20 research outputs found
M & L Jaargang 17/4
No full textRomain Berteloot en Rik Vandecaveye Het feestlokaal van Vooruit. [The party hall of Vooruit in Ghent.]Mimi Debruyn Kleuren in de Unitaswijk. [Colours in the Unitas quarter.]SummaryBinnenkran
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No full textHans Foncke en Leen Meganck De naoorlogse jaren van de Prijs Van de Ven (1950-1968): de zoektocht naar een architectuur voor de moderne tijd. [The Prijs Van de Ven. ]Mimi Debruyn en Madeleine Manderyck Renovatie en herbestemming van drie historische panden aan de Blindestraat tot Hogeschool Antwerpen. [Conversion of three historic houses in the Blindestraat to the Hogeschool Antwerpen.]Summar
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No full textDirk Van Eenhooge, Thierry Delcommune en Marcel Celis Onder het Koningsplein te Brussel: de hofkapel van Karel V. [Underneath the Royal Square in Brussels: The Court Chapel of Charles V.]Mimi Debruyn en Peter Vermeulen Van Haringrokerij naar woonproject. [The herring smokehouse.]Summar
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No full textMimi Debruyn De wondere wereld van een 18de-eeuws receptenboek voor Kunst-Schilders, Vernissers, Vergulders en Marmelaers. [The wondrous world of an 18th century book of recipes for painters, varnishers, gilders and marblers.]In 1777 publiceerden de gebroeders Gimblet in Gent een receptenboek voor de kunst- en decoratieschilders van hun tijd. Dit encyclopedisch kookboek viel onder de aandacht van Mimi Debruyn, die er enthousiast in grasduinde op zoek naar wetenswaardigheden over de materialen en technieken van de toenmalige exterieurafwerking en binneninrichting.Ilse Boeren, Kris Vandekerkhove, Sara Adriaenssens, Dries Tys, Koen Deforce, Kristof Haneca en Jan Bastiaens - Relicten van houtskoolmeilers in het Zoerselbos. [Remnants of charcoal kilns in the old woodland Zoerselbos.]Thans één van de meest waardevolle bosgebieden in Vlaanderen was het Zoerselbos, tot het begin van de 19de eeuw, het tafereel van een belangrijke economische activiteit: de productie van houtskool. De overblijfselen hiervan recent en bij toeval ontdekt zijn slechts voor een geoefend oog zichtbaar en in Vlaanderen nauwelijks gekend. In opdracht van het agentschap Ruimte en Erfgoed trok een team van wetenschappers op verder onderzoek uit en werden de meilers in het Zoerselbos geïnventariseerd, onderzocht en geëvalueerd met het oog op hun behoud voor de toekomst.Guido Cuyt Archeologisch onderzoek door vrijwilligers in Vlaanderen. [Archaeological research by voluntary workers in Flanders.]De directeur van de Nationale Dienst voor Opgravingen wist het 30 jaar geleden al: Er zijn maar twee soorten archeologen, namelijk goeie en slechte. En beide soorten vind je zowel bij de beroeps- als bij de amateurarcheologen. De amateurarcheoloog, vroeger verguisd en later geherwaardeerd, dreigt de dag van vandaag opnieuw verdrongen te worden. Is er nog een toekomst? Guido Cuyt - zelf een gepassioneerd amateurarcheoloog - schetst de evolutie van de amateurarcheologie in Vlaanderen en pleit meteen ook voor bezinning en herprofilering.Lieve Viaene-Awouters Heraldiek in Vlaanderen. Dertig jaar Vlaamse Heraldische Raad. [Heraldry in Flanders. Thirty years of Flemisch Heraldic Council.]Wapenborden en heraldische voorstellingen zijn sinds de vroege middeleeuwen in Vlaanderen van grote historische betekenis. Al 30 jaar waakt een raad van deskundigen over het historisch en heraldisch verantwoord toekennen van nieuwe wapens en over hun uniform gebruik. De raad formuleert tevens adviezen ten behoeve van de bevoegde minister en probeert een antwoord te bieden op de wildgroei aan logos die hand over hand toeneemt. Een overzicht van drie decennia Vlaamse Heraldische Raad door Lieve Viaene-Awouters.Summar
Paradised regained? : James Lee Byars Hugo De Leener Robert Garcet Hans Lemmen Anne-Mie Van Kerckhoven - 1993.
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A field investigation of the environmental factors associated with explosive seed dispersal in the dwarf mistletoe Arceuthobium Americanum
No full textDwarf mistletoes (DMs), genus Arceuthobium, are dioecious, flowering plants with a broad geographical distribution. More specifically, they are obligate aerial parasites that utilize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae for water, carbohydrates, and other nutrients, and are rooted to their host by an extensive endophytic system. On the host’s surface, DM are characterized by reproductive shoots that are drastically reduced in size and, on the female plant, develop bicoloured fruits (Hawksworth and Wiens 1996). Arceuthobium americanum, a North American species of DM, is parasitic on lodgepole pine trees throughout British Columbia (Geils et al. 2002). Like almost all DMs, the seeds of A. americanum are dispersed through an explosive mechanism in which the rupture of mature fruit expels the seed from the parent plant. The sticky coating of viscin cells allows these seeds to adhere to the new host trees on which they land. This dispersal phenomenon occurs in the early fall, while germination of the new DM does not ensue until the following spring when light, temperature and moisture are suitable (Hawksworth and Wiens 1996, Geils et al. 2002). Several years of endophytic growth occur before reproductive shoots become apparent, and at least one to two more years of growth occur before flowering takes place. Following pollination via wind or insects, another year elapses before the fruit mature and explode in the early fall (Geils et al. 2002). Although their prolonged lifecycle does not allow for rapid forest infestations, DM’s dependence on its host detrimentally affects forest productivity. Infections decrease the quality of host wood, weaken the immunity of the trees against other diseases, and ultimately shorten the lifespan of the trees (deBruyn et al. 2015). Furthermore, the branches of the trees infected by the DM become dry and brittle, which poses a major forest fire hazard. Forestry industries suffer extensive losses due to the decreased wood quality resulting from DM infections (Geils et al. 2002). Increasing our understanding of how the DM disperse could give foresters insights into controlling these independently dispersing parasites. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are any weather variables, such as temperature and humidity, associated with the seed dispersal mechanisms of lodgepole pine DM, and comprised three main objectives. The first objective was to determine the weather pattern of the field site by recording environmental variables using a weather station. The second objective involved tracking the pattern of fruit loss over a chosen set of sample DMs, determined by analysis of daily photographs of 11 samples and time lapse footage of one sample, from which light-intensity information was also obtained. Lastly, the data resulting from the first two objectives were combined to accomplish the last objective; namely, to determine if there are significant relationships between fluctuations and trends in the weather variables, and the occurrence of fruit explosions throughout the dispersal period.Not peer reviewedSupervisors Dr. Cynthia Ross Friedman & Dr. Mark Paetka
Quantitative and qualitative comparison of three wet aggregate stability methods using a long-term tillage system and crop rotation experiment
No full textAutomated wet sieving (AWS) is preferred for this clay loam soil due to better sensitivity and savings (time, disposables) despite a larger capital investment. Rotations with greater frequency of winter wheat and no-till compared with conventional plow system had greater wet aggregate stability (WAS) values indicating better surface soil quality.The presentation of the authors' names and (or) special characters in the title of the pdf file of the accepted manuscript may differ slightly from what is displayed on the item page. The information in the pdf file of the accepted manuscript reflects the original submission by the author
A Field Investigation of the Environmental factors Associated with Explosive Seed Dispersal in the Dwarf Mistletoe Arceuthobium Americanum
No full textDwarf mistletoes (DMs), genus Arceuthobium, are dioecious, flowering plants with a broad geographical distribution. More specifically, they are obligate aerial parasites that utilize members of Pinaceae and Cupressaceae for water, carbohydrates, and other nutrients, and are rooted to their host by an extensive endophytic system. On the host’s surface, DM are characterized by reproductive shoots that are drastically reduced in size and, on the female plant, develop bicoloured fruits (Hawksworth and Wiens 1996). Arceuthobium americanum, a North American species of DM, is parasitic on lodgepole pine trees throughout British Columbia (Geils et al. 2002). Like almost all DMs, the seeds of A. americanum are dispersed through an explosive mechanism in which the rupture of mature fruit expels the seed from the parent plant. The sticky coating of viscin cells allows these seeds to adhere to the new host
trees on which they land. This dispersal phenomenon occurs in the early fall, while germination of the new DM does not ensue until the following spring when light, temperature and moisture are suitable (Hawksworth and Wiens 1996, Geils et al. 2002). Several years of endophytic growth occur before reproductive shoots become apparent, and at least one to two more years of growth occur before flowering takes place. Following pollination via wind or insects, another year elapses before the fruit mature and explode in the early fall (Geils et al. 2002). Although their prolonged lifecycle does not allow for rapid forest infestations, DM’s dependence on its host detrimentally affects forest productivity. Infections decrease the quality of host wood, weaken the immunity of the trees against other diseases, and ultimately shorten the lifespan of the trees (deBruyn et al. 2015). Furthermore, the branches of the
trees infected by the DM become dry and brittle, which poses a major forest fire hazard. Forestry industries suffer extensive losses due to the decreased wood quality resulting from DM infections (Geils et al. 2002). Increasing our understanding of how the DM disperse could give foresters insights into controlling these independently dispersing parasites. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there are any weather variables, such as temperature and humidity, associated with the seed dispersal mechanisms of lodgepole pine DM, and comprised three main objectives. The first objective was to determine the weather pattern of the field site by recording environmental variables using a weather station. The second objective involved tracking the pattern of fruit loss over a chosen set of sample DMs, determined by analysis of daily photographs of 11 samples and time lapse footage of one sample, from which light-intensity information was also obtained. Lastly, the data resulting from the first two objectives were combined to accomplish the last objective; namely, to determine if there are significant relationships between fluctuations and trends in the weather variables, and the occurrence of fruit explosions throughout the dispersal period.Not peer reviewedSupervisors Dr. Cynthia Ross Friedman & Dr. Mark Paetka
The Dual Feminisation of HIV/AIDS
No full textThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Globalizations on 2011, available online: http://wwww.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14747731.2010.49302
