for adaptation to the local mutualist in Medicago lupulina 2 Tia L. Harrison*, Corlett W. Wood*, Isabela L. Borges, and John R. Stinchcombe 3 4 1 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario 5 M5S3B2, Canada 6 2 Centre for Genome Evolution and Function, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, 7 M5S3B2, Canada 8 * These authors contributed equally to t...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a science of intelligence system design. Existing definitions of intelligence don’t answer some important questions of engineering procedures. What kinds of intellectual tasks do we have? Who is more intelligent or smarter: a scientist or a wood-maker (human or machine), a metal-maker or a wood-maker? How to design a system with reasoning as the most powerful int...

The wood anatomy of ring-porous trees presents difficulties of description and measurement. Information regarding the distribution of vessel diameters within the yearly growth increment may be of use of interpreting wood anatomy and function. Two distributional patterns can be recognized in the trunk xylem of the five ring-porous species investigated. The following terms are proposed: graduated...

The production of new generation of wood preservatives (without addition of a co-biocide) in combination with an exchange of wood poles on identical sites with high fungal inoculum, has resulted in an increase of premature failures of wood utility poles in the last decades. Wood destroying basidiomycetes inhabiting sites where poles have been installed, have developed resistance against wood pr...

We describe the design and initial implementation of a system for constructing a haptic model of a mathematical function for exploration using a PHANToM. The model is that of a block of balsa wood with the trace of the function carved into its surface.

Chain flail delimber-debarkers have gained a degree of acceptance in the Southern USA, especially for processing thinnings from pine plantations. TIzis Technical Release compares the quality of chips produced by inwoods chippers teamed with chain flail delimber-debarkers, with chips produced in conventional large-scale woodyards, to g&e a guideline as to what may occur with similar processing o...

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