wood mice of the genus apodemus are widespread in temperate areas of the palaearctic region. four species a. hyrcanicus, a. flavicollis, a. witherbyi, a. avicennicus and a. uralensis were reported for iran. the shape variation among three species of the genus apodemus (a. witherbyi, a. hyrcanicus, a. uralensis) and a subfossil specimens from kordestan (kani mikaiil cave) dated to 6000-4800 cal....

bending and compression strength of paulownia fortunie wood grown in educational and research forest located at shastkalate, gorgan were studied. paulownia trees were selected among five years old plantation. sampling spot was conducted following standard procedure. trees were cut into logs, which were then cut into 6 cm thickness wood blocks based on geographic directions. wood blocks were div...

the major objectives of this study were to find out the mechanism behind the sapstaining fungal hyphae penetration into wood elements using electron microscope and to evaluate the exact role of phenolic compounds existing in wood vinegar towards the sapstaining fungal growth inhibition. to formulate the new environmental friendly wood preservative, we neutralized (to ph 7) wood vinegar with nao...

in this research, effect of using hornbeam and beech branch woods in admixture with birch stem wood on their cmp pulp properties. using percentage of branch woods, with 20% constant content for birch stem wood, were 0, 16, 40, 56 and 80 in final mixture of hardwoods. the results indicated that cooking time, to reach 85% yield and under same cooking condition, and also refining quantity, to reac...

Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) was applied to paraffin-embedded wood sections to study the histopathology of pine seedlings inoculated with the pinewood nematode (PWN), Bursaphelenchus xylophilus. The sections, which had been previously prepared and observed by light microscopy (LM) on glass slides, were originally obtained from experiments in which pine seedlings had been inoculated with P...

Xylophone sounds produced by striking wooden bars with a mallet are strongly influenced by the mechanical properties of the wood species chosen by the xylophone maker. In this paper, we address the relationship between the sound quality based on the timbre attribute of impacted wooden bars and the physical parameters characterizing wood species. For this, a methodology is proposed that associat...

Most research on the multimodal perception of material properties has investigated the perception of material properties of two modalities such as vision-touch, vision-audition, audition-touch, and vision-action. Here, we investigated whether the same affective classifications of materials can be found in three different modalities of vision, audition, and touch, using wood as the target object...

Due to its very good mechanical properties at low density, wood is a high potential and sustainable raw material for composite applications. Wood as small particles are commonly processed with polymers Wood-Polymer-Composites (WPC). Thereby, the inherent strength of not used full potential. In order transfer solid shaping composite, wool were studied. well-known in wood-processing industry main...

Wood density is a crucial variable in carbon accounting programs of both secondary and old-growth tropical forests. It also is the best single descriptor of wood: it correlates with numerous morphological, mechanical, physiological, and ecological properties. To explore the extent to which wood density could be estimated for rare or poorly censused taxa, and possible sources of variation in thi...