Silanes for conservation of archaeological woods using modeled birch wood: antifungal, physical-chemical and TGA studies [PDF]
Scientific ReportsConservation of ancient wooden artifacts, in addition to consolidation advantage, prevent its deterioration over time. In this research, silane consolidants, including methyltrimethoxysilane (MTMS) and 3-mercaptopropyltrimethoxysilane (MPTMS) with 25 wt%
Akbar Mastouri +4 more
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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it”: The Concept of Economy (of Nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods [PDF]
Ostrava Journal of English Philology, 2022 The present article investigates the notion of economy (of nature) in Thoreau’s Walden or Life in the Woods (1854); it introduces the context of coining the concept of economy of nature, presents the challenges of exploring nature in Romantic ...
Tomáš Jajtner
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The floodplain woods of Tuscany: towards a phytosociological synthesis [PDF]
Plant Sociology, 2021 The recent Landscape Plan of Tuscany Region pays particular attention towards the floodplain woods, for their conservation concern, landscape, and historical importance.
Matilde Gennai +9 more
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Advances in historical wood consolidation and conservation materials
BioResources, 2023 Wood is an indispensable renewable material for national economic development. As a bio-organic material, wood is subject to deterioration due to climatic, biological, and chemical factors, which greatly limit the advantages of wood products and increase the difficulty of conserving historical wood.
Qi Wang, Xinhao Feng, Xinyou Liu
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Maderas: Ciencia y Tecnología, 2023 Identifying wood species of each wood element of a historical wooden building and investigating the changes in wood properties due to exposed outdoors during its service life are important prerequisites for the maintenance and renovation of historical ...
Elif Topaloglu
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Stories from the wood between research and education (20th-21st century)
Didattica della storia, 2023 Using the deconstruction of the myth of the wilderness of the Italian woods as starting point, the paper deals with themes and case-studies concerning the historical evolution in the last century ca.
Stefano Piastra
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Cork oak (Quercus suber) in the dynamism of a forest landscape shaped by fire on Monte Pisano (Tuscany N-W, Italy) [PDF]
Plant Sociology, 2023 The plant landscape of Monte Pisano is characterized by a predominant forest component, with Pinus pinaster and Castanea sativa, of clear anthropic imprint.
Andrea Bertacchi
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Revue LISA, 2020 In the late 1990s, the United States Census Bureau considered the idea of adding a “multiracial” category on the 2000 census forms to quantify the new multiracial population which was believed to have increased.
Nathalie Loison
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Fracture behaviour of historic and new oak wood [PDF]
Wood Science and Technology, 2018 Recent museum studies have indicated the appearance of cracks and dimensional changes on decorated oak panels in historical Dutch cabinets and panel paintings. A thorough analysis of these damage mechanisms is needed to obtain a comprehensive understanding of the causes of damage and to advise museums on future sustainable preservation strategies and ...
Luimes, R.A. +4 more
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A new Oligocene-Miocene tree from Panama and historical Anacardium migration patterns.
PLoS ONE, 2021 Migration of Boreotropical megathermal taxa during the Oligocene and Miocene played a key role in assembling diversity in tropical regions. Despite scattered fossil reports, the cashew genus Anacardium offers an excellent example of such migration.
Oris Rodríguez-Reyes +4 more
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