Summary Wood identification for commercial applications is important and has a significant demand worldwide. Microscopic wood involves many processes such as softening, sectioning, data analysis. Softening of crucial method obtaining good sections microscopic analysis but softening high-density difficult. An alternate presented. Different concentrations alkali, NaOH, were tried, optimized diffe...

The cohesion-tension theory of water transport states that hydrogen bonds hold water molecules together and that they are pulled through the xylem under tension. This tension could cause transport failure in at least two ways: collapse of the conduit walls (implosion), or rupture of the water column through air-seeding. The objective of this research was to elucidate the functional significance...

Hawaiian dominant tree species Metrosideros polymorpha varieties glaberrima and polymorpha have glabrous and pubescent leaves, respectively. Sympatric populations at 2040 m elevation showed major differentiation beyond the pubescence itself. The varieties differed substantially in stomatal traits and in leaf composition, leaf water status, and instantaneous gas exchange rates, despite similarit...

This, the first volume, deals with General Surgery, contains over 750 pages, with 262 wood engravings, which are chiefly original. It is a handy volume, resembling Mr. Pentland's publications of Muir and Ritchie's Bacteriology and Cunningham's Anatomy. The work may be confidently recommended as a reliable guide to the student, in which theoretical points are mostly eliminated, and pathology tre...

Department of Physiology and Biophysics, and Medicine, Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, 675 Hoes Lane, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA. Department of Anatomy, Saitama Medical School, Saitama 350-0495, Japan.Department of Internal Medicine, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Japan. Department of Biological Chemistry, Kyoto University Graduate School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kyoto 606-8501, Japa...