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Microbial attack of acetylated wood in field soil trials
No full textMicroscopic evaluation of microbial attack in the acetylated wood after a long term exposure to the field soil was the main concern of the current research. Stakes of wood were cut from beech, poplar and Scots pine wood and acetylated by using acetic anhydride to achieve different weight percent gains (WPGs). Afterwards, the stakes were exposed to the field soil for 350 weeks according to EN 252. Small specimens were cut from the stakes, sectioned and stained for microscopic studies. Small blocks were also prepared for scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Microscopic observations indicated that the soft rot was dominant rot fungi in the field soil and decayed the non-acetylated wood severely and attack also the moderately acetylated wood slowly. Bacteria were also in close association with the soft rot fungi to degrade the acetylated and the non-acetylated wood. In the moderately acetylated wood, white rot decay was at developing stage, while it was at initial stage at the highest WPGs. Microscopy revealed that the initial stage of the decay was begun at the highest WPGs and it was at developing stage of the decay in the moderately acetylated wood. The less development of the decay in the acetylated wood comparing the non-acetylated wood proved very good protection of the wood against the soil microorganisms due to the acetylation after 7 years period. Soft rot and white rot decays were observed in the non-acetylated and the acetylated wood at the same time. No brown rot decay was observed in those woods. Bacteria were seen in all wood types. The bacteria cooperated generally with the soft rot fungi to degrade the non-acetylated wood or limit themselves to pits at the higher degrees of the acetylation. (C) 2009 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved
Biologischer Angriff von acetyliertem Holz
No full textAcetylation is an environmental friendly method to modify wood properties and protect it against biological attack. Many researches have been done in this field. However, no concern was paid for mode of protection in acetylated wood. This research had been aimed to study mode of action in acetylated wood by investigating on weight and MOE loss, chemical alteration in cell wall due to microbial attack, IRspectroscopy, microcalorimetry, determination of fungal biomass by using ergosterol assay and FDA hydrolysis and enzyme assays. Beech and Scots pine wood samples were acetylated by using acetic anhydride at temperature 80-120°C for 180min. Acetylated wood samples were tested under soil bed test condition, field and basidiomycete trials. Results showed that the losses of weight and MOE decreased at increasing weight gains. Soil bed test revealed that the acetylation of beech wood at above 8% and pine wood at above 10% inhibits soil microorganisms in attacking wood and their activities reached to nil at higher weight gains. A test with the white rot fungus (T. versicolor) showed that the weight loss decreased at raising weight gains. Weight gains of above 10% inhibited fungal decay in beech wood and it reached to zero at higher weight gains. Microscopical studies of wood from soil bed samples, field trials and basidiomycete (white- and brown-rot) tests showed that fungi could colonize acetylated and non-acetylated wood. However, measurements of fungal biomass by using ergosterol assays in those woods and fluorescein diacetate in white rottests showed a rapid colonization of fungal hyphae at early stages of incubation and decreased amount of fungal biomass at raising weight gains.Results showed that fungal colonization is influenced by the acetylation. Biological activities were measured in wood by using microcalorimetry. The reduction of thermal powers and measured amounts of energy production in acetylated wood revealed that activities of microorganisms were influenced by the acetylation and their activities decreased at increased degree of the acetylation. Microscopy of field trial samples showed that the acetylation of wood was affected the growth of soil microorganisms and protected wood against soil microorganisms during a long period of exposure (350 weeks) to soil.Different types of decay in field samples showed successional activities of soft- and white-rot fungi and also bacteria. Soil bed test showed a synergism between soil fungi and bacteria in wood. It was revealed that bacteria followed hyphal traces in cells and associated with fungi in wood degradation. Chemical analyses of acetylated wood in soil bed samples showed a significant effect of the acetylation on removal of cell wall components. The analyses showed a reduction in removal of cell wall components at increased weight gains. Results revealed that removal of the cell wall components reduced considerably in beech wood at weight gains above 8% and in Scots pine samples at above 10%. Study on patterns and phenol ogy of white- and brown-rot decay on acetylated wood showed no difference of decay patterns between acetylated and non-acetylated wood, however decay patterns appear more later in acetylated wood
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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