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    Biomasa y productividad aérea de bosques de "Austrocedrus chilensis" en Río Negro, Argentina

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    El objetivo de este trabajo fue determinar la biomasa y la productividad de un bosque puro de Austrocedrus chilensis y analizar los efectos de las diferencias estructurales sobre el rendimiento de productos comerciales. Los rodales estudiados son bosques secundarios ubicados en la Reserva Forestal Loma del Medio-Río Azul en la localidad de El Bolsón. Se seleccionaron tres rodales (R1, R2 y R3) representativos de situaciones que estructuralmente conforman estadíos maduros y completamente poblados, pero con diferencias estructurales. En cada rodal se instalaron tres parcelas circulares con superficies entre 500 y 1000 m2. Se analizó la distribución de frecuencias por clases de tamaño. La biomasa se determinó mediante técnicas de análisis dimensional y la productividad fue estimada mediante la suma de la caída anual y los incrementos corrientes de la biomasa aérea. Los tres rodales no presentaron diferencias significativas en la biomasa total ni en sus componentes, pero si resultaron diferentes en términos de la densidad y sus distribuciones de tamaño. Las diferencias estructurales en densidad, diámetro cuadrático medio y altura dominante no se reflejaron en notorias diferencias de productividad (7,2, 5,9 y 6,8 Mg.ha-1.año-1 para R1, R2 y R3 respectivamente). Sin embargo, se detectaron diferencias significativas en el rendimiento de productos maderables, cuya valorización se basa en las características dimensionales, con 80% y 38 % menos volumen de estos productos en los rodales R1 y R2 que en R3

    Patient-specific virtual simulations of stenting procedures in coronary bifurcations

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    Currently, most of the numerical models that simulate stenting procedures lack of patient-specificity resulting in their limited use in the clinical field. Indeed, simulating stenting procedures in idealized geometries can only provide standard guidelines. On the other hand, patient-specific tools able to realistically simulate different interventional options might facilitate clinical choices and increase their current application. Thus, the aim of this work is the implementation of a patient specific virtual model that uses image-based reconstructions of coronary bifurcations. Two cases of adult males treated with a provisional T-stenting without final kissing balloon were investigated

    Wind erosion in a semiarid agricultural area of Spain: the WELSONS project

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    The co-ordinated European research project Wind Erosion and Loss of SOil Nutrients in semiarid Spain (WELSONS) was carried out from 1996 to 1999 to understand and predict the potential impacts of land-use change and management on soil degradation by wind erosion on agricultural land in Central Aragon, a semiarid desertification-threatened region in NE Spain. This paper gives a description of the project's experimental approach and an overview of the main results regarding the effects of agricultural practices (i.e. conventional, CT, versus reduced tillage, RT) on surface conditions affecting wind erosion, the mobilisation of soil particles in the saltation layer and the atmospheric emission of fine dust into the suspension layer. The characterisation of the soil surface showed that soil erodibility by wind under RT was lower than that under CT. Though strong Cierzo wind events occurred during the experimental period, only a limited amount of material was available for wind erosion mainly due to soil crusting, a common feature in the area. In spite of this, saltation transport flux was measured at CT plots for different erosion episodes. Also, significant vertical emission of dust was observed only in the CT plot. Finally, the sandblasting efficiency calculated in the present experiment could be interpreted as the result of a higher binding energy for the particles of the silt loam experimental soil compared to soils with a lighter texture
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