investigated, and a non-stationary stochastic finite-fault simulation method, RSSIM, applied only in the case of Lisbon. In the present study, the results with respect to bedrock and surface are presented in terms of peak ground acceleration (PGA) for the city of Lisbon and the surrounding area, using earthquake scenarios from the onshore source area of the Lower Tagus Valley, and from the offshore source area of the Marques de Pombal fault, which is one of the possible sources of the 1755 Lisbon earthquake. Site effects are evaluated by means of a properly designed equivalent stochastic non-linear one-dimensional ground response analyses of stratified soil profile units. The requirements of the users (e.g., engineers, local administrators) constrain the choice of the scenario that can be adopted as input for disaster scenario predictions and loss modelling; in the case of Lisbon, the maximum values of shaking were assumed as the criteria for the reference scenarios.
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    Description: 3T. Storia Sismica
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    Keywords: Simulating Earthquake Scenarios ; European LESSLOSS project ; The Case of Lisbon ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.99. General or miscellaneous
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    Heavy metals distribution of soils around mining sites of cadmium-rich marine sedimentary phosphorites of Kpogamé and Hahotoé (Southern Togo) (2008)
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    Description: Metal concentrations of 37 soil samples taken from mining areas (abandoned mine pits and transport routes) in Kpogamé and Hahotoé (southern Togo) range from 0.2-43 ppm for Cd, 15-115 ppm for Pb, 182-1,029 ppm for Cr, 18-356 ppm for Cu, 15-342 pm for Ni, 90-513 ppm for V, 35-536 ppm for Zn, 80-469 ppm for Zr and 266-3,161 ppm for Sr. The tropical alteration of the ore waste plays an important role in the distribution of trace elements in the studied soils. Because the alteration affects the element mobility, generally old abandoned mining areas, which , together with soils near the transport routes, show a higher degree of contamination. Under low pH and oxidising conditions in studied soils Cd, Ni and Zn are generally easily mobilised and are thus available to the environment.
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    Keywords: Heavy metals ; Pollution ; Heavy metals ; Mining ; Phosphorite ; Pollution
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    VLNDEF Project for Geodetic Infrastructure Definition of Northern Victoria Land, Antarctica (2008)
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    Description: Scientific investigations in Antarctica are, for many different reasons, a challenging and fascinating task. Measurements, observations and field operations must be carefully planned well in advance and the capacity of successfully meeting the goals of a scientific project is often related to the capacity of forecasting and anticipating the many different potential mishaps. In order to do that, experience and logistic support are crucial. On the scientific side, the team must be aware of its tasks and be prepared to carry out observations in a hostile environment: both technology and human resources have to be suitably selected, prepared, tested and trained. On the logistic side, nations, institutions and any other organisation involved in the expeditions must ensure the proper amount of competence and practical support. The history of modern Italian Antarctic expeditions dates back to the middle 80’s when the first infrastructures of “Mario Zucchelli Station”, formerly Terra Nova Bay Station, were settled at Terra Nova Bay, Northern Victoria Land. Only a few years later, the first geodetic infrastructures were planned and built. Italian geodetic facilities and activities were, ever since, being constantly maintained and developed. Nowadays, the most remarkable geodetic infrastructures are the permanent Global Positioning System (GPS) station (TNB1) installed at Mario Zucchelli and the GPS geodetic network Victoria Land Network for DEFormation control (VLNDEF) entirely deployed on an area extending between 71° S and 76° S and 160° E and 170° E. These facilities do not only allow carrying out utmost geodetic investigations but also posses interesting capacities on the international multidisciplinary scientific scenario. In order to fully exploit their potentiality, management and maintenance of the infrastructure are crucial; nevertheless, in order to perform high quality scientific research, these abilities must be coupled with the knowledge concerning a proper use and a correct processing of the information that these infrastructures can provide. This work focuses on the different methods that can be applied to process the observations that are performed with GPS technique in Northern Victoria Land, aiming at reaching the highest accuracy of results and assuring the larger significance and versatility of the processing outcomes. Three software were used for the analysis, namely: Bernese v.5.0, Gipsy/Oasis II and Gamit/Globk. The working data sets are (i) the permanent GPS station TNB1 observations continuously performed since 1998 and (ii) the five episodic campaigns performed on the sites of VLNDEF. The two infrastructures can be regarded as neat examples of standard geodetic installation in Antarctica. Therefore, the technological solutions that were adopted and applied for establishing the GPS permanent station and the VLNDEF geodetic network as well as the data processing strategies and the data analysis procedures that were tested on their observation will be illustrated in detail. The results will be presented, compared and discussed. Furthermore, their potentials and role in geodetic research will be carefully described; their versatility will also be highlighted in the foreground of a multidisciplinary Antarctic international scientific activity.
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    Description: 1.8. Osservazioni di geofisica ambientale
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    Keywords: Antarctica ; Geodesy ; Geodetic Infrastructures ; GPS ; 01. Atmosphere::01.01. Atmosphere::01.01.08. Instruments and techniques
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    Correlation between damage distribution and ambient noise H/V spectral ratio: the SESAME project results (2008)
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    Description: In the framework of the SESAME project one of the taskswas the compilation of all available ambient noise measurements within urban environments affected by historical or/and recent strong earthquakes in Europe. The aim of such a task was to give an answer to the question; “How does horizontal-to-vertical ambient noise spectral ratio compare with damage in modern cities?”. For this purpose five European urban areas, namely, Angra do Heroismo (Portugal), Fabriano and Palermo (Italy), Thessaloniki and Kalamata (Greece) were selected for which spatial damage information was available either in terms of modified Mercalli intensity or in EMS98 damage grades. The geological setting of the examined sites as well as the causative earthquakes are satisfactorily known. Ambient noise recordings compiled for all examined sites have been homogeneously processed by a technique developed and agreed upon SESAME project. Using a standard multivariate statistical analysis, namely, factor analysis and canonical correlation, the horizontal-to-vertical ambient noise spectral ratio (HVNSR) is correlated with damage pattern observed within examined urban areas. Results show that, in some cases (Thessaloniki, Palermo), the HVNSR seems to be able to differentiate between areas previously shown to be associated with higher damage. In other cases however (Angra do Heroismo, Fabriano, Kalamata), the correlation is not statistically significant indicating thus the complex character of the parameters involved, implying that currently there is no a straightforward way that a value of HVNSR can correctly predict the extent to which a given region will be associated with increased damage.
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    Description: 4.1. Metodologie sismologiche per l'ingegneria sismica
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    Keywords: Ambient noise ; Site effect ; Macroseismic intensity ; Factor and canonical analysis ; 04. Solid Earth::04.06. Seismology::04.06.99. General or miscellaneous
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    Deriving vulnerability curves using Italian earthquake damage data (2008)
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    Description: The concerted effort to collect earthquake damage data in Italy over the past 30 years has led to the development of an extensive database from which vulnerability predictions for the Italian building stock can be derived. A methodology to derive empirical vulnerability curves with the aforementioned data is presented herein and the resulting curves have been directly compared with mechanics-based vulnerability curves. However, it has been found that a valid comparison between the empirical and analytical vulnerability curves is not possible mainly due to a number of shortcomings in the database of surveyed buildings. A detailed discussion of the difficulties in deriving vulnerability curves from the current observed damage database is thus also presented.
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    A parallel scaled conjugate-gradient algorithm for the solution phase of gathering radiosity on hypercubes (1997)
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    The visual computer 13 (1997), S. 1-19 
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    A new antialiasing approach for image compositing (1997)
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    The visual computer 13 (1997), S. 218-227 
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    Scattered data fitting with simplex splines in two and three dimensional spaces (1997)
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    A note on computing the saddle values in isosurface polygonization (1997)
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    The visual computer 13 (1997), S. 342-344 
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    Structure and development of the nephridia of Tomopteris helgolandica (Annelida) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 1-11 
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    Notes: Abstract  Nephridial diversity is high in Phyllodocida (Annelida) and ranges from protonephridia to metanephridia. The nephridia of Tomopteris helgolandica (Tomopteridae) can be characterized as metanephridia which bear a multiciliated solenocyte. This cell is medially apposed to the proximal part of the nephridial duct and bears several cilia, each of which is surrounded by a ring of 13 microvilli. An extracellular matrix connects the microvilli and thus leads to the impression of a tube surrounding the central cilium. Each tube separately enters a subjacent duct cell and the cilia extend into a cup-shaped compartment within the duct cell. This compartment is not connected to the duct. The funnel consists of eight multiciliated cells and is connected to the nephridial duct, which initially runs intercellularly and later percellularly. The last duct cell bears a neck-like process which pierces the subepidermal basal membrane and is connected to epidermal cells forming a small invagination, the nephropore. The nephridia of T. helgolandica develop from a band of cells and all structural components are differentiated at an early developmental stage. Further development is characterized by enlargment of the funnel, ciliogenesis in the solenocyte, merging of different sections of the duct and, finally, the formation of the nephropore. An evaluation of the nephridia of T. helgolandica leads to the hypothesis that the nephridial diversity in Phyllodocida can be explained by the retainment of different stages in the transition of protonephridia into metanephridia; this is caused by the formation of a ciliated funnel at different ontogenetic stages. Although the protonephridia in Phyllodocida are regarded as primary nephridial organs, protonephridia are also presumed to have evolved secondarily in progenetic interstitial species of the Annelida by an incomplete differentiation of the nephridial anlage.
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    Ultrastructure of the male reproductive organs in the interstitial annelid Sphaerosyllis hermaphrodita (”Polychaeta”, Syllidae) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 13-22 
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    Notes: Abstract  The reproductive organs of the simultaneous hermaphrodite Sphaerosyllis hermaphrodita (Syllidae, Exogoninae) were examined by TEM and reconstructed from ultrathin serial sections. Oocytes are produced in the 11–13th chaetigerous segments and then attached to the outer body surface. The male organs comprise a seminal vesicle, testes, sperm ducts and copulatory chaetae. The unpaired seminal vesicle is an uncompartmented cavity above the gut and within the chaetigerous segments 8–10. Its interior is lined with a layer of gland cells that degenerate as spermatogenesis in the vesicle proceeds. The testes are situated ventrolaterally, close to the seminal vesicle in the 9th chaetigerous segment. They contain cells at early stages of spermatogenesis, which are connected to one another by zonulae collares. The testes and seminal vesicle are enclosed in epithelia. Paired sperm ducts run ventrally from about the midline of the body under the seminal vesicle and into the parapodia of the 9th chaetigerous segment. There they open, together with the protonephridia of this segment, to the outside next to the stout copulatory chaeta. Each sperm duct consists of six cells, the luminal surface of which bears microvilli but no cilia. Only in animals with fully differentiated sperm does the small opening of the proximal duct cell in each duct give access to the seminal vesicle. The mode of sperm transfer is discussed.
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    Ultrastructure of the nuchal organ and cerebral organ in Onchnesoma squamatum (Sipuncula, Phascolionidae) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 23-31 
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    Notes: Abstract  The ultrastructure of the nuchal organ and cerebral organ is described for the first time in a species of the Sipuncula, Onchnesoma squamatum. The nuchal organ is an unpaired structure lying outside and dorsal to the tentacular crown; furrows give the organ a paired appearance. The cerebral organ is an unciliated pad anterior to the nuchal organ. The nuchal organ consists of ciliated supporting cells, non-ciliated supporting cells and bipolar primary sensory cells. The cerebral organ is composed of unciliated supporting cells and numerous bipolar sensory cells. This clearly favours the hypothesis that this structure has a sensory function in adults rather than being a vestige of a larval organ. The sensory cells are similar in both organs and exhibit features indicative of chemoreception. Since the density of the sensory cells is low in the nuchal organ, an exclusively sensory function is questioned. There is some evidence that the two organs represent a functional unit. The present findings do not support the view that the nuchal organs of Sipuncula and ”Polychaeta” are homologous, but instead suggest that they are convergent structures.
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    Ultrastructure of the cephalic sensory organs of adult Pycnophyes dentatus and of the first juvenile stage of P. kielensis (Kinorhyncha, Homalorhagida) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 33-40 
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    Notes: Abstract  The ultrastructure of the paired cephalic sensory organs of adult Pycnophyes dentatus and of the first juvenile stage of P. kielensis (Kinorhyncha, Homalorhagida) was investigated by TEM. In both species, each sensory organ is composed of one receptor cell and one enveloping cell which border a common intercellular lumen. A single receptor cilium extends from the receptor cell into this lumen. The cilium expands behind the basal body and branches into numerous processes. A pair of cephalic sensory organs with these characteristics belongs to the ground pattern of, at least, the Pycnophyidae. The sensory organs of these Kinorhyncha correspond closely with the anterior cephalic organs of the Gastrotricha, but differ from the known cephalic receptors of other Nemathelminthes. Currently, it cannot be evaluated conclusively whether the last common ancestor of the Nemathelminthes possessed cephalic sensory organs and, if it did, what these organs looked like.
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    Epidermal ultrastructure of Seison nebaliae and Seison annulatus, and a comparison of epidermal structures within the Gnathifera (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 41-48 
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    Notes: Abstract  The epidermis of both species of Seison is syncytial and has a characteristic internal layer divided into two distinct sublayers. Sublayer I is very thin (0.03 μm) and bounded to the outer cell membrane of the epidermis. Sublayer II is 0.5 μm thick and separated from sublayer I by a thin layer of cytoplasm. Intrusions of the outer cell membrane of the epidermis perforate the internal layer, before terminating within the cytoplasm. The intrusions of the cell membrane of S. annulatus are coated by an electron-dense material, the annulus, when passing through the internal layer. Bundles of filaments are present in the epidermis of S. nebaliae. A comparison of epidermal structures within the Gnathifera Ahlrichs, 1995, confirms phylogenetic relationships earlier proposed by the author.
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    Transport-active organs within the ’ano-genital’ capsule of Craterostigmus tasmanianus (Chilopoda, Craterostigmomorpha) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 49-52 
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    Notes: Abstract  In Craterostigmus tasmanianus, first results of the cellular organization of anal organs within the ’ano-genital’ capsule are presented. Each valve of the ’ano-genital’ capsule bears four pore fields ventrally, each of them consisting of several pore openings of the anal organs. The pores lead into a cuticle-lined pore channel, the base of which is surrounded by a single-layered epithelium that is composed of three different cell types. The main epithelium consists of radially arranged transport-active cells surrounded by exocrine cells, and the cells of the pore channel. The cells of the transporting epithelium show deep invaginations of the apical and basal cell surfaces and plasmalemma-mitochondrial complexes. These cells are covered by a specialized cuticle with a prominent subcuticle. Exocrine glands secrete a mucous layer on the cuticle of the main epithelium. The type of anal organ present in Craterostigmus tasmanianus shows similarities to coxal and anal organs found in other Pleurostigmophora in the chilopods. The possible function of the anal organs in uptaking water vapour is discussed. It is appropriate to call the organs within the ’ano-genital’ capsule of Craterostigmus tasmanianus ”anal organs”, as components of the genital segments are not involved.
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    Ultrastructure and ion permeability of the two types of epithelial cell arranged alternately in the gill of the fresh water branchiopod Caenestheriella gifuensis (Crustacea) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 53-62 
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    Notes: Abstract  The adult freshwater branchiopod, Caenestheriella gifuensis, has, as respiratory organs, fifteen pairs of slender cone-shaped gills composed of a thick epithelium. The silver nitrate/nitric acid technique revealed that the gill epithelium consisted of two kinds of cell, types I and II, which were alternately arranged with irregular interdigitations to form a unique, daisy pattern. Only type I cells were darkly stained by this technique, indicating high permeability of these cells to chloride ions and appearing to be responsible for the ion transport and osmoregulation. Further, electron microscopy disclosed fine structural characteristics of the two distinct types of epithelial cell covered by an extremely thin and soft cuticle layer, suggesting high permeability to gases and ions. The type I epithelial cell was characterized by an abundance of mitochondria, well-developed infoldings of the basal cell membrane exceeding two-thirds of the epithelial thickness, (which produce a magnification of the basolateral surface area of the cell), sparse microvillous projections of the apical border, and complicated interdigitations with the other type of epithelial cell. In the type II epithelial cell, on the other hand, these characteristics were less developed. These results suggest that in addition to their respiratory function, type I epithelial cells are of the ion-transporting type and play an important role in the active absorption of electrolytes to maintain a constant osmotic pressure of the hemolymph in extremely salt-deficient, freshwater environments. The type II epithelial cells may function mostly as respiratory epithelial cells.
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    Permeability of the podocytes of Lumbricus terrestris (Annelida, Oligochaeta) to different markers (1997)
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    Notes: Abstract  The distribution of different injected markers between blood vessels and the coelomic cavity of Lumbricus terrestris was investigated by light and electron microscopy in order to show the direction of filtration and the permeability of the basement membrane of podocytes. The present results revealed that ultrafiltration takes place across the ventral vessel as well as through the peri-intestinal blood sinus of the typhlosolis. Furthermore, the filtration processes seem to be restricted to the front part of the body. Fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) [molecular weight (MW) 389.4 Da], Procion yellow (MW 873 Da), FITC-labelled dextrans (MW 39 kDa) and gold particles up to a diameter of 10–12 nm passed the podocytes. Evans blue (MW 960.8 Da) could not permeate through the podocytes. The injected gold particles were found inside the extracellular channels of the podocyte, between the microvilli-like processes of the podocyte and on the coelomic side of the peritoneal epithelium. The appearance of gold particles in the previously described structures indicated that filtration takes place from the lumen of the ventral vessel to the coelomic cavity.
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    Ultrastructure of the subepidermal musculature of Xenoturbella bocki, the adelphotaxon of the Bilateria (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 71-79 
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    Notes: Abstract  Xenoturbella bocki is the only species of the high-ranked taxon Xenoturbellida. The species lives on marine mud bottoms at a depth of 20–120 m and moves extremely slowly by ciliary gliding. Nevertheless it possesses a well-developed body wall musculature with outer circular muscles, a prominent layer of inner longitudinal muscles and radial muscles that extend from the outer circular myocytes to the musculature surrounding the gastrodermis. The longitudinal myocytes are not compact cells, but form fascicles of fibrils running parallel to each other. Fine cytoplasmic cords connect the fibres of a cell to each other and with its nuclear region. The muscles are embedded within a sometimes expansive extracellular matrix (ECM) that lacks any fibrillar components. All muscle cells display conspicuous and numerous cytoplasmic extensions that are intermingled with each other. Tight coupling between adjacent cell membranes is not found, but zonula adhaerens-like junctions exist. Fibrils belonging to different myocytes, but also fibrils of the same cell, are coupled by such cytoplasmic extensions. Circular, radial and at least the peripheral longitudinal myocytes display cell-matrix connections with the internal lamina, a component of the subepidermal ECM. This internal lamina projects down into the centres of the fascicles with longitudinal muscle fibrils and forms extensive attachment zones with the muscle cells, reminiscent of focal contacts. For the ingestion of food, X. bocki opens the simple mouth pore and protrudes the aciliated gastrodermis. The body wall musculature is responsible for this protrusion and also for the withdrawal of the gastrodermis. In the past, possible phylogenetic kinships with the Acoelomorpha (Plathelminthes) or the Enteropneusta and Holothuroidea were discussed, but, on the basis of all information available, X. bocki is hypothesized to be the sister taxon of the Bilateria.
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    Ultrastructure and histochemistry of the testicular efferent duct system and spermiogenesis in Opistognathus whitehurstii (Teleostei, Trachinoidei) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 93-102 
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    Notes: Abstract  Testis organization and spermatogenesis, with the emphasis on spermiogenesis, in Opistognathus whitehurstii are described by ultrastructural and histochemical methods. The germinal epithelium is extremely reduced and restricted to the periphery of the testis, while most of the organ is occupied by a highly developed system of testicular efferent ducts. A semicystic type of spermatogenesis is observed and in the germinal epithelium spermatogenesis occurs only until the spermatidal stage. Young spermatids are released into the lumen of the testicular lobules and mature to sperm within the efferent duct system. The epithelial cells of these ducts are involved in protein and glycogen secretion and in phagocytosis of degenerating germ cells and residual bodies cast off by developing spermatids. On the basis of these functions, the testicular efferent duct system cells are considered to be homologous to the Sertoli cells. A correlation between a highly developed testicular efferent duct system and semicystic spermatogenesis is examined and a possible functional meaning of this apparently unusual mode of sperm production is proposed.
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    Comparative ultrastructure of the epidermal ciliary rootlets and associated structures in species of the Nemertodermatida and Acoela (Plathelminthes) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 81-92 
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    Notes: Abstract  The fine morphology of epidermal ciliary structures in four species of the Nemertodermatida and four species of the Acoela was studied, with emphasis on Meara stichopi (Nemertodermatida). The cilium of M. stichopi has a distal shelf and is proximally separated from the basal body by a cup-shaped structure. The bottom of the cup consists of a bilayered dense plate, or basal plate. The basal body consists of peripheral microtubule doublets continuous with those of the cilium. In the upper part of the basal body, the doublets are set at an angle and are anchored to the enclosing cell membrane by Y-shaped structures. The lower part of the basal body tapers eventually. The striated main rootlet arises on the anterior face of the basal body, initially like a flattened strap, and continues along the basal body shaped as a tube which further down becomes solid. The hour-glass-shaped posterior rootlet arises on the posterior face of the basal body. Contrary to the main rootlet, the striations in the proximal part of the posterior rootlet run parallel to the microtubule doublets of the basal body. A pair of microtubule bundles lead from the posterior rootlet to the two main rootlets in the hind ciliary row, and follow these to their lower tip. In the other species of the Nemertodermatida studied, the structure of the ciliary basal body and the ciliary rootlets is similar to that of M. stichopi. Structural differences in the species of the Acoela are that the lowermost end of the basal body is narrow and bent forwards, the proximal part of the main rootlet is trough-shaped, the main rootlet is accompanied by a pair of lateral rootlets and the posterior rootlet with associated microtubule bundles is thin. The epidermal ciliary structures in species of the Nemertodermatida and Acoela have a number of shared characters which are unique within the Plathelminthes. However, almost all of these characters are found in Xenoturbella bocki (Xenoturbellida), and some even in species of other ”phyla” of the ”lower” Metazoa. Hence, these characters cannot be considered apomorphic for the Acoelomorpha. A character seemingly present only in species of the Nemertodermatida and Acoela is the bilayered dense plate. This feature might represent an autapomorphic character state for the Acoelomorpha.
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    Ultrastructure of the non-germinal cells in the testes of ascidians (Urochordata) and their role in the phagocytosis of sperm (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 103-113 
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    Notes: Abstract  In three species of the Enterogona (Clavelina lepadiformis, Ciona intestinalis and Ascidiella aspersa) and three species of the Pleurogona (Dendrodoa grossularia, Styela clava and Molgula manhattensis) the testis was found to be invested by an epithelium separating the germ cells from the surrounding connective tissue or haemal sinuses. Each epithelial cell probably bears a single cilium, which in C. lepadiformis has a rootlet. Cilia are absent in S. clava. Lipid droplets are common and glycogen-rosettes occur in C. lepadiformis and D. grossularia. The basal plasmalemma varies from smooth to very irregular and in A. aspersa is anchored with hemidesmosomes. Except in S. clava, desmosome-like junctions occur between adjacent cells. Elimination of waste sperm following the reproductive season was observed to be undertaken by the epithelial wall cells in all species except C. lepadiformis. In C. intestinalis, D. grossularia, S. clava and M. manhattensis many of these cells detach and migrate to the interior of the testis where they continue and complete the phagocytosis of sperm. In C. lepadiformis, the non-germinal epithelium plays no role in the elimination of superfluous sperm which is probably phagocytosed, together with the rest of the body, by wandering trophocytes. Within the Urochordata the effectiveness of the testis epithelium as a blood-testis barrier varies, but is not correlated to modes of reproduction as postulated for other taxa.
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    The larval ocelli of Golfingia misakiana (Sipuncula, Golfingiidae) and of a pelagosphera of another unidentified species (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 115-120 
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    Notes: Abstract  The inverse cerebral ocelli of the pelagosphera larva of Golfingia misakiana and of another unidentified larva are composed of two or three sensory cells and one supportive pigmented cell. The sensory cells bear an array of microvilli as well as a single cilium with poor undulation of its membrane; the photoreceptive organelles are regarded as the rhabdomeric type. A striking feature of these cells is the cores, which extend within the microvilli from the tip into the midregion of the cell. It is suggested that these structures are identical with the submicrovillar cisternae found in the cerebral inverse eyes of larvae of Polychaeta. The findings allow the conclusion that in the pelagosphera of the Sipuncula, contrary to the teleplanic veliger larvae of Gastropoda, a lengthy pelagic cycle is not correlated with the development of a ciliary photoreceptor. Additionally, it is assumed that the pigment cup ocelli in larvae of Sipuncula are homologous with the cerebral inverted pigment cup ocelli of larvae of Polychaeta.
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    Ultrastructure and function of the pharynx of Gnathostomula paradoxa (Gnathostomulida) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 135-145 
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    Notes: Abstract  The pharynx of Gnathostomula paradoxa consists of the partly syncytial pharyngeal musculature, a pharyngeal epithelium, myoepitheliocytes, receptors, nerves, and three solid parts, called the jugum, the basal plate, and the jaw. Extended non-contractile regions of both pharyngeal and body wall musculature form the so-called parenchymatous tissue between the digestive tract and the body wall. The pharyngeal epithelium mediates the force from the pharyngeal musculature to the solid parts. The basal plate and jaw contain longitudinal cuticular rods which are elastic antagonists of the musculature. There is no buccal ganglion in G. paradoxa. The study supports the monophyly of the Gnathostomulida and Gnathifera.
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    Detection of distinct endocytotic and phagocytotic activities in epithelial cells (pinacocytes) of freshwater sponges (Porifera, Spongillidae) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 121-134 
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    Notes: Abstract  Light and electron microscopical investigations using externally applied fluorescent and gold-labeled markers have revealed the existence of distinct endocytotic and phagocytotic activities in basal epithelial cells (pinacocytes) of the freshwater sponges Spongilla lacustris and Ephydatia es) of the f. The total rate of endocytotic membrane uptake, ascertained by the application of the cationic lipid probe TMA-DPH, was found to be 3.2% of the cell surface area/h. A typical fluid-phase endocytosis, demonstrated by the use of the water-soluble membrane-impermeable tracers BCECF-dextran and LY-CH, participates in endocytotic activity at a rate of 0.7% of the cell surface area/h and results in the formation of endosomes measuring 0.8–1 μm in diameter. Moreover, the application of labeled BSA succeeded in the detection of a receptor-mediated endocytosis amounting to a concentration-dependent uptake of 2.3–2.8% of the cell surface area/h. Coated pits and coated vesicles conveying the adsorbed BSA measure 0.3 μm in diameter and are covered on the cytoplasmic face with a clathrin-like protein (HC, 180 kDa; LC, 30 kDa). To facilitate phagocytotic activities, a series of fluorescent–labeled and chemically treated particles such as bacteria or latex beads have been successfully employed. Accordingly, the measured values of phagocytic membrane uptake between 1 and 8% of the cell surface area/h depend on the variety of size as well as the chemical nature of the different bioparticles and clearly point to phagocytosis as a key mechanism for providing freshwater sponges with nourishment.
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    Epidermis and sensory receptors of Temnocephala minor (Plathelminthes, Rhabdocoela, Temnocephalida): an electron microscopic study (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 147-154 
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    Notes: Abstract  The epidermis, rhabditic glands and receptors of the commensal flatworm Temnocephala minor are described using electron microscopic techniques. The epidermis is syncytial and non-ciliated at the anterior body end; it bears folds, microvilli and other structures which differ according to the body side. The nuclei are located intraepithelially and distally from the basal membrane. Long cilia occur at the posterior end anteriorly from the sucker. All receptor structures described belong to a single morphological type and stand in groups arising from epidermal pits. On the tentacles these groups are regularly distributed. Each receptor has a single cilium and a long rootlet. More than 15 000 receptors of this type have been estimated to occur on the surface of a single medium-sized specimen of T. minor. Although the total number of receptor structures appears very high, the number of different receptor types is extremely low in comparison to other taxa of flatworms.
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    Precursor structures and evolution of tympanal organs in Lepidoptera (Insecta, Pterygota) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 155-164 
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    Notes: Abstract  The patterns of scolopal organs and their innervation were studied by the methylene blue method in larvae, pupae and adults of an Yponomeuta species (Yponomeutidae) and of tympanate adult representatives of the Noctuoidea, Geometridae, Drepanidae and Pyraloidea. The studies were focused mainly on the mesothorax, the metathorax and some anterior abdominal segments. In the abdominal tympanal organs of Geometridae, Drepanidae and Pyraloidea, the auditory scolopidia are homologous with the lateral scolopal organs of the first abdominal segment; however, the hearing organs as such evolved independently in the three taxa. The studies confirm that the tympanal organ in the Noctuoidea is derived from the caudal dorsolateral region of the metathorax including its dorsal scolopal organ and the B-cell. The adult scolopal organs are present already in the larvae and are maintained nearly unchanged during metamorphosis to the adult. Only in the Noctuoidea are the three sensory cells of the larval scolopal organs, which become part of the tympanal organs, reduced to one (in Notodontidae) or two (in other Noctuoidea) during metamorphosis. A hypothetical scenario of the evolution of the tympanal organs is outlined.
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    Functional morphology of the tentacles and tentilla of Coeloplana bannworthi (Ctenophora, Platyctenida), an ectosymbiont of Diadema setosum (Echinodermata, Echinoida) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 165-174 
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    Notes: Abstract  The tentacular apparatus of Coeloplana bannworthi consists of a pair of tentacles which bear, on their ventral side, numerous tentilla. Each tentacle extends from and retracts into a tentacular sheath. Tentacles and tentilla are made up of an axial core covered by an epidermis. The epidermis includes six cell types: covering cells, two types of gland cells (mucous cells and granular gland cells), two types of sensory cells (ciliated cells and hoplocytes), and collocytes, this last cell type being exclusively found in the tentilla. The core is made up of a fibrillar matrix, the mesoglea, which is crossed by nerve processes and two kinds of smooth muscle cells. Regular muscle cells are present in both the tentacles and tentilla while giant muscle cells occur exclusively in the tentilla. The retraction of the tentacular apparatus is an active phenomenon due to the contraction of both types of muscle cells. The extension is a passive phenomenon that occurs when the muscle cells relax. Tentacles and tentilla first extend slightly due to the rebound elasticity of the mesogleal fibers and then drag forces exerted by the water column enable the tentacular apparatus to lengthen totally. Once the tentacles and tentilla are extended, gland cells, sensory cells, and collocytes are exposed to the water column. Any swimming planktonic organism may stimulate the sensory cilia which initiates tentillum movements. Pegs of hoplocytes can then more easily contact the prey which results in a slight elevation of the nearby collocytes, the last being responsible for gluing the prey to the tentilla.
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    Ultrastructure of CaCO3 deposits of terrestrial isopods (Crustacea, Oniscidea) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 181-187 
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    Notes: Abstract  The ultrastructure of the sternal CaCO3 deposits of 3 species of the Diplochaeta and 15 of the Crinochaeta was investigated by means of scanning electron microscopy of fractured surfaces. In the Diplochaeta Li-gia italica and L. oceanica, the deposits consist exclusively of individual spherules with diameters between 0.2 and 1.4 μm. No material was observed within the spaces between the spherules. In Ligidium hypnorum, two structurally distinct regions exist. A proximal layer resembling the deposit of Ligia italica and L. oceanica and a distal layer in which the spherules appear to be fused with each other. In the species of the Crinochaeta, the CaCO3 deposits comprise a spherular region which resembles the deposits of Ligidium hypnorum, and a homogeneous layer located between the spherular part of the deposit and the hypodermal cell layer. In some species the diameters of the spherules may be up to 3.1 μm. In the homogeneous layer and the distal spherular layer more calcium per volume can be stored than in the proximal spherular layer in which the spaces between the spherules are devoid of CaCO3. This suggests that the multiple layered deposits are an adaptation to terrestrial life, as a consequence of the need for increased resorption of cuticular calcium.
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    Ultrastructural characterization of the gonads of Triops cancriformis (Crustacea, Notostraca) from populations containing both females and males: no evidence for hermaphroditic reproduction (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 175-180 
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    Notes: Abstract  The gonads of female and male Triops cancriformis specimens from populations of the northern part of the species distribution area were examined by conventional transmission electron microscopy in order to gain insight into the complicated reproductive mode of the species. Ovarian follicles consisted of an oocyte and three nurse cells and were surrounded by a thin layer of follicular cells. Oocytes are initially smaller than nurse cells and contained mitochondria of the cristae type as well as many free ribosomes. The prominent nucleus contained a nucleolus. The cytoplasm of oocytes was filled with yolk globules that were surrounded by membranes of the endoplasmic reticulum. Nurse cells also contained yolk globules. The follicle duct walls consisted of closely packed elongated cells covered by a lamellar basal lamina. No distinct Golgi apparatus was found in the follicle duct cells. The passage of oocytes through the duct was accompanied by a marked flattening of the follicle duct cells. Simultaneously, the oocytes were wrapped in eggshell material before entering the longitudinal oviduct. Testicular lobes were not found in any of the investigated female specimens. In male animals, the epithelial wall of the testicular tubules consisted of both germinal and vegetative cells. Maturing spermatids formed multicellular nests located in clearly delimited cysts in the intercellular space of the testicular epithelium. The lumen of the testicular tubules contained, exclusively, free mature spermatozoa. These characteristics point to the cystic type of spermiogenesis. Mature spermatozoa were non-flagellate, had a regular ovoid shape of 4–5 μm diameter, and an acrosome was not found. Only a negligible amount of spermatozoa (〈 5%) showed signs of degeneration. In conclusion, the results provide evidence for a parthenogenetic and/or bisexual reproduction mode rather than a hermaphroditic one in the populations examined.
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    The male and female first instar larvae of Anaphes victus and A. listronoti (Hymenoptera, Mymaridae) (1997)
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    Zoomorphology 117 (1997), S. 189-197 
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    Notes: Abstract  Anaphes victus and A. listronoti are two closely related species, respectively solitary and gregarious parasitoids of eggs of the carrot weevil Listronotus oregonensis (Coleoptera, Curculionidae). Both species are sympatric, and the regulation of super- and multiparasitism that occurs regularly in this host is done by larval fights between the mymariform first instar larvae. The morphology of both male and female first instar larvae of A. victus and A. listronoti is described using scanning electron microscopy. Both species have first instar larvae of the mymariform type and present sexual dimorphism. The main difference between the two species is that larvae of A. victus are clearly segmented while larvae of A. listronoti show no visible segmentation. Male larvae of both species have two types of perioral hooks, longer and less dense dorsal setae than females and developed undertail spines. Female larvae of both species have short abdominal setae. These morphological differences are discussed in the context of intra- and interspecific larval competition.
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    Editorial (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 1-1 
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    Dimensional changes and creep of spruce, and consequent model requirements (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 3-16 
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    Notes: Summary The author gives numerical data resulting from detailed measurements on a common softwood,Picea abies; which can form the basis for the verification of new structural models of wood cell walls. Some suggestions are made for the interpretation of the data, including the development of internal stresses followed by relaxation, molecular destabilisation followed by physical aging during moisture changes, and differing forms of moisture bonding.
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    A kinetic study of the acetylation of cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin components in wood (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 45-50 
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    Notes: Abstract The rates of acetylation of Deal, Larch, Southern Yellow Pine and Sitka Spruce using acetic anhydride in xylene have been measured and compared with the composition of the woods. Although these woods have similar macroscopic characteristics, the correlation between rate of acetylation and composition remains unclear, although the holocellulose may play a role in converting the hydrophilic hydroxyl groups to hydrophobic acetyl groups. The rate of acetylation of Larch at 373 K was insignificant but the other wood samples showed significant acetylation at this temperature. The activation energies for the acetylation process suggest that several routes may be involved.
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    Tangential and radial deformation field measurements on wood during drying (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 35-44 
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    Notes: Summary In a previous study, the deformation field measurement method on wood during drying was described. This paper discusses the deformation field measurement results during drying to 8.2% moisture content on the radial and tangential surfaces. It also attempts to explain the observations by an approximate expression based onearlywood-latewood interaction theory. The deformation on the radial surface varied between −0.7% and 7.5%. The actual measurements on the radial surfaces support previous work. Deformation measurements on the tangential surfaces were between −0.5% and 9.0%. Although the investigations were carried out on gross wood specimens, the results provide an insight into the extent to which local density variation within the early- and latewood layers may influence the magnitude of surface deformation.
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    The evaporation of water from wood at high temperatures (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 73-76 
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    Notes: Summary When predicting the performance of wood drying processes, film coefficients for heat and mass transfer are among the parameters that need to be estimated. Customary methods such as the use of the Lewis relation were originally derived for vapour pressures which were small compared with atmospheric pressure. For high temperature drying of wood it is necessary to extend the associated psychrometric equation to one of more general applicability. Such extension is the subject of this paper. Essential to the analysis is the determination of the rate of change of vapour pressure with temperature adjacent to the wood surface. It is found that when the vapour pressure is not assumed small compared with atmospheric pressure, the above gradient contains a factor P - po where P is the atmospheric pressure and po is the free stream vapour pressure. At high temperatures and humidities, this factor becomes important and the film coefficient for mass transfer increases without limit.
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    Variations and correlations of various ring width and ring density features in European oak: implications in dendroclimatology (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 63-72 
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    Notes: Summary Variations and correlations of various ring width and ring density features were analyzed in 18 European oak (Quercus petraea andQuercus robur) trees from northeastern France. In light of these analyses, the goodness of various tree-ring features as a climatic parameter was discussed. In general, ring density features (viz. earlywood density, latewood density, average ring density, minimum density and maximum density) show a stronger response to calendar year, a comprehensive climatic variable, than ring width features (viz. earlywood width, latewood width, total ring width and latewood percent). The response of latewood features (viz. latewood width, latewood density and maximum latewood density) is stronger than that of earlywood features (viz. earlywood width, earlywood density and minimum earlywood density). Average ring density seems to be the most sensible tree-ring feature in European oak in terms of the response to calendar year. Moreover, total ring width as a climatic parameter is not as good as latewood width, and maximum (latewood) density and minimum (earlywood) density appears not to contain as much climatic information as (average) latewood density and (average) earlywood density, respectively.
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    Estimating the wettability of wood by the axisymmetric Drop Shape Analysis-contact diameter method (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 87-95 
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    Notes: Summary The wettability of four wood species was determined by the Axisymmetric Drop Shape Analysis-contact diameter (ADSA-CD) technique. The ADSACD technique calculates the contact angle by solving the Laplace equation of capillary given the following variables: contact diameter, volume of the liquid drop, liquid surface tension, density difference between the two fluid phases and the gravity constant. The liquid surface tension, density, and gravity are known. The volume of the liquid sessile drop is obtained by means of a micrometer screw syringe. The contact diameter, the only main experimentally determinable variable is obtained by manually selecting an arbitrary set of coordinates characterizing the perimeter of the sessile drop. The ADSA-CD technique was used on four wood species (pine, cedar, ash and elm) and it was found to be a simple, adaptable, and excellent tool for measuring the contact angles on wood surfaces.
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    Longitudinal hardness and Young's modulus of spruce tracheid secondary walls using nanoindentation technique (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 131-141 
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    Notes: Summary Using a mechanical properties microprobe, measurements of hardness and elastic modulus of tracheid walls in the longitudinal direction of spruce wood were obtained by continuously measuring force and displacement as a diamond indenter impressed a cell wall. Maximum mechanical properties were found at the edges of the walls of angular shaped tracheids. Both the hardness and elastic modulus of latewood cell walls were higher than cell walls in the earlywood. The high spatial resolution of this new concept of mechanical testing allows a direct comparison with ultrastructural and microchemical parameters of lignified cells which opens a wider area of applications for the understanding of intrinsic wood properties.
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    Hormonal physiology of wood growth in willow (Salix viminalis L.): effects of spermine and abscisic acid (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 119-130 
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    Notes: Summary Willow cuttings from two-year-old twigs were grown in nutrient solution alone, nutrient solution with 0.1 mM abscisic acid or with the spermine. Roots and leaves emerged within three weeks and the cambium was activated in the shoot. In most cases earlywood was generated, even when the seedlings were made in late summer. In contrast to plantlets grown in regular nutrient solution, those treated with hormones either inhibited (ABA) or advanced (spermine) the formation of roots, leaves and wood. In addition, SEM observations of wood were combined with autoradiographic studies and metabolite analysis.14C-labeled photoassimilates from the leaves were unloaded from the phloem of the shoots and transported via the rays into the cambial zone and the xylem. In spermine treated plants labeled assimilates were highly concentrated in all cells of the newly built xylem. However, cells from plants treated with abscisic acid appeared only weakly labeled. Quantitative analysis of the assimilates after two-dimensional thin-layer chromatography showed that wood from spermine-treated plants accumulated 19% more assimilates than the control, while xylem from ABA-treated plants imported 81% less labeled compounds from the phloem. Thus, the results strongly support the view that hormones play a key role in wood formation.
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    Vessels as surface stress raisers during drying ofEucalyptus diversicolor F. Muell (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 171-179 
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    Notes: Summary When surface checks form in karri (Eucalyptus diversicolor F. Muell), they almost invariably do so in the bottoms of vessels exposed on the surfaces of the boards. It is postulated that the vessels act as stress raisers, and thus surface checks form at lower values of average surface stress and strain than they would otherwise. Surface checks were seen to form at acoustic emission levels approximately one-third of those corresponding to surface check formation in other eucalypts. Analytical and finite element stress analysis techniques suggested a stress concentration factor at the bottoms of the vessels of approximately three. A trial drying of karri showed a close correlation between predicted surface instantaneous strain using the stress concentration factor found from the stress analysis in a model of drying timber, and measured acoustic emissions.
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    Wood specific gravity-mechanical property relationship at species level (1997)
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    Notes: Summary Based on the data set of specimen tests on 16 timber species belonging to four distinct wood categories, the specific gravity-mechanical property relationship at species level was examined, and differences in the relationship between species from distinct wood categories were discussed. The linear equation (S =a +bG) was compared with the curvilinear one (S = αGβ) in terms of the goodness at predicting mechanical properties through specific gravity at species level. The specific gravity-mechanical property relationship, to a differing extent, varies with mechanical properties and wood categories. Among three mechanical properties studied, MOR is most closely and almost linearly related to specific gravity, followed by Cmax, whereas MOE is poorly and least linearly related to specific gravity. In general, the relationship between MOE and specific gravity in a species from the ring-porous category is stronger than in a species from the diffuse-porous category. It appears that Cmax in a species from the second softwood category and the ring-porous category is more closely related to specific gravity than in a species from the first softwood category and the diffuse-porous category, respectively. In addition, MOE in a softwood species is generally less related to specific gravity as compared to a hardwood species. Yet, Cmax in a softwood species appears more closely related to specific gravity. Overall, the curvilinear equation is better than the linear one at predicting mechanical properties (especially MOE) in a species.
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    Ozone organosolv bleaching of radiata pine kraft pulp (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 217-223 
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    Notes: Summary The effect of organic solvents on the selectivity and brightness of high consistency ozone bleaching of radiata pine Kraft-oxygen pulp was investigated. Among several organic compounds, formic acid is the most attractive one, as this solvent improves ozone delignification and, efficiency and also prevents cellulose degradation. The selectivity at different ozone concentrations (1.1–1.7%) shows that formic acid increases the amount of ozone transferred and its accessibility to lignin. A peroxide stage (P) was carried out after ozonation (Z). The ZP sequence was used to reach high brightness (83.1%) pulp.
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    Relationship between various extracted basic densities and wood chemical components inEucalyptus camaldulensis (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 205-216 
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    Notes: Summary Relationship between various extracted basic densities and wood chemical components were investigated by their within-tree variations inEucalyptus camaldulensis for assistance in the prediction of the properties of wood or wood derived products. Within-tree variation was not observed for basic density because extraneous compounds masked it. However, extractives-free basic density, total extractives-free basic density and extraneous compounds-free basic density were high on the bark side and top parts in the trunk. These extracted basic densities were expected to have significant relationships to the fiber morphology causing the within-tree variations, and to be very important factors for wood industries. These relationships were sought by correlations between extracted basic densities and wood chemical components based on their within-tree variations. Furthermore, fair relationships between extracted basic densities and hemicellulose composition were observed and speculation made as to the relationship to the constituent ratio of cell wall layers.
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    Applications of the capillary isotherm (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 317-330 
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    Notes: Abstract The effect of temperature on the capillary isotherm is accounted for in a modified derivation. Some new equilibrium moisture content data for E. regnans are presented and fitted by the capillary isotherm. Some earlier data for Klinki pine are also fitted. It is shown precisely how reductions in the shear modulus of the cell wall material with increasing temperature give rise to reductions in equilibrium moisture content for a given relative humidity.
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    Wetting of wood (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 339-353 
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    Notes: Summary Thermodynamic work of adhesion, contact angle, wettability and acid-base contributions of the wetting of four North American wood species were determined using the Wilhelmy technique. The wetting angles with water varied from 60° for Sitka spruce to 74° for Douglas-fir. The wood surfaces had a strong acidic character since the greatest interactions for all the wood species occurred with formamide (basic probe) while lesser interactions were obtained with ethylene glycol (acidic probe). In addition, dispersive and polar surface free energies of wood, γ d s and γ p s respectively, were determined using Wu's simultaneous equations. In general, 75 to 80% of the total surface free energy of wood was due to dispersion forces. Specific wettabilities of wood and advancing contact angles in thirty various organic liquids were also evaluated.
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    RIP-X: Decision software to compare crosscut-first and rip-first rough mill systems (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 367-380 
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    Notes: Abstract RIP-X is software which was developed to simulate the rough mill cutup of lumber. It determines the yields of the current and least-cost grade mixes for both the crosscut-first system and the rip-first system. A statistical comparison of the crosscut-first and rip-first current yields is made. The least-cost grade mix is determined by a linear programming model incorporated into the software. Validation of the RIP-X linear programming model was performed by comparing its results to results from an existing model. When the parts' lengths were restricted to the existing model's constraints, the RIP-X results did not differ significantly from the existing model's results. Comparison of current available model results with the unrestricted RIP-X model, indicated that previous models have provided sub-optimal solutions because of maximum parts' length restrictions in some lumber grades. Field tests were conducted to determine the accuracy of the crosscut-first and rip-first simulations in rough mills. The yield estimates from the crosscut-first and rip-first simulations did not differ significantly from the actual rough mill yields.
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    Moisture flow characteristics during radio frequency vacuum drying of thick lumber (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 265-277 
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    Notes: Summary Thick specimens of two softwoods were dried in a laboratory radio frequency/vacuum (RF/V) kiln in order to investigate the internal moisture flow patterns. The spatial moisture distributions in the longitudinal arid transverse directions were monitored as a function of time in a number of runs. The results indicated that both longitudinal and transverse moisture transfer modes contribute on the overall moisture flow occurring within wood, but there was no distinction as to the percentage contribution of each to the overall flux. There were no abrupt drying front changes and no moisture discontinuities observed during drying. A second group of runs was also carried out using end-matched specimens to study its length effects on drying characteristics, such as drying rate, and internal vapor pressure and temperature profiles. The results demonstrated that short specimens dried faster than long ones at moisture contents above the fiber saturation point.
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    Optimising ash wood chairs (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 291-301 
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    Notes: Abstract In Sweden, forest research has been emphasised on mainly two species of wood, i.e. pine and spruce. However, we have also a number of hardwoods which could be utilised for furniture manufacturing, cabinets etc. Nowadays, these hardwoods are a slumbering resource in our country. Most of our broad leafed species are found as small stands inside our soft wood forests and hence not utilised in the most profitable way. For example, much of our birch wood is ground to paper fibres even if it would be perfect for high valued veneer. Instead, most of our birch. veneer is imported from Finland. In order to increase the interest for Swedish hardwoods we therefore have started research in this field and have now designed a chair made of ash wood,Fraxinus excelsior. Most chairs are made up of structural elements called indetermined frames which makes it a rather tedious task to analyse the internal forces in the frame. However, by using the Finite Element Method, FEM, it has been possible to reduce this drawback. This paper shows how a chair could be analysed, and designed, by use of methods common in other disciplines than furniture manufacturing. We also present results, in the form of stress-strain diagrams, from tests made on Swedish ash.
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    Mechano-sorptive effects on timber creep (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 331-335 
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    Notes: Summary Fick's law of predicting the moisture content of beams, combined with a simple mechano-sorptive model is applied to the analysis of creep resulting from moisture variations due to changing environmental conditions. The natural climatic conditions are modelled with the daily and annual cyclic variations represented by sine waves. As the moisture change responding to varying climatic conditions is always greater near the boundaries of a timber section, the creep rate close to the surface layer is higher than that in the middle of the cross-section. Therefore with time, an increased portion of the load will be carried by the inner part of the material.
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    Declared value for the thermal conductivity coefficient of insulation corkboard (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 355-365 
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    Notes: Summary This study presents the results of a set of tests for the determination of the thermal conductivity coefficient of samples extracted from boards of Insulation Corkboard (ICB) withdrawn from the usual production of the seven portuguese factories. These tests were carried out as a part of an interlaboratorial study integrated in the standardization program for cork of the sub-comission 4 of The National Technical Committee of Standardization (CT 16), in which participated the Cork Technological Centre (CTCOR), the National Laboratory of Civil Enginneering (LNEC) and the National Institute of Engineering and Industrial Technology (INETI). The purpose of this study aimed to contribute to the definition of the “declared value” of this thermal property to be included in the future European Standard (EN) specifying the characteristics of ICB for thermal insulating of buildings which is in preparation in the 88Th Technical Committee of The European Committee of Standardization CEN/TC-88 (CEN 1995). In view of the results, the declared value of thermal conductivity proposed was 0.045 W/m. °C.
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    Kinetics of wood degradation by fungi with x-ray microdensitometric technique (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 383-389 
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    Notes: Summary X-ray microdensitometric analysis was employed for the detection of fungi attack in wood of pine and beech in comparison with the studies of specimen weight loss tests. Two species of fungi were used:Gloeophyllum trabeum (Pers.:Fr. Murrill) andTrametes versicolor (L.:Fr. Pilat). We select these species to induce typical decay attack mainly on cellulose in pine (brown rot) and mainly on lignin in beech (white rot). The attack was conducted for 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 months in sterile laboratory conditions. After 5 months all the values of density components decreased. In beech the loss was of about 25% for all components. In pine the decreasing of the earlywood density component was of about 10% and in latewood of about 22%. The corresponding mass density losses, determined by gravimetric method, were approximately 18% for beech and 16% for pine.
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    Failure analysis of laminated timber beams reinforced with glass fibre composites (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 17-34 
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    Notes: Summary A qualitative analysis is presented of failure, perpendicular to the grain, in laminated timber reinforced with a glass fibre composite. The study is focused on beams with holes of different shape. The stress by corners, infinitesimal cracks and finite cracks are investigated. An initial crack model is suggested that brings about some of the phenomena observed in earlier performed experiments. A crack appears to propagate in the wood but is retarded in the reinforced beams. Eventually, the composite will fracture and failure of the beam follows. Finite element computations suggest that the reinforcement decreases the stress intensity at cracks in the wood and acts as a crack stopper. The reinforcing effect increases with the crack length. A point stress criterion is used to predict failure in the fibre composite.
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    Study of the release in water of chemicals used for wood preservation. Effect of wood dimensions (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 51-62 
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    Notes: Summary Various chemicals are used for protecting wood samples against fungi, and some of them are released in water, leading to pollution of the water. The kinetics of pentachlorophenol release in water has here been studied by considering the diffusion through the wood along the three principal axes of diffusion. The experiments and the modelling of the process is successfully coupled. The numerical model takes into account the three principal diffusivities, the partition factor, the volumes of wood and water. The effect of wood sample length along the longitudinal axis of diffusion is studied especially, as longitudinal diffusivity is much higher than the other two principal diffusivities. The effects of the relative volumes of wood and water are also of considerable interest not only for the concentration of the chemical in water but also for the rate of release.
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    The fibrillar orientation in the S2-layer of wood fibres as determined by X-ray diffraction analysis (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 77-86 
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    Notes: Summary It is the fibrillar orientation in the S2-layer which to a great extent determines the mechanical properties of the wood fibre, with regard both to strength and stiffness and to swelling properties. Measurements of the average fibril angle of fibres are not however easy and the results differ between the methods used. In order to evaluate in more detail how the fibril angle varies in spruce wood, an X-ray method based on diffraction from the 040-plane was developed. By comparison with microscopic examination it is concluded that reliable results relating to the fibrillar orientation in the S2-layer are obtained with the X-ray technique. It is shown that the fibril angle of mature wood is rather constant with regard to both age of the annual ring and its position in the height of the tree. The fibril angle of the earlywood is found to be only slightly higher than that of latewood fibres. It is also shown that compression wood may be easily identified by virtue of the fact that its fibril angle is much higher than that of normal mature wood.
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    The effect of acetylation on the mechanical properties, hydrophobicity, and dimensional stability ofPinus sylvestris (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 97-104 
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    Notes: Summary Strips and blocks ofPinus sylvestris were acetylated for different periods of time. These, along with control samples, were tested for their tensile modulus, hydrophobicity and dimensional stability. The modulus of elasticity (tensile modulus) for each sample was derived using a statistical approach. The observations in this work suggest that the acetylation process significantly reduces the tensile modulus of the wood compared to its untreated state in an irreversible manner, and that the extent of the deterioration in tensile modulus is a function of the acetylation conditions. Acetylation improved significantly the hydro-phobicity and the dimensional stability of the wood as measured by the roll angle and swelling tests respectively. It appears therefore that acetylation using acetic anhydride in xylene has an optimum set of reaction conditions that compromise between the gains in water repellence and dimensional stability with the deterioration in mechanical properties.
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    Effects of temperature and sulfonation on shear deformation of spruce wood (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 105-117 
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    Notes: Summary The effects of temperature and sulfonation on the deformation of spruce wood at conditions comparable to those during screw press impregnation prior to mechanical pulping were studied using a dynamic testing method. In addition to the physical properties of wood, shear fracture surfaces obtained at different deformation temperatures and at different sulfonation levels were studied using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The results showed that the failure energy of wood decreased gradually with increased deformation temperature in the tested range of 20–95 °C, due to thermal softening of the material. In addition to thermal treatment, the failure energy could also be reduced by sulfite treatment of the wood before deformation, and decreased with increasing sulfonation degree. The SEM analysis showed that increasing the deformation temperature causes the fracture plane to travel around the fiber walls instead of through them, thus exposing a smoother wood surface with less fiber damage. At a given deformation temperature, particularly at the lower temperatures, sulfonation improves fiber separation.
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    Theory of X-ray measurement of microfibril angle in wood (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 143-152 
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    Notes: Summary The property of fibre symmetry as exhibited by wood cellulose can be used to derive an explicit relationship between the orientation of a cellulose microfibril and the orientation of the X-ray beam diffracted by any of its crystallographic planes. The solution applies to a microfibril of any orientation and so is well suited to evaluating the microfibril angle distribution in wood containing cells of any cross-sectional shape. The (002) and (040) reflections of cellulose have complementary properties that could be exploited to enable current problems associated with the use of each individually for evaluating the mean microfibril angle of the S2 layer to be overcome. It is expected that it will be possible to measure the microfibril angle distribution throughout the whole cell wall and also measure the average cell cross-section of a wood sample, by analysing (002) and (040) diffraction profiles in conjunction with each other.
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    Ultrastructure of pits inPinus banksiana lamb (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 153-169 
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    Notes: Summary The cross-sectional view of pitting between various cell types inPinus banksiana Lamb. was studied at the ultrastructural level. Cell types inPinus banksiana include longitudinal tracheids, ray tracheids, ray parenchyma cells, “buffer cells” and epithelial cells. Two common characteristic features of bordered pit-pairs between longitudinal tracheids are an initial pit border and a thickened torus at the center of the pit membrane. The shape and size of the pit border and torus of bordered pit-pairs between two compression wood cells, and between the last-formed latewood longitudinal tracheid and first-formed earlywood longitudinal tracheid were different from those in the earlywood and latewood longitudinal tracheids. The pit border on the ray tracheid side varied in size and shape due to wall dentation. No initial pit border was found on the pit border of the ray tracheid side. The shape of bordered pit-pairs between two ray tracheids varied considerably due to irregularity of the dentate cell wall. The size of bordered pit-pairs in longitudinal tracheids was between 16 μm to 20 μm, which was twice the diameter of bordered pit-pairs in ray tracheids. Bordered pitpairs at the end wall of two ray tracheids appeared to be the smallest at 5 μm, Pit aspiration occurred in the bordered pit-pairs with or without a torus. In the heartwood zone, some half-borders pit-pairs between tracheary and ray parenchyma cells showed an additional secondary wall on the ray parenchyma cell side. Plasmodesmata were found in the half-bordered pit-pairs as well in the simple pit-pairs. Blind pits were observed between a ray tracheid and a longitudinal tracheid. Bordered pit-pairs between two “buffer cells” were also observed. The possible functions of buffer cells were discussed.
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    Hygromechanical behaviour of wooden composites (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 193-204 
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    Notes: Summary The objective of this research is to study the moisture deformation of densified in technological pressing wooden composite materials. By generalizing Cosserat's couple-stress theory a structural model for determination of mid-surface strains and curvatures of composite board taking into account asymmetric structure and nonuniform distribution of moisture as well as nonlinear swelling functions of the wooden stuff and dependence of strain characteristics on moisture content is developed. On the basis of a laminate analogy the optimum flake or veneer alignment in board has been estimated for the real composite production process. According to analysis performed, the optimum alignment for hygromechanical properties may not coincide with that for mechanical properties, and for every type of loading, material with a definite structure should be used.
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    New biomarkers of the extinct speciesTaxodioxylori gypsaceum (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 311-315 
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    Notes: Summary The occurrence of layers of wood material beneath the soil of the fossil forest of Dunarobba (Italy) has provided the opportunity to study a differently degraded wood formed in the same environment of the fossil forest. The samples of subsoil have almost completely lost their polyose and cellulose fractions and, moreover, were deprived of most of their low and medium MW terpenes so that some phenolic diterpenes were revealed. The identified ones were ferruginol, podocarpodiol, traces of sugiol and a compound whose mass spectrum shows some similarities with that of sugiol. A family of compounds with ketonic structure was also detected: in particular tridecanone, pentadecanone and heptadecanone.
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    Probing red maple pit membrane pore size at fiber saturation point and oven dry using polystyrene macromolecules (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 235-240 
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    Notes: Summary A modified solute exclusion technique was used to pressure impregnate a polystyrene molecular weight (MW) series dissolved in styrene into red maple samples at approximately the fiber saturation point (FSP) and oven dry (OD). Radial penetration was less than tangential and FSP less than OD. There was a marked change in radial OD penetration at 900,000 MW. There was no marked penetration change with MW in the tangential direction, although there appeared to be a slight decrease in FSP penetration at the higher MW tested.
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    Transverse shrinkage in maritime pine juvenile wood (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 251-264 
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    Notes: Summary This paper reports experimental results concerning the transverse shrinkage variability within and between trees of two samples composed of 17 eleven-year-old and 20 twenty-year-old maritime pine trees harvested in two stands at the Forest Research Centre of INRA Pierroton in Aquitaine. The within tree variations are divided into a height effect and a radial effect, both related to the occurrence of juvenile wood. It is shown that the tangential shrinkage and the anisotropic ratio between radial and tangential dimensional variations are increasing from the top to the base of the stems (+14.9% and +16.9%, respectively), and that this effect is independent of the tree. The variations from the pith outward are also significant for these parameters (+25.0% for at and −9.5% for the ratio) and for the radial shrinkage (+37.2% ), but in this case, the amplitude of the effect is depending on a tree effect. The relationship between shrinkage and density is also studied, showing poorly significant correlation when considering each sampling positions independently.
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    Bonding characteristics of adhesive/particle joints (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 303-309 
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    Notes: Summary The bonding characteristics of adhesive/substrate was investigated using IR spectroscopic technique. Delignified saw-dust was employed as wood substrate. A bond linkage of $$C - O - C$$ type with significant absorption at 1150 cm−1 wave number was observed. The absence of absorption at 1420 cm−1 showed the consumption of phenolic hydroxyl group in the $$C - O - C$$ bond formation. Chemisorption constant of $$log k = - 2.42$$ was observed and a chemisorption isotherm of $$y = 0.0038x + 0.38$$ with a weak positive correlation coefficient was established.
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    Dissolution and dispersion of spruce wood components into hot water (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 279-290 
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    Notes: Summary The dissolution and dispersion of components from Norway spruce (Picea abies) wood were examined in laboratory experiments to determine the factors influencing variations in dissolved and colloidal substances in mechanical pulp suspensions. Finely ground, fresh spruce wood was suspended in water at 90 °C and was agitated intensively for up to 12 h, after which the concentrations of dissolved and dispersed lipophilic extractives, lignans, carbohydrates and lignins were determined. Sapwood and heartwood were studied separately. Effects of pH and added electrolytes on the dissolution and dispersion of wood components were also investigated. Higher amounts of lipophilic extractives, and especially of triglycerides, were dispersed from sapwood than from heartwood. The release of lipophilic extractives continued for up to 3 h, after which the concentrations in the suspensions leveled off. At this stage the composition of the dissolved and dispersed lipophilic extractives equaled that of the wood. The amount of lipophilic extractives in the suspensions increased with increased pH, in the range of 4.5–6.7, but was lower in the presence of electrolytes. The dissolution of carbohydrates continued even beyond 3 h of agitation. The high water temperature induced hydrolytic reactions, thereby releasing especially arabinose. The release of arabinose through the hydrolytic cleavage from polysaccharides was more extensive at pH 4.5 than at pH 5.5 and 6.7. More polysaccharides containing galacturonic acid units (pectins) were dissolved at a higher pH. Much more polysaccharides containing glucose, most probably starch, were present in the sapwood suspensions. The dissolution of lignins also continued throughout the 12 h experiment. The measured UV-absorption, after extraction of lignans, was roughly the same for sapwood and heartwood suspensions. Slightly less lignins were released in the presence of electrolytes. Lignans were released only from heartwood.
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    Theory of X-ray measurement of microfibril angle in wood (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 225-234 
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    Notes: Summary A diffraction intensity function for material bodies composed of arrays of crystalline fibres such as occurs with the cellulose of wood has been derived. It is implied in the analysis that the crystalline fibres making up the body have fibre symmetry- that there is a tendency for groups of fibres to have one set of crystal axes parallel while in the orthogonal direction the axes assume a low degree of order. It is further assumed that the patterns of the angular arrangement of the fibre groups relative to one axis of the body is independent of the direction about that axis. These conditions are believed to be compatible with the cellulosic structure found in wood. Thus it becomes possible to calculate the expected diffraction intensity profiles of realistic (and therefore complex) models of wood. This has aided the interpretation of the reflections from the (040) crystal planes of cellulose which are contaminated by low level reflections from other crystal planes, and it has been found that it might be possible by conjoint analysis of the paratropic (002) reflections and the diatropic (040) reflections to measure the complete cell wall planar microfibril angle distribution and the shape of the cell wall cross-section.
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    Effect of radial increment core diameter on tracheid length measurement in Norway spruce (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 241-250 
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    Notes: Abstract The effect of radial increment core diameter (comparing the effects of 12, 8 and 4 mm diameters, with sampling from chips used as a control) on the measurement of tracheid mean length and the percentage of broken tracheids was examined for mature wood of Norway spruce. Two methods of measuring tracheid length were used: image analysis, in which arithmetic mean length (AML) was calculated for unbroken tracheids, and the Kajaani FS-200, in which AML was calculated for all tracheids, regardless of damage. In addition to AML, length weighted mean length (LWML) was calculated for the Kajaani. Almost 70 % of all tracheids remained undamaged when the 12 mm increment core was used. This was 18 % units less than for chips. Proportion of broken tracheids increased as core diameter decreased, and for the 4 mm increment core 30 per cent of all tracheids remained undamaged. All increment core diameters tested gave LWML values that were significantly lower than the control. For AML by Kajaani, all mean values were about 50 percent lower than corresponding LWML or image analysis values, thus showing the direct influence of broken tracheids. However, only the 4 and 8 mm increment cores differed significantly from the control. For unbroken tracheids measured by image analysis, the 4 mm increment core gave a significantly lower value than the control, thus showing the indirect influence of broken tracheids. Values obtained from the 8 and 12 :mm increment cores did not differ significantly from the control.
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    Effect of size on the bending strength of laminated veneer lumber (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 399-413 
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    Notes: Summary The effect of size on bending strength has been experimentally determined for laminated veneer lumber. Width was found to have no effect on bending strength. The effect of depth times length on bending strength obtained by the slope method was about 0.075, which is in good agreement with the results obtained by the shape parameter method. The effect of length is somewhat more severe than the effect of depth. Size was found to have no effect on modulus of elasticity or modulus of rigidity. In addition, the relationships between bending strength, modulus of elasticity and density of laminated veneer lumber were experimentally modelled.
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    An experimental assessment of driving forces for drying in hardwoods (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 415-422 
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    Notes: Summary An investigation has been carried out into whether the internal moisture movement inside Australian hardwood timber is best described by a diffusion model with driving forces based on gradients in moisture content or in partial pressure of water vapour. Experimental data from two sets of drying schedules applied to timber from three species of Australian hardwoods (yellow stringybark, spotted gum and ironbark) reported in Langrish et al. (1997) have been used to assess the use of the two driving forces, and the standard error has been used as the criterion for goodness of fit. Moisture-content driving forces have fitted the data better than a model based on vapour-pressure driving forces alone. The use of moisture-content driving forces with diffusion parameters obtained from data from one drying schedule is also better in predicting the drying behaviour with another schedule than vapour-pressure driving forces for yellow stringybark and ironbark. These results may be due to the complexity of the moisture-movement process through timber, with more than one moisture-transport mechanism being active, so that the use of only one driving force for moisture movement is at best only an approximation to the true behaviour.
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    Attempts to understand the nature of phenolic and etherified components of wood lignin (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 433-440 
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    Notes: Summary Periodate oxidation, because of its high selectivity in degrading phenolic nuclei, has been combined with nitrobenzene oxidation and phenyl nucleus exchange techniques to investigate the nature of wood lignin in situ. For both softwood and hardwood, the phenolic and etherified components of wood lignin have been shown to differ significantly in chemical composition, and the etherified lignin structure appears to be substantially more condensed.
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    Fire-resisting properties in several TiO2 wood-inorganic composites and their topochemistry (1997)
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    Wood science and technology 31 (1997), S. 449-455 
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    Notes: Summary A study of the wood-inorganic composites prepared by the sol-gel process with a metal alkoxide indicated that an inorganic modification of wood with TiO2 gels from tetraisopropoxytitanium (TPT) can not improve its properties due to the formation of the gels in the cell lumina by high hydrolysis rate of TPT. In this study, therefore, titanium alkoxides or titanium chelates which have the lower rate of hydrolysis and subsequent polycondensation than TPT were used for preparing TiO2 wood-inorganic composites to study the topochemical effects of the TiO2 gels for the property enhancement of wood. As a result, it was found by SEM-EDXA analysis that the TiO2 gels deposited within the cell walls could improve the properties of wood in dimensional stability and fire-resistance, whereas for the gels in the cell lumina, property enhancement could not be achieved, as observed in SiO2 wood-inorganic composites.
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