Assessing Food Waste Compost as a Substrate Amendment for Tomato and Watermelon Seedlings by Allyson N. Hamilton, Matthew B. Bertucci, Kristen E. Gibson, Mary C. Savin, D.E. Kirkpatrick, R.C. Woody-Pumford

“…Source material for the FWC included food scraps from a commercial partner and wood chips from a local tree service company. The FWC was prepared in a controlled environment and combined with wood chips to create experimental substrates. …”
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Breeding bird communities of the pine forests in the forest-steppe zone by A. Atemasov, T. Atemasova

“…In pine forest less than 25 years old dominate European Robin (45.1%) and Common Chiffchaff (25.3%); in pine forest 71-90 years old – Wood Warbler (28.3%) and Common Chaffinch (20.4%); in pine forest 91-110 years old – Common Chaffinch (16.4%), Wood Warbler (12.9%), Collared Flycatcher (12.0%), and European Robin (10.9%); in pine forest over 110 years old – Common Chaffinch (18.7%), European Robin (15.0%), Great Tit (12.8%) and Collared Flycatcher (11.9%); in patches of oak stands – Collared Flycatcher (20.1%), Great Tit (19.3%) and Common Chaffinch (14.3%); and in patches of birch stands – Wood Warbler (20.6%), Collared Flycatcher (16.7%), European Robin (14.9%) and Common Chaffinch (13.3%). …”
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An Unusual Prepatellar Bursa Swelling: Patellar Button Dissociation and Migration by Thomas Hester, Farid Moftah

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A Review of the Methods for Predicting the Effective In-Plane Shear Modulus of Cross-Laminated Timber (CLT) by Mehsam Tanzim Khan, Ying Hei Chui, Dongsheng Huang

“…Cross-laminated timber (CLT) is a type of engineered wood product that offers both high in-plane and out-of-plane load-bearing capacity. …”
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Occupational Exposures and Chronic Airflow Limitation by Helen Dimich-Ward, Susan M Kennedy, Moira Chan-Yeung

“…Findings from studies of organic dusts, such as exposures to wood, cotton, grain or other agricultural dusts, or to mixed dust exposures, were less consistent but tended to show positive dose-response associations. …”
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Adsorption of Manganese(II) Ions by EDTA-treated Activated Carbons by Ameena Y. Khan, David W. Mazyck

“…Manganese(II) ion removal increased from 0 to 6.5 mg/g for the lignite coal-based sorbent, from 3.5 to 14.7 mg/g for the wood-based sorbent and from 1.3 to 7.9 mg/g for the bituminous coal-based sorbent. …”
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Comment usait-on du vrai et du faux dans les appellations des articles de Paris ? Le cas des bijoux en jais et des peignes du Pays d’Olmes by Bruno Evans

“…Due to the scarcity of boxwood, manufacturers have also produced imitations by painting wood. Then, to move their products upmarket, they designated as Ireland and buffalo the white and black horns coming from Latin America while stamping many of their combs as “Paris”. …”
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Anisotropic mechanical properties and cushioning effectiveness of spruce subjected to different direction loading by Zexiong Zhang, Weizhou Zhong, Jiaxing Li, Jingrun Luo

“…The arrayed microstructure of wood produced during growth results in anisotropic mechanical behavior at the macroscopic level. …”
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Challenges in biomass valorization by olefin metathesis by Del Vecchio, Antonio, Mauduit, Marc

“…The aim of this article is to highlight and discuss two relevant metathesis processes dedicated to biomass valorization (on the one hand, the transformation of feedstocks resulting from Fischer–Tropsch cuts of wood wastes, and on the other hand, the transformation of unrefined unsaturated fatty esters from sunflower oils) which involve highly efficient and selective ruthenium-based catalysts. …”
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Making a lot with little – Modular architecture, starting with Walter Segal by Niccolò Di Virgilio

“…After his early experiments in Ascona (Switzerland), Segal developed a system of construction in wood that was based on using the modular components of materials in the forms that were available on the market. …”
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Household Solid Fuel Use and Associated Factors in Somaliland: A Multilevel Analysis of Data From 2020 Somaliland Demographic and Health Survey by Mustafe Abdillahi Ali, Abdirizak Hassan Abokor, Omer Adam Farih, Hodo Abdikarim, Abdirashid M Yousuf, Abdisalam Hassan Muse

“…Our analysis reveals that a staggering 97.2% of households rely on solid fuels like wood and charcoal for cooking, with only 2.8% utilizing clean energy sources. …”
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Experimental Study on the Flexural Performance of Parallel Strand Bamboo Beams by Aiping Zhou, Yuling Bian

“…Parallel Strand Bamboo (PSB) is a new biocomposite made of bamboo strips which has superiority performances than wood products. It has attracted considerable interests as a sustainable alternative for more traditional building materials. …”
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On Maximal Subsemigroups of Partial Baer-Levi Semigroups by Boorapa Singha, Jintana Sanwong

“…Suppose that X is an infinite set with |X|≥q≥ℵ0 and I(X) is the symmetric inverse semigroup defined on X. In 1984, Levi and Wood determined a class of maximal subsemigroups MA (using certain subsets A of X) of the Baer-Levi semigroup BL(q)={α∈I(X): dom α=X and |X∖Xα|=q}. …”
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My Pine Is Under Attack—What Should I Do? by Jiri Hulcr

“… This guide is intended to help tree owners and Extension personnel in Florida and the adjacent southeastern region make decisions about backyard pine trees that display signs of attack by wood borers. The 3-page pictorial guide will help determine whether beetles have attacked a pine tree, how far along the attack has progressed, and what to do about it. …”
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Topographie, urbanisme et gestion des réseaux d’eau à Autun/Augustodunum (Saône-et-Loire) : une nouvelle image de la capitale de cité by Laetitia Borau

“…This work highlights, for the first time in its context, the town’s water supply system, unknown until now, which consists in wood or lead pipes, the importance of urban amenities, especially private fountains, and the density of the sewer system which takes nearly half of the corpus. …”
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Measurement of Adhesion of In Situ Electrospun Nanofibers on Different Substrates by a Direct Pulling Method by Bin Zhang, Xu Yan, Yuan Xu, Huai-Song Zhao, Miao Yu, Yun-Ze Long

“…In addition, the adhesion of the in situ electrospun web on different substrates (e.g., aluminium foil, wood pulp paper, and silicon paper) was also studied by this method. …”
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Les sociétés rurales européennes ont-elles accepté les politiques publiques paysagères ? by Pierre Donadieu

“…They face the risk to be divided in three categories of relations with the farming and wooded spaces : encouraging cultivation and gardening of local services for practices of residential, leisure and tourism ; encouraging the maintaining of agro-industries in intensive farming regions ; or in the two precedent cases, by involving values of sustainable development, implementing land project in the perspective of a localized and sustainable auto-development. …”
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Les consoles de l’Éternité, à l’ombre des ordinateurs : Les Cordelettes de Browser de Tristan Garcia by Arnaud Despax

“…Philosopher and novelist, Tristan Garcia provides in Les Cordelettes de Browser (2012) the strangely archaic image of unnamed computers : the characters of « Eternity » use smalls wood consoles to arrange reality, in order to maintain their whole life as eternal and be constantly comfortable. …”
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My Pine Is Under Attack—What Should I Do? by Jiri Hulcr

“… This guide is intended to help tree owners and Extension personnel in Florida and the adjacent southeastern region make decisions about backyard pine trees that display signs of attack by wood borers. The 3-page pictorial guide will help determine whether beetles have attacked a pine tree, how far along the attack has progressed, and what to do about it. …”
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What Do Closed Mountain Roads Tell Us About Territories? A Critical Analysis of Abandonment, Re-Appropriation and Valorisation in the Vercors (19th-21st Century) by Emma-Sophie Mouret

“…Most of these roads were built to transport wood but rapidly became tourist routes. After the Second World War, the roads started being used more and more as daily transit increased. …”
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