The purpose of this paper is to explore the influential factors on entrepreneurial spirit of wood and paper industries students in two universities, namely Agriculture and natural resources faculty of Tehran University and Shahid Rajaiee teacher training University. A sample of 100 students were selected from a target population of 572 students using the Cochran formula. The respondents ...

In the last years, the Annals of the Brazilian Academy of Sciences (AABC) has published several interesting papers on paleontology, varying from Quaternary microfossils (Utida et al. 2012), Argentinean woods from Santa Cruz (Vera and Césari 2012), Cretaceous lizards (Simões 2012), and turtle eggs from China (Wang et al. 2013), just to mention a few. On the same lines, the present issue of the A...

Homer and Wigley (1936) reported a case of dermatitis due to Mansonia wood (Sterculiacea altissima) and in his annual report the Chief Inspector of Factories (1936) also reported that the dust of this wood could give rise to serious symptoms and in this respect compared it with African box wood. There are apparently no other reports of the possible dangers relating to the use of this wood, and,...

This paper examines the current wood tracking information systems used in international wood trade aiming to prevent and control illegally logged timber and wood products trade. Moreover, innovative log tracking mechanisms and technologies are also described and assessed. Wood tracking can add value to the wood product, by establishing an information system aiming to recognize and locate legal ...