one of the recent inquiries in the field of hadith studies is the investigation of transferred traditions and their causes and impacts on shi‘i hadith circles. by exploring some traditions in the hadith collection of al-shaykh al-saduq and comparing the textual similarities and also the chain of transmitters, this research attempts to show that traditions of jewish origin in the shi‘i hadith ci...

bacterial wet-wood or bacterial slime is a common disease that affects the central core of many shade and forest trees like ash, fir, maple, oak, sycamore and elm (scortichini et al., 1991). symptoms of this disorder include a yellow-brown discoloration of the wood, generally confined to the central core of the tree. this affected wood is wetter than surrounding wood and is under high internal ...

diameter is such a notable characteristic in forest inventory that it is important to have a suitablemethod of its measurement, especially in coppice trees. this seems more important in zagros foreststhat most of them are covered with coppice trees. so this research was aimed to find an efficientmethod in studying the diameter at root collar (drc) of persian oak coppice trees as the mostimporta...

Debates about human prehistory often center on the role that population expansions play in shaping biological and cultural diversity. Hypotheses on the origin of the Austronesian settlers of the Pacific are divided between a recent "pulse-pause" expansion from Taiwan and an older "slow-boat" diffusion from Wallacea. We used lexical data and Bayesian phylogenetic methods to construct a phylogeny...

the aim of study was to evaluate qualitative and quantitative characteristics of old trees in pattom and namkhaneh districts in the nowshahr, northern iran. the trees quantitative characteristics of dbh, total height, slenderness coefficient, trunk height, crown length, buttress height, and canopy cover area and qualitative characteristics of crown and trunk, i.e., health, vitality, and concurr...

Introduction 3TRV \0 A method was developed to manipulate available soil water on large trees by intercepting thrufall with gutters placed under tree canopies and irrigating the intercepted thrufall onto other trees. With this design, trees were exposed for 2 years to either 25 percent less thrufall, normal thrufall, or 25 percent additional thrufall. Undercanopy construction in these plots mod...