The aim of this study was to observe the radial shrinkage of Norway spruce [Picea abies (L. Karst.)] trunkwood specimens with different hydraulic vulnerability to cavitation from the fully saturated state until the overall shrinkage reaches a stable value, and to relate wood shrinkage and recovery from shrinkage to cavitations of the water column inside the tracheids. Radial shrinkage processes...

This article represents a symposium of the 2004 ISBRA Congress held in Mannheim. The presentations were: Review of the neuropathological and neurochemical changes seen in alcohol-related ‘brain shrinkage’ by Clive Harper; In Vivo Detection of Macrostructural and Microstructural Markers of Brain Integrity in Human Alcoholism and a Rodent Model of Alcoholism by Adolf Pfefferbaum, Elfar Adalsteins...

YU, H. Q., JIANG, Z. H., HSE, C. Y. & SHUPE, T. F. 2008. Selected physical and mechanical properties of moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens). Selected physical and mechanical properties of 4–6 year old moso bamboo (Phyllostachys pubescens) grown in Zhejiang, China were investigated at different vertical and horizontal positions. Two way analysis of variance and Tukey’s mean comparison tests in...

background: iran, a low- to middle-income country, has experienced considerable socioeconomic changes in 20 th century, which their impacts on the adult heights has not been assessed deeply by now. this article aims to quantify the temporal varia­tions of height (with respect to shrinkage of height due to aging) and its deterministic factors in iranian population born be­tween 1940 and 1984. me...

The remarkable increase in chondrocyte volume is a major determinant in the longitudinal growth of mammalian bones. To permit a detailed morphological study of hypertrophic chondrocytes using standard histological techniques, the preservation of normal chondrocyte morphology is essential. We noticed that during fixation of growth plates with conventional fixative solutions, there was a marked m...

Lesions in the hippocampus (HC), the entorhinal cortex (EC), and the prefrontal cortex (PFC) are associated with impairment of episodic memory; reduced HC volume is linked to memory declines in dementia; and decline in EC volume predicts progression from mild cognitive impairment to dementia. However, in healthy adults, the relationship between memory and regional volumes is unclear, and no dat...

This study quantified the physical and mechanical properties of sycamore maple (Acer pseudoplatanus L.) as a basis for assessing wood quality. The oven-dry density, density at 12% MC, green basic longitudinal, radial, tangential volumetric shrinkages were tested bending strength, modulus elasticity bending, compression strength parallel to grain in radial direction well Brinell hardness on cros...

Uniaxial tensile and relaxation tests were carried out on annulus fibrosus samples carved out in the circumferential direction. Images were shot perpendicularly to the loading direction. Digital image correlation techniques accurately measured the evolution of full displacement fields in both transverse directions: plane of fibres and plane of lamellae. In the fibre plane, strains were governed...