This study was carried out to determine the effect of thinning on density, extractives and lignin content of Pinus nigra Amold tree. Wood density was measured with computed tomography and 540+/-20 kg m(-3) were determined on control samples. Density of samples from thinning applied plot was 520+/-20 kg m(-3). The results showed that thinning slightly changes the density of wood and this change ...

IMPORTANCE Regional left ventricular (LV) wall thinning is believed to represent chronic transmural myocardial infarction and scar tissue. However, recent case reports using delayed-enhancement cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging raise the possibility that thinning may occur with little or no scarring. OBJECTIVE To evaluate patients with regional myocardial wall thinning and to de...

It is a challenging topic to perform pattern reconstruction from a unit-width skeleton, which is obtained by a parallel thinning algorithm. The bias skeleton yielded by a fully-parallel thinning algorithm, which usually results from the so-called hidden deletable points, will result in the difficulty of pattern reconstruction. In order to make a fully-parallel thinning algorithm pattern reconst...

Intensively managed loblolly pine (Pinus taeda L.) plantations often develop nutrient deficiencies near mid-rotation. Common silvicultural treatments for improving stand nutrition at this stage include thinning, fertilization, and vegetation control. It is important to better understand the influence of timing fertilization and vegetation control in relation to thinning as part of improving the...

The advent of optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging allows identification of the structural contribution of the lamina cribrosa (LC) to glaucoma progression. This study aimed to determine the role of various LC features, such as the LC depth (LCD), LC thickness (LCT), and focal LC defects, on the future rate of progressive retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thinning in patients with glaucoma...

A new parallel thinning algorithm with two subcycles is proposed and compared with other parallel thinning algorithms in terms of 8-connectedness degree, erosion, stability under pattern rotation, and boundary noise sensitivity. Computational issues are also reported based on the implementation of the thinning algorithm on the SIMD machines CM-200 and MasPar MPP-12000.

Temperate alpine glacier survival is dependent on the consistent presence of an accumulation zone. Frequent low accumulation area ratio values, below 30%, indicate the lack of a consistent accumulation zone, which leads to substantial thinning of the glacier in the accumulation zone. This thinning is often evident from substantial marginal recession, emergence of new rock outcrops and surface e...

The Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) is an emblematic, threatened raptor associated with dense, late-successional forests in the Pacific Northwest, USA. Concerns over high-severity fire and reduced timber harvesting have led to programs to commercially thin forests, and this may occur within habitat designated as “critical” for spotted owls. However, thinning is only allowed un...

BACKGROUND People in midlife with established psychosis or bipolar disorder exhibit patterns of cortical thinning across several brain regions. It is unclear whether these patterns are indicative of a continuously active pathological process, residual effects of an earlier illness phase or pre-illness onset developmental risk factors. Here, we investigated whether cortical thinning is evident i...