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Rapid Dissolution of Lignocellulosic Plant Materials in an Ionic Liquid
Concerns regarding the non-renewable nature of, and pollution from, petroleum derived energy and commercial products has led to the concept of a biomass economy. As part of this vision for a societ…
Received 07 August 2007 03:39 UTC; Posted 07 August 2007
Posted to: Chemistry, Earth & Environment, Plant Biology
High-Value Phytochemicals from Grape Cane Waste: Potential Value-Added Viticultural Sources of Trans-Resveratrol and Trans-e-Viniferin with Medicinal and Anti-Phytopathogenic Applications
Grape canes as agricultural waste from commercial viticultural activities represent a potentially important source of the well-known medicinal and anti-phytopathogenic stilbene compounds trans-resv…
Received 07 August 2007 01:49 UTC; Posted 07 August 2007
Posted to: Biotechnology, Chemistry, Pharmacology, Earth & Environment
Multi-site precipitation downscaling via an expanded conditional density network
Statistical downscaling models are used to estimate weather data at a station or stations based on atmospheric circulation data defined at a coarser resolution, for example gridded outputs from a G…
Received 12 July 2007 18:56 UTC; Posted 12 July 2007
Posted to: Earth & Environment
Changes in temperature-moisture covariance could increase soil carbon loss
Soils store about 1.5×10^16 g of carbon (C), about as much as terrestrial vegetation and atmosphere combined 1. The complex interplay between factors that regulate C release from soil through respi…
Received 28 June 2007 15:57 UTC; Posted 28 June 2007
Posted to: Earth & Environment
Environmental modelling and Web 2.0 – using Connotea to share XML-represented information
Much academic information can be represented in a structured way and published on the web as XML documents. Such information can then be displayed in a wide variety of ways, using different XSLT …
Received 20 January 2007 14:42 UTC; Posted 20 January 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Bioinformatics, Earth & Environment
Declarative modelling in the ecological and environmental sciences
Most simulation models in ecological and environmental research are implemented as computer programs in a conventional programming language. This brief paper argues for a radically different appr…
Received 19 January 2007 23:15 UTC; Posted 20 January 2007
Posted to: Ecology, Earth & Environment
