The effect of climate on tree growth has received increased interest in the context change. However, most studies have been limited geographically and with respect to species. Here, sixteen species western North America were used investigate response trees Forest inventory data from 36,944 stands established between 1600 1968 throughout summarized. height (top at a breast-height age 50 years) h...

A Reply Card Processing (RCP) Service was developed at CEDAR to demonstrate as to how the United States Postal Service could deliver business and courtesy reply cards to clients electronically instead of physically. The electronic delivery of the more than one billion cards that the USPS processes in a year was to expedite the order fulfillment cycle for participating customers, resulting in co...

Five exploratory drying runs were carried out in a commercial size (23 m3), radio frequency/vacuum hardwood kiln. The species investigated were Pacific coast hemlock, Douglas-fir and western red cedar of different sizes and grades. Evaluation of the dried lumber showed that the three species can be dried in very short times and low amount of degrade irrespective of thickness with the exception ...

Dozens of Cedar Waxwings were found dead in Thomas County, Georgia, USA, in April 2009. Five of these were examined grossly and microscopically. Grossly, all the examined birds had pulmonary, mediastinal, and tracheal hemorrhages. Microscopically, several tissues and organs were diffusely congested and hemorrhagic. Congestion and hemorrhage were marked in the lungs. Intact and partly digested b...

Dendrochronology is the science that uses tree-rings dated to their exact year of formation to analyze temporal and spatial patterns of processes in the physical and cultural sciences. There currently is no published record for tree-ring studies using Eastern Red Cedar in the Upper Mississippi River Valley in Wisconsin. Therefore, this study develops a chronology from treerings using Eastern Re...

1 School of Fisheries, Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John’s, NL, Canada, 2 Department of Ocean Sciences, Memorial University of Newfoundland, Logy Bay, NL, Canada, 3 Department of Environmental Science and Policy, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA, 4 Department of Biological Sciences, Environmental Conservation Program, Cedar Crest College, A...

Variation in respiratory traits was quantified between two populations of the sailfin molly Poecilia latipinna (one from a periodically hypoxic salt marsh, Cedar Key, and one from a chronically normoxic river site, Santa Fe River). Two suites of characters were selected: traits that may show both short-term acclimation response and interdemic variation in acclimation response (metabolic rate, c...

A placebo-controlled, single-blind study was conducted to evaluate the effects of Lactobacillus acidophilus strain L-92 (L-92) on the symptoms of Japanese cedar-pollen allergy. This study was carried out during the 2002 and 2003 seasons of Japanese cedar pollination. Twenty-three in-house volunteers were asked to drink 100 ml of heat-treated milk fermented with L-92 containing 5 x 10(10) of the...

To obtain cellulases that are capable of degrading crystalline cellulose and cedar wood, metagenomic libraries were constructed from raw soil sample which was covered to pile of cedar wood sawdust or from its enrichment cultures. The efficiency of screening of metagenomic library was improved more than 3 times by repeating enrichment cultivation using crystalline cellulose as a carbon source, c...

Sediments are increasingly recognized as both carrier and potential source of contaminants in aquatic environments. This study investigated the characteristics and spatial distribution of total chlordane and its three most abundant compounds, including alpha-chlordane, gamma-chlordane, and trans-nonachlor, in sediments from the Cedar and Ortega rivers, Florida, USA, using geographic information...