Despite being a perishable material, wood can nonetheless show in its full complexity the materiality of daily life activities, identity construction, economic exploitation, and adaptation colonial processes. The study two sets samples well-defined archaeological contexts from site Heping Dao, on northern coast Taiwan, has unveiled otherwise unknown aspects native exchange, adoption indigenous ...

There is increasing interest in using natural enemies to control pests urban green spaces, but this often hampered by a lack of information on particular pest groups. Here we provide an assessment for the first time seasonal population coccid species and its Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (A. Murray) Parl, 1864. The main pest, Planococcus vovae (Nasonov, 1909), attacked parasitoids predators. Accordi...

Distributions of growth strains in branches, straight trunks and basal sweeping trunks of Chamaecyparis formosensis Matsum. trees were measured with strain gauges. Microfibril angles (MFAs) of the S2 layer of the cell wall were measured by the iodine deposition method and their relationships with growth strain examined. The magnitude of the compressive stress on the lower side of trunks with a ...

The bark of Chamaecyparis lawsoniana (A. Murray) Parl. was extracted with methanol and sequentially partitioned with n-hexane, ethyl acetate, n-butanol and deionized water. The antioxidant activities of the four extracts were evaluated using the DPPH• and ABTS methods. The total phenolic content of the extracts was determined using the Folin-Ciocalteu method and expressed as gallic acid equival...