BACKGROUND Miombo woodlands play an important role in the livelihood of people living in sub-equatorial African countries, contributing to satisfy basic human needs such as food, medicine, fuelwood and building materials. However, over-exploitation of plant resources and unsustainable harvest practices can potentially degrade forests. The aim of this study was to document the use of Miombo plan...

According to the characteristics of high bottom hole temperature and large difference between inner outer walls reservoir casing in process underground coal gasification (underground gasification), field stress model wellbore gas production wells is established based on thermo-mechanical coupling, distribution different steel grades under limit working conditions studied. The results show that:...

A corrosion inhibitor suitable for industrial production and field application was rapidly synthesized from benzene-1,2-diamine, benzaldehyde, methanol, hydrochloric acid, and FeCl3. The mechanism of corrosion and its inhibition was proposed. We investigated the effect of the main reactants on corrosion rate, and optimal synthetic composition (benzene-1,2-diamine 10 g, b...

The high-resolution solution structure of the inhibitor-free catalytic fragment of human fibroblast collagenase (MMP-1), a protein of 18.7 kDa, which is a member of the matrix metalloproteinase family, has been determined using three-dimensional heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy. A total of 30 structures were calculated by means of hybrid distance geometry-simulated annealing using a total of 3333...

New records for nematode species recovered from elasmobranch fishes in Brazil are established and new systematical arrangements proposed. Parascarophis sphyrnae Campana-Rouget, 1955 from the spiral valve of Sphyrna zygaena is referred for the first time in South America as a new host record. Procamallanus (S.) pereirai Annereaux, 1946, from the spiral valve of Raja castelnaui is reported parasi...