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Geostatistics for Mapping Leaf Area Index over a Cropland Landscape: Efficiency Sampling Assessment
2010
This paper evaluates the performance of spatial methods to estimate leaf area index (LAI) fields from ground-based measurements at high-spatial resolution over a cropland landscape. Three geostatistical model variants of the kriging technique, the ordinary kriging (OK), the collocated cokriging (CKC) and kriging with an external drift (KED) are used. The study focused on the influence of the spatial sampling protocol, auxiliary information, and spatial resolution in the estimates. The main advantage of these models lies in the possibility of considering the spatial dependence of the data and, in the case of the KED and CKC, the auxiliary information for each location used for prediction pur…
Characterization of spatial porosity and mineral distribution of crystalline rock using X-ray micro computed tomography, C-14-PMMA autoradiography an…
2019
The spatial porosity and mineral distribution of geological materials strongly affects transport processes in them. X-ray micro computed tomography (X-mu CT) has proven to be a powerful tool for characterizing the spatial mineral distribution of geological samples in 3-D. However, limitations in resolution prevent an accurate characterization of pore space especially for tight crystalline rock samples and 2-D methods such as C-14-polymethylmethacrylate (C-14-PMMA) autoradiography and scanning electron microscopy (SEM) are needed. The spatial porosity and mineral distributions of tight crystalline rock samples from Aspo, Sweden, and Olkiluoto, Finland, were studied here. The X-mu CT were use…
Implementació i avaluació de codis QR en laboratoris docents d’enginyeria química
2014
Els codis QR (Quick Response) són codis de barra àmpliament utilitzats en aplicacions comercials i de màrqueting per incloure enllaços a pàgines web, entre altres coses. En l'actualitat un gran nombre de dispositius electrònics com telèfons intel·ligents o tauletes compten amb aplicacions capaces de capturar aquesta informació, permetent al seu usuari emmagatzemar-la i compartir-la amb altres usuaris. Hi ha alguns exemples de la seva aplicació en l'educació, encara que no s'han trobat exemples en l'àrea d'Enginyeria Química. En aquest context, el treball que es presenta és la implantació i avaluació de codis QR en laboratoris docents d'Enginyeria Química amb accés a contingut docent multimè…
Mapping daily evapotranspiration at field to global scales using geostationary and polar orbiting satellite imagery
2010
Abstract. Thermal infrared (TIR) remote sensing of land-surface temperature (LST) provides valuable information about the sub-surface moisture status required for estimating evapotranspiration (ET) and detecting the onset and severity of drought. While empirical indices measuring anomalies in LST and vegetation amount (e.g., as quantified by the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index; NDVI) have demonstrated utility in monitoring ET and drought conditions over large areas, they may provide ambiguous results when other factors (soil moisture, advection, air temperature) are affecting plant stress. A more physically based interpretation of LST and NDVI and their relationship to sub-surface mo…
Arthrinium phaeospermum , Phoma cladoniicola and Ulocladium consortiale , New Olive Pathogens in Italy
2013
In recent years, leaf necrosis and twig dieback in the olive crop have been detected in Sicily (Italy). In this article, we identify the predominant fungal species associated with symptomatic leaves and twigs, using morphological features and DNA sequencing of the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) region, as Alternaria alternata, Arthrinium phaeospermum, Phoma cladoniicola and Ulocladium consortiale. The pathogenicity of these four species was tested on olive plants cv. Biancolilla. All species were pathogenic on leaves, but only U. consortiale produced cortical lesions on twigs, thus suggesting its main role in the Olea europaea twig dieback. To our knowledge, this is the first report of A…
Una rara complicanza precoce delle anastomosi digestive meccaniche:l’emorragia.
2006
Introduction: Bleeding from mechanical digestive anastomosis is an uncommon complication (0.9-3.2%) often self- limiting but potentially lethal if not evidenced intraoperatively or in the immediate postoperative. Material and methods: The Authors retrospectively report incidence of anastomotic bleeding after stapled anastomosis (11/163 = 6.7%) and analyse probable causes. In 6 of 11 patients (54%) intraoperative bleeding was stopped after manual reinforce of anastomosis (3/6) or stopped spontaneously (3/6). In 5 patients (45%), 1 with gastro-jejunal anastomosis, 2 with ileo-colonic anastomosis and 2 with colo-rectal anastomosis, they used endoscopy and endoscopic treatment in emergency. Res…
Construyendo la estabilidad en un Weak State: el caso de Venezuela
2014
Cada vez más aumenta el número de Estados que están experimentando situaciones propias del Weak State. La debilidad del Estado se ha asociado con su falta de “capacidad” y “disposición” para cumplir funciones esenciales como el suministro de unos bienes y servicios públicos (consumo conjunto). No obstante, determinar si un Estado es débil o si está en proceso de debilitamiento solo sobre la base del grado de cumplimiento en la entrega de un conjunto de bienes y servicios resulta insuficiente puesto que habría que considerar las razones por las cuales se producen tales incumplimientos, esto es, si se debe a una falta de capacidad y/o falta de voluntad propia de las administraciones políticas…
Unusual Regioselectivity in the Opening of Epoxides by Carboxylic Acid Enediolates
2008
Addition of carboxylic acid dianions appears to be a potential alternative to the use of aluminium enolates for nucleophilic ring opening of epoxides. These conditions require the use of a sub-stoichiometric amount of amine (10% mol) for dianion generation and the previous activation of the epoxide with LiCl. Yields are good, with high regioselectivity, but the use of styrene oxide led, unexpectedly, to a mixture resulting from the attack on both the primary and secondary carbon atoms. Generally, a low diastereoselectivity is seen on attack at the primary center, however only one diastereoisomer was obtained from attack to the secondary carbon of the styrene oxide.
Immobilizzazione di dipeptidi su resina polistirenica ed impiego in sintesi stereoselettive: risultati preliminari
2008
Categorical versus geometric morphometric approaches to characterising the evolution of morphological disparity in Osteostraci (Vertebrata, stem-Gnat…
2020
Morphological variation (disparity) is almost invariably characterised by two non-mutually exclusive approaches: (i) quantitatively, through geometric morphometrics, and (ii) in terms of discrete, 'cladistic', or categorical characters. Uncertainty over the comparability of these approaches diminishes the potential to obtain nomothetic insights into the evolution of morphological disparity and the few benchmarking studies conducted so far show contrasting results. Here, we apply both approaches to characterising morphology in the stem-gnathostome clade Osteostraci in order to assess congruence between these alternative methods as well as to explore the evolutionary patterns of the group in …