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Perceptions of Forest Owners and the General Public on the Role of Forests in Slovakia
Authors: Dobsinska Zuzana , Sarvasova Zuzana 
Published: March 2016

AbstractDuring the past decades, the awareness of environmental issues in forest management is increasing due to changes in environmental education. The perceptions of forests, sustainable management, and ecosystem services were studied through two surveys. The general public and forest owners were the two target groups. The questionnaires had similar questions, though two different methodological approaches were used - the CATI system, for general public opinion survey, and semi-structured questionnaires for forest owners. The second survey contained more detailed questions regarding forest properties. Combined answers from 1503 respondents from the general public and 150 forest owners were evaluated on the following topics: sustainable forestry, major ecosystem services, and perceptions of forests. The majority of the Slovakian public regards ecological values as the most important element, whereas forest owners prefer the economic purposes for the maintenance and enhancement of forests. Forest owners tend to visit their forests once per week, whereas the general public tend to visit only once per month. The main cause for this non-attendance in the general public was a lack of recreational time, followed by a disinterest in forests. The main purpose for visiting forests for both groups was recreation. Overall, it can be concluded that people are mostly satisfied with forest management in Slovakia. Forest owners are satisfied with their forest properties, and plan to keep them for their children. In the future, more attention should be focused on investigating the younger generation’s perception of forests.
Natural Resource Enterprises: Payments to Landowners for Ecosystem Services from Forests and their Management in the United States of America (U.S.)
Authors: Jones Walter Daryl 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Mississippi landowners were found to diversify incomes from forests through fee-access outdoor recreation, including hunting, angling, wildlife watching, and other nature-based activities (Jones et al. 2005). The Natural Resource Enterprises (NRE) Program at Mississippi State University educates private landowners, resource agencies, and local communities about recreational enterprises, conservation, and integration of these activities with sustainable forestry through educational workshops. Since 2005, the NRE Program has organized and conducted over 75 landowner workshops in 11 U.S. states and Sweden and trained in excess of 4,000 participants in outdoor recreational business development and associated conservation practices. Survey results revealed that our programming has initiated over 1,000 new outdoor recreational businesses on an estimated 1.2 million hectares of forest and agricultural lands, generating over $14 million in incomes while fostering natural resource conservation on family farms in the U.S. NRE development on rural lands benefits landowners and local communities through promoting payments for ecosystem services supported by sustainable forests.
Development and Possibilities for Close-to-Nature Forest Resource Management in Hungary
Authors: Lett Béla , Gál János , Stark Magdolna , Frank Norbert 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Legal regulations of the activities of forest managers were fundamentally changed by the legislature of the past decade, and little is known about the actual change in forest management practices. Based on the data collected by the State Forest Service, this study investigates the changes of the past 15 years and presents the influencing factors, primarily the species and sectorial characteristics and differences
In the study both the area of final cuts and regenerations are presented by modes, sectors and species. The main factors influencing forest resource management are site (which can be modified by climate change) and the corresponding species or stand type. Based on these possibilities, close-tonature forest management can be evaluated on a more realistic basis. The sum and average values for the whole country are too general; the country consists of sectors with different forest resource management properties.
Experimental study on the detection of rabbit intracranial hemorrhage using four coil structures based on magnetic induction phase shift
Authors: Yan Qingguang , Jin Gui , Qin Mingxin , Zhao Jun , Wang Jian , Sun Jian 
Published: March 2016

AbstractIntracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is the bleeding induced by parenchyma vascular rupture. In this paper, four novel coils (a contralateral hemisphere cancellation coil, a coaxial coil, a double-end exciting coil, and a Helmholtz coil) were developed to detect the volume change of ICH with the magnetic induction phase shift (MIPS) technique. Both numerical studies on an ICH model and animal experiments on rabbits’ hemorrhage model were performed with four coils. Twenty rabbits were measured for each coil. The animal results were consistent with the simulation and the theoretical analysis for each coil. The MIPS first declined and then increased with increasing injection volume, indicating the existence of a turning point. The MRI images showed that the average CSF decreased in the heads of five rabbits after blood injection was approximately equal to the average injection volume corresponding to the turning point of all animals. Thus, we concluded that when the MIPS turning point occurs, the CSF is already exhausted and the compensatory stage has ended. The results show that the MIPS technique has the potential to detect ICH growth and MIPS changes with increasing blood in a regular way. The turning point is expected to provide an early warning for ICH growth.
Preparation and application of modified carboxymethyl cellulose Si/polyacrylate protective coating material for paper relics
Authors: Chen Qian , Wen Wen-Ya , Qiu Feng-Xian , Xu Ji-Cheng , Yu Han-Qiang , Chen Ming-Liang , Yang Dong-Ya 
Published: March 2016

AbstractThere are large numbers of paper cultural relics in China, the country where paper making was invented. However, the paper relics have not been adequately protected so they are at risk of ageing, damage and disappearance. In order to better protect the paper relics, modified carboxymethyl cellulose/Si/polyacrylate protective materials were prepared with acrylicresin and modified carboxymethyl cellulose which has a good affinity with the paper and modified silica, improving the mechanical strength and ability to withstand weathering. The modified CMC/Si/polyacrylate protective material was analysed using infrared spectroscopy, transmission electron microscopy, differential scanning calorimetry and other performance-testing devices. The surface morphology of the paper samples was analysed using scanning electron microscopy. The protective material so prepared was evaluated by subjection to accelerated ageing (dry heat treatment). The results showed the protective material films to have good hydrophobicity, acid/alkali resistance and mechanical strength. When the content of SiO
Écrire la guerre civile algérienne : la mise en place d’un nouveau pacte de lecture dans Le Serment des barbares de Boualem Sansal
Authors: Romain Lisa 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
During the Black Decade, Algerian French speaking writers were confronted with several issues in the way their novels were received. The meaning of these novels has often been misrepresented. Boualem Sansal, whose first novel was published in 1999, develops original generic and enunciative strategies to bypass the obstacles that he noticed during these troubled years. He lays the foundations for a new deal with his readers, based on ethics and responsibility. The author aims to show that the denunciation of violence and its root causes can only make a significant impact if the reader is involved as an active partner.
Phosphates Adsorption from Water by Recycled Concrete / Adsorpce Fosforečnanů Z Vody Recyklovaným Betonem
Authors: Buriánek Pavel , Skalický Michal , Grünwald Alexander 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
It was only very recently that recycled concrete has also started to be used in water management primarily as a sorbent or reagent. Important factors influencing its use include mainly its origin, chemical, physical and mechanical characteristics. Adsorption kinetics was measured experimentally (Freundlich and Langmuir isotherm); and efficiency, values of adsorption capacity and changes of water chemical reactions due to added recycled concrete were found. Phosphates were removed either from standard solutions or from surface water.
Counterstatement to Article Entitled "A Framework for Evaluation of Marine Spatial Data Geoportals Using Case Studies"
Authors: Seip Christian 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
In December 2014 in volume 60 issue 4 a paper was published entitled “A Framework for Evaluation of Marine Spatial Data Geoportals Using Case Studies” by Marina Tavra, Vlado Cetl and Tea Duplancic Leder which is suspected to constitute academic misconduct. This comment reasons that the core of the paper was taken from another source and thus does not offer new and original scientific work and therefore does not add knowledge to the body of science. Furthermore it argues that apart from the plagiarism the paper shows major weaknesses and thus should have not been published even it was not plagiarized.
Pyrolysis Processing of Waste Peanuts Crisps
Authors: Grycová Barbora , Koutník Ivan , Pryszcz Adrian , Chamrádová Kateřina 
Published: March 2016

AbstractWastes are the most frequent "by-product" of human society. The Czech Republic still has a considerable room for energy reduction and material intensiveness of production in connection with the application of scientific and technical expertise in the context of innovation cycles. Pyrolysis waste treatment is a promising alternative to the production of renewable hydrogen as a clean fuel. It can also reduce the environmental burden and the amount of waste in the environment at the same time.This paper presents the laboratory pyrolysis experiments of peanuts crisps waste to the final temperature of 800 °C. After the pyrolysis process of the selected waste a mass balance of the resulting products, off-line analysis of the pyrolysis gas and evaluation of solid residue in terms of adsorption properties and energy production and liquid products were carried out. The highest concentration of measured hydrogen (66 vol. %) was analysed during the 4th gas sampling at the temperature varying from 750 to 800 °C.
Preference for microhabitat by Monogenea on the gills of the south american catfishRhamdia quelenat different stocking densities under laboratory conditions
Authors: Debortoli J. A. , Lacerda A. C. F. , Lisboa T. R. , Martins M. L. 
Published: March 2016

SummaryThis study aimed to verify preferences for microhabitat by the monogeneans on the gills of the south american catfish,Rhamdia quelen(Quoy & Gaimard, 1824), at different stocking densities under controlled laboratory conditions. Three stocking densities were used: 14, 28 and 42 fish per tank (50 L) and the fish were sampled initially, at day 5 and 10 of the experiment.Aphanoblastella mastigatus(Suriano, 1986) was noted as the most abundant species at all stocking densities, except for the initial collection day. The gill arches I and II were the most parasitized, showing the highest mean abundance in the dorsal region, at the highest density. The pattern of microhabitat preference ofA. mastigatusfor outer regions of the gills of the host was independent of the stocking density and collection day. Higher prevalence and abundance ofScleroductussp. at the initial collection reflected the parasitic infection of the fish at the farm from where the fish were taken. The abundance ofScleroductussp. decreased along the experiment, and no preference for gill arches was recorded for the species, probably due to the low abundance of this parasite on the gills.
Nematodes from Achatina fulica Bowdich, 1822 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in Argentina
Authors: Valente R. , Diaz J. I. , Lorenti E. , Salomón O. D. , Navone G. T. 
Published: March 2016

Summary
The aim of this study is to describe the nematode cysts and larvae found in Achatina fulica, the giant African snail, in the northeast of Argentina. A total of 373 snails were collected from the cities of Puerto Iguazú and Corrientes. Cysts (N= 2958) containing nematodes identified as L3 Strongyluris sp. were found in the mantle cavity of 87 snails from Puerto Iguazú City (Prevalence 23 %; Mean Intensity= 34; Mean Abundance= 8). The shell size correlated with prevalence, mean intensity and mean abundance (p < 0.05) indicating that there is an exposure-infection constant rather than an accidental one. In other hand, the absence of infection in the smallest shell size suggests a threshold of size to be infected. Taking into account that there exist records of A. fulica infected by nematodes of medical and veterinary importance such as Angiostrongylus and Aelurostrongylus in some Brazilian states near Puerto Iguazú, we emphasize the need for snail surveillance.
Mechanical properties and decay resistance of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sapwood modified by vinyl acetate-epoxidized linseed oil copolymer
Authors: Cai Shengzhen , Jebrane Mohamed , Terziev Nasko , Daniel Geoffrey 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Equilibrium moisture content (EMC), mechanical properties, and durability of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) sapwood modified by vinyl acetate epoxidized linseed oil (WVA-ELO) have been studied. Microscopic observations revealed that the impregnated copolymer is mainly in cell walls, rays, resin canals, and a small fraction in the cell lumens. Under the same climate conditioning, the EMC of the treated wood was in the range of 6.0%–8.2%, which was significantly lower than that of untreated wood (about 12%). Mechanical tests performed on paired samples (control and treated) showed a slight reduction on the mechanical properties of WVA-ELO. The decay resistance against basidiomycete fungi of WVA-ELO was significantly improved as demonstrated by laboratory tests. It was found that 8% weight percentage gain (WPG) was sufficient to ensure decay resistance against the test fungi with <5% mass loss (ML), which led to durability class (DC) of 2.
On the Use of Conventional Dough Extension Tests in Characterising Flours for Dough Sheetability. II. Simulations
Authors: Patel Milan J. , Chakrabarti-Bell Sumana 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
Dough extension tests are used in industry to rate flours for dough processability. The results impact flour selection for product use. Previously, it was shown that dough extension data correlated poorly with dough sheetability irrespective of whether doughs were tested fresh or rested. It was noted that sample shapes varied between specimens of flours. To understand how sample shape affects extensigraph tests, a finite element (FE) simulation-based approach was taken. Real extensigraph samples were drawn on a computer equipped with the commercial FE package ABAQUS and using the anisotropic Bergstrom Boyce model with Mullins damage (ABBM) constitutive model to describe the dough’s rheology. Results show that the force–extension traces were affected by sample shape, and that thinning occurs more from the sides than the bulk for slumped samples. The FE predictions for sample shape effects on hook force were validated against real tests. Similar dependencies on sample shape are also predicted for the alveograph and Kieffer micro-extensigraph tests.
Rapid Mapping Method Based on Free Blocks of Surveys
Authors: Yu Xianwen , Wang Huiqing , Wang Jinling 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
While producing large-scale larger than 1:2000 maps in cities or towns, the obstruction from buildings leads to difficult and heavy tasks of measuring mapping control points. In order to avoid measuring the mapping control points and shorten the time of fieldwork, in this paper, a quick mapping method is proposed. This method adjusts many free blocks of surveys together, and transforms the points from all free blocks of surveys into the same coordinate system. The entire surveying area is divided into many free blocks, and connection points are set on the boundaries between free blocks. An independent coordinate system of every free block is established via completely free station technology, and the coordinates of the connection points, detail points and control points in every free block in the corresponding independent coordinate systems are obtained based on poly-directional open traverses. Error equations are established based on connection points, which are determined together to obtain the transformation parameters. All points are transformed from the independent coordinate systems to a transitional coordinate system via the transformation parameters. Several control points are then measured by GPS in a geodetic coordinate system. All the points can then be transformed from the transitional coordinate system to the geodetic coordinate system. In this paper, the implementation process and mathematical formulas of the new method are presented in detail, and the formula to estimate the precision of surveys is given. An example has demonstrated that the precision of using the new method could meet large-scale mapping needs.
Evaluation of the effects of roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) on oxidative stress and serum levels of lipids, insulin and hs-CRP in adult patients with metabolic syndrome: a double-blind placebo-controlled clinical trial
Authors: Asgary Sedigheh , Soltani Rasool , Zolghadr Mohsen , Keshvari Mahtab , Sarrafzadegan Nizal 
Published: March 2016

Abstract

Background: Roselle (Hibiscus sabdariffa L.) is a plant with antihyperlipidemic and antihypertensive effects. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of roselle calyces on the serum levels of lipids and insulin, inflammation, and oxidative stress in patients with metabolic syndrome (MetS).

Methods: Forty adult patients with MetS were randomly assigned to receive either 500 mg of H. sabdariffa calyx powder or placebo once daily for 4 weeks. Systolic and diastolic blood pressures (SBP and DBP) and BMI (body mass index) as well as fasting serum levels of glucose (FPG; fasting plasma glucose), insulin, lipoproteins, triglycerides (TG), high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (hs-CRP), and malondialdehyde (MDA) were determined pre- and post-intervention and compared.

Results: H. sabdariffa significantly reduced serum TG (p=0.044) and SBP (p=0.049) compared to placebo. All other variables were not significantly affected by the interventions.

Conclusions: Daily consumption of 500 mg of H. sabdariffa L. calyx powder can decrease SBP and serum TG in MetS patients.
Correlation of intrapartum translabial ultrasound parameters with computed tomographic 3D reconstruction of the female pelvis
Authors: Armbrust Robert , Henrich Wolfgang , Hinkson Larry , Grieser Christian , Siedentopf Jan-Peter 
Published: March 2016

AbstractIntrapartum translabial ultrasound [ITU] can be an objective, reproducible and more reliable method than digital vaginal examination when evaluating fetal head position and station in prolonged second stage of labor. However, two-dimensional (2D) ultrasound is not sufficient to demonstrate the ischial spines and other important “landmarks” of the female pelvis. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to evaluate the distance of the interspinous plane as a parallel line to the infrapubic line in 2D ITU with the help of 3D computed tomography and digital reconstruction.Mean distance between the infrapubic plane and the tip of the ischiadic spine was 32.35 (±4.46) mm. The mean height was 166 (±7) cm; the mean weight was 67.5 (±18.4) kg. Body height and the measured distance were significantly correlated (P=0.025; correlation coefficient of 0.5), whereas body weight was not (P=0.37; correlation coefficient of –0.214).With the present results, clinicians were enabled to transfer the reproducible measurements of the “head station” by ITU to the widespread but observer-depending vaginal examination. Furthermore, ITU can be verified as an objective method in comparison to subjective palpation with the ability to optimize the evaluation of the head station according to bony structures as landmarks in a standardized application.
Crystal structure of 2-phenyl-5,6,7,8-tetrahydro-4H-benzo[4,5]thieno[2,3-d][1,3]oxazin-4-one, C16H13NO2S
Authors: Ghabbour Hazem A. 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
C16H13NO2S, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 8.0873(4) Å, b = 12.7820(7) Å, c = 13.5574(7) Å, α = 74.880(2)°, β = 75.421(2)°, γ = 76.391(2)°, V = 1287.61(12) Å3, Z = 4, R
gt
(F) = 0.0413, wR
ref
(F
2
) = 0.1075, T = 100 K.
Crystal structure of 3-iodo-5-methoxy-7-(methoxymethoxy)-4-(3-methoxyphenoxy)-2H-chromen-2-one, C19H17IO7
Authors: Wang Shuang-Yan , Wei Qun 
Published: March 2016

Abstract
C19H17IO7, triclinic, P1̅ (no. 2), a = 9.2343(19) Å, b = 10.218(2) Å, c = 10.4199(18) Å, α = 72.629(8)°, β = 74.494(7)°, γ = 86.610(9)°, V = 903.9(3) Å3, Z = 2, R
gt
(F) = 0.0289, wR
ref
(F
2
) = 0.0670, T = 109 K.
Interpretation at the Controller’s Edge: Designing Graphical User Interfaces for the Digital Publication of the Excavations at Gabii (Italy)
Authors: Opitz Rachel S. , Johnson Tyler D. 
Published: March 2016

AbstractThis paper discusses the authors’ approach to designing an interface for the Gabii Project’s digital volumes that attempts to fuse elements of traditional synthetic publications and site reports with rich digital datasets. Archaeology, and classical archaeology in particular, has long engaged with questions of the formation and lived experience of towns and cities. Such studies might draw on evidence of local topography, the arrangement of the built environment, and the placement of architectural details, monuments and inscriptions (e.g. Johnson and Millett 2012). Fundamental to the continued development of these studies is the growing body of evidence emerging from new excavations. Digital techniques for recording evidence “on the ground,” notably SFM (structure from motion aka close range photogrammetry) for the creation of detailed 3D models and for scene-level modeling in 3D have advanced rapidly in recent years. These parallel developments have opened the door for approaches to the study of the creation and experience of urban space driven by a combination of scene-level reconstruction models (van Roode et al. 2012, Paliou et al. 2011, Paliou 2013) explicitly combined with detailed SFM or scanning based 3D models representing stratigraphic evidence. It is essential to understand the subtle but crucial impact of the design of the user interface on the interpretation of these models. In this paper we focus on the impact of design choices for the user interface, and make connections between design choices and the broader discourse in archaeological theory surrounding the practice of the creation and consumption of archaeological knowledge. As a case in point we take the prototype interface being developed within the Gabii Project for the publication of the Tincu House. In discussing our own evolving practices in engagement with the archaeological record created at Gabii, we highlight some of the challenges of undertaking theoretically-situated user interface design, and their implications for the publication and study of archaeological materials.