Search
Results: 79116
Wood
Martin P Ansell
Jan 01, 2012
The second part of a comprehensive review of the literature on wood published in the Journal of Materials Science since its inception in 1966 is presented. The topics reviewed include wood modification and surface treatment, the...
Wood
Martin P Ansell
Jan 01, 2012
The second part of a comprehensive review of the literature on wood published in the Journal of Materials Science since its inception in 1966 is presented. The topics reviewed include wood modification and surface treatment, the...
Wood-a 45th anniversary review of JMS papers. Part 1
Martin P Ansell
Dec 01, 2011
The first part of a comprehensive review of the literature on wood published in the Journal of Materials Science since its inception in 1966 is presented. Papers are reviewed by subject ranging from the determination of the...
Wood-a 45th anniversary review of JMS papers. Part 1
Martin P Ansell
Dec 01, 2011
The first part of a comprehensive review of the literature on wood published in the Journal of Materials Science since its inception in 1966 is presented. Papers are reviewed by subject ranging from the determination of the...
Interview with Frank Ardaiolo
Frank Ardaiolo
Jan 01, 0001
In his March 9, 2015 interview with Daniel Lee, Frank Ardaiolo shares his experience with and response to Hurricane Hugo. Ardaiolo recounts the destruction on Winthrop campus and how Hurricane Hugo helped establish new emergency...
Published by: Winthrop University
Frank L. Horsfall, Jr., 1952
The Rockefeller University
Jan 01, 0001
Frank L. Horsfall, Jr. Experiments on chemical alteration of virus infections.
Lecture delivered November 20, 1952
Posted with permission
Published by: Academic Press Inc., Publishers
Wood Formation Modeling - A Research Review and Future Perspectives.
Annemarie H Eckes-Shephard, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, David M Drew, Cyrille BK Rathgeber, Andrew D Friend
Apr 06, 2022
Wood formation has received considerable attention across various research fields as a key process to model. Historical and contemporary models of wood formation from various disciplines have encapsulated hypotheses such as the...
Frank Ardaiolo Honored with Dream Keeper Award
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Quick Facts
Frank Ardaiolo, vice president for student life at Winthrop University, received the 2018 Dream Keeper Award during the city of Rock Hill's Jan. 15 Martin Luther King Jr. Interfaith Prayer Breakfast. The award...
Published by: Winthrop University
Is the Dodd-Frank Act Destroying What is Left of U.S. Thrifts?
Scott Deacle
Jan 01, 0001
I examine data from 1992 to 2015 to assess the Dodd-Frank Act's impact on the performance of U.S. depository institutions, thrifts in particular. Ceteris paribus, the average FDIC-regulated institution experienced a decline in...
Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act thrifts savings and loans banks Office of Thrift Supervision OTS federal regulators depository institutions Banking and Finance Law Business Economics Finance and Financial Management
Published by: Ursinus College
Functional Relationships of Wood Anatomical Traits in Norway Spruce
Alma Piermattei, Georg von Arx, Camilla Avanzi, Patrick Fonti, Holger Gärtner, Andrea Piotti, Carlo Urbinati, Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin, Ulf Büntgen, Alan Crivellaro
Jun 09, 2020
The quantitative assessment of wood anatomical traits offers important insights into those factors that shape tree growth. While it is known that conduit diameter, cell wall thickness, and wood density vary substantially between...
Functional Relationships of Wood Anatomical Traits in Norway Spruce.
Alma Piermattei, Georg von Arx, Camilla Avanzi, Patrick Fonti, Holger Gärtner, Andrea Piotti, Carlo Urbinati, Giovanni Giuseppe Vendramin, Ulf Büntgen, Alan Crivellaro
Jun 04, 2020
The quantitative assessment of wood anatomical traits offers important insights into those factors that shape tree growth. While it is known that conduit diameter, cell wall thickness, and wood density vary substantially between...
Comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of wood pellet production with torrefaction
Torrefaction is a thermal pre-treatment process for upgrading raw biomass into a more energy dense fuel. Torrefied biomass is combined with a densification process to increase its bulk density similar to conventional...
life cycle assessment torrefaction wood pellets LCA Bioenergy torrefied pellets /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Wood waste as an alternative thermal insulation for buildings
Current insulation materials in the construction market, which are predominantly inorganic materials, have a high performance in relation to heat transfer, i.e. high R-values, but the environmental impacts in their production...
Hygrothermal Natural building materials Thermal insulation Wood waste /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2205 name=Civil and Structural Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2215 name=Building and Construction /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2210 name=Mechanical Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2208 name=Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Wood waste as an alternative thermal insulation for buildings
Current insulation materials in the construction market, which are predominantly inorganic materials, have a high performance in relation to heat transfer, i.e. high R-values, but the environmental impacts in their production...
Hygrothermal Natural building materials Thermal insulation Wood waste /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2205 name=Civil and Structural Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2215 name=Building and Construction /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2210 name=Mechanical Engineering /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2208 name=Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Wood structure explained by complex spatial source-sink interactions.
Wood is a remarkable material with great cultural, economic, and biogeochemical importance. However, our understanding of its formation is poor. Key properties that have not been explained include the anatomy of growth rings...
Hemocyanin facilitates lignocellulose digestion by wood-boring marine crustaceans.
Katrin Besser, Graham P Malyon, William S Eborall, Giovanni Paro da Cunha, Jefferson G Filgueiras, Adam Dowle, Lourdes Cruz Garcia, Samuel J Page, Ray Dupree, Marcelo Kern, Leonardo D Gomez, Yi Li, Luisa Elias, Federico Sabbadin, Shaza E Mohamad, Giovanna Pesante, Clare Steele-King, Eduardo Ribeiro de Azevedo, Igor Polikarpov, Paul Dupree, Simon M Cragg, Neil C Bruce, Simon J McQueen-Mason
Feb 11, 2019
Woody (lignocellulosic) plant biomass is an abundant renewable feedstock, rich in polysaccharides that are bound into an insoluble fiber composite with lignin. Marine crustacean woodborers of the genus Limnoria are among the few...
Frank Ardaiolo to Receive National Award from NASPA
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Frank P. Ardaiolo, vice president for student life at Winthrop, was selected as the recipient of the 2017 Scott Goodnight Award for Outstanding Performance as a Dean. Ardaiolo will be honored in March at the 2017 NASPA Annual...
Published by: Winthrop University
Psychology Professor Cheryl Fortner-Wood Elected New Chair of Faculty Conference
Winthrop University
Jan 01, 0001
Cheryl Fortner-Wood, associate professor of psychology, is the new chair of Faculty Conference. Fortner-Wood will begin her term, which expires in June 2009, in July.
Published by: Winthrop University
Producing wood at least cost to biodiversity
Matthew G Betts, Benjamin T Phalan, Christopher Wolf, Susan C Baker, Christian Messier, Klaus J Puettmann, Rhys Green, Scott H Harris, David P Edwards, David B Lindenmayer, Andrew Balmford
Mar 15, 2021
Forest loss and degradation are the greatest threats to biodiversity worldwide. Rising global wood demand threatens further damage to remaining native forests. Contrasting solutions across a continuum of options have been...
Into the Wood
Tamara L Follini
Jan 08, 2020
Abstract: This article performs a close reading of James’s 1874/1875 neglected Italian travelogue “Ravenna,” approaching it as a disguised parable of difficulties he confronted as an aspiring writer, in particular those...
An upcycled wood sponge adsorbent for drinking water purification by solar steam generation
The shortage of freshwater resources caused by heavy metal pollution is an acute global issue. Herein, a novel nanoplatform was fabricated by hydrothermal deposition of 3D-MoS2 nanospheres onto biocompatible wood...
In a world of big data, small effects can still matter
We make three points in response to Boyce, Daly, Hounkpatin, and Wood (2017). First, we clarify a misunderstanding of the goal of our analyses, which was to investigate the links between life satisfaction and spending patterns...
An upcycled wood sponge adsorbent for drinking water purification by solar steam generation
The shortage of freshwater resources caused by heavy metal pollution is an acute global issue. Herein, a novel nanoplatform was fabricated by hydrothermal deposition of 3D-MoS2 nanospheres onto biocompatible wood...
Comparative cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment of wood pellet production with torrefaction
Torrefaction is a thermal pre-treatment process for upgrading raw biomass into a more energy dense fuel. Torrefied biomass is combined with a densification process to increase its bulk density similar to conventional...
life cycle assessment torrefaction wood pellets LCA Bioenergy torrefied pellets /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action
Wood structure explained by complex spatial source-sink interactions
Abstract Wood is a remarkable material with great cultural, economic, and biogeochemical importance. However, our understanding of its formation is poor. Key properties that have not been...
|
|< |
< |
1 |