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Antimicrobial effect of Picea abies extracts on E. coli growth
(2019)This study aims to investigate the e ect of essential oils extracted from wood residues of Picea abies on the growth of Escherichia coli. The essential oils were extracted by supercritical carbon dioxide, leading to a yield ... -
Eddy covariance raw data processing for CO2 and energy fluxes calculation at ICOS ecosystem stations
(2018)The eddy covariance is a powerful technique to estimate the surface-atmosphere exchange of different scalars at the ecosystem scale. The EC method is central to the ecosystem component of the Integrated Carbon Observation ... -
Water requirements of short rotation poplar coppice: Experimental and modelling analyses across Europe
(2018)Poplars are among the most widely used short rotation woody coppice (SRWC) species but due to their assumed high water use, concerns have been raised with respect to large-scale exploitation and potentially detrimental ... -
ICOS eddy covariance flux-station site setup: a review
(2018)The Integrated Carbon Observation System Re-search Infrastructure aims to provide long-term, continuous observations of sources and sinks of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and water vapour. ... -
Reduced-order observers for nonlinear state estimation in flexible multibody systems
(Hindawi Limited, 2018)Modern control schemes adopted in multibody systems take advantage of the knowledge of a large set of measurements of the most important state variables to improve system performances. In the case of flexible-link multibody ... -
Numerical study of the interplay between thermo-topographic slope flow and synoptic flow on canopy transport processes
(2018)Canopy flow resulting from interaction between thermo-topographic slope flow and large-scale synoptic flow is very complicated and has been poorly understood. We apply a Reynolds-averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) turbulence ... -
Importance of reporting ancillary site characteristics, and management and disturbance information at ICOS stations
(2018)There are many factors that influence ecosystem scale carbon, nitrogen and greenhouse gas dynamics, including the inherent heterogeneity of soils and vegetation, anthropogenic management interventions, and biotic and abiotic ... -
Design of Engineered Elastomeric Substrate for Stretchable Active Devices and Sensors
(WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH, 2018)In the field of flexible electronics, emerging applications require biocompatible and unobtrusive devices, which can withstand different modes of mechanical deformation and achieve low complexity in the fabrication process. ... -
Ancillary vegetation measurements at ICOS ecosystem stations
(2018)The Integrated Carbon Observation System is a Pan-European distributed research infrastructure that has as its main goal to monitor the greenhouse gas balance of Europe. The ecosystem component of Integrated Carbon Observation ... -
Pushing digital automation of configure-to-order services in small and medium enterprises of the construction equipment industry: A design science research approach
(2019)In order to efficiently transform business processes (such as product design, product engineering, production, logistics, sales, deliveries, etc.) into digitally automated processes, new concepts have been introduced in ... -
Towards long-term standardised carbon and greenhouse gas observations for monitoring Europe's terrestrial ecosystems: a review
(2018)Research infrastructures play a key role in launching a new generation of integrated long-term, geographically distributed observation programmes designed to monitor climate change, better understand its impacts on global ... -
Standardisation of chamber technique for CO2, N2O and CH4 fluxes measurements from terrestrial ecosystems
(2018)Chamber measurements of trace gas fluxes between the land surface and the atmosphere have been conducted for almost a century. Different chamber techniques, including static and dynamic, have been used with varying degrees ... -
Quality, prices and production efficiency: an exploratory study of italian wines with appellation of origin
(2018)Wine is a complex and highly differentiated product of a very wide and heterogeneous compartment, where quality plays an important role in determining demand. Wine production in Italy is unique in the world and important ... -
Impact of CO2 storage flux sampling uncertainty on net ecosystem exchange measured by eddy covariance
(2018)Complying with several assumption and simplifications, most of the carbon budget studies based on eddy covariance (EC) measurements quantify the net ecosystem exchange (NEE) by summing the flux obtained by EC (FC) and the ... -
Thermodynamics and kinetics of the Fenton reaction in foods
(2019)A major cause of food oxidation is free-radical generation via the Fenton reaction. Calorimetric measurement of heat rate during the reaction between food antioxidants and H2O2 with added Fe(II), the catalyst in the Fenton ... -
Soil-meteorological measurements at ICOS monitoring stations in terrestrial ecosystems
(2018)The Integrated Carbon Observation System is a pan-European research infrastructure providing standardized, long-term observations of greenhouse gas concentrations and earth-atmosphere greenhouse gas interactions. The ... -
Impacts of droughts and extreme-temperature events on gross primary production and ecosystem respiration: a systematic assessment across ecosystems and climate zones
(2018)Extreme climatic events, such as droughts and heat stress, induce anomalies in ecosystem-atmosphere CO2 fluxes, such as gross primary production (GPP) and ecosystem respiration (R-eco), and, hence, can change the net ... -
Water footprint and economic water productivity of Italian wines with appellation of origin: Managing sustainability through an integrated approach
(2018)In the agribusiness, wine is certainly a very interesting sector to analyze. The specific aim of this work is to assess water efficiency and economic water productivity for the Italian wines with Appellation of Origin (AO). ... -
Hand-Drawn Resistors, Capacitors, Diodes, and Circuits for a Pressure Sensor System on Paper
(2018)Hand-written fabrication techniques offer new ways of developing customizable, biodegradable, and low-cost electronic systems. In this work, a new level of complexity is demonstrated for hand-written electronics by fabricating ... -
Managing Water Sustainability: Virtual Water Flows and Economic Water Productivity Assessment of the Wine Trade between Italy and the Balkans
(2018)The management of natural resources in economic activities has become a fundamental issue when considering the perspective of sustainable development. It is necessary to rethink every process in order to reach efficiency ...
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