Hole doping of cuprate superconductors removes electrons from the antibonding planar Cu3dx2−y2O2pxy states; thus increasing doping is expected to shorten the planar Cu–O bonds. All accessible crystallographic data, however, give evidence for a significant deviation from the Pauling-type contraction of covalent bonds on increasing covalency. Between the onset of superconductivity at nI−M = 0.07(...

Mixed model estimation methods were used to fit individual-tree basal area growth models to tree and stand-level measurements available from permanent plots established in naturally regenerated shortleaf pine (Pinus echinata Mill.) even-aged stands in western Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma in the USA. As a part of the development of a comprehensive distance-independent individual-tree shortleaf ...

In percentile method, percentiles of the diameter distribution are predicted with a system of models. The continuous empirical diameter distribution function is then obtained by interpolating between the predicted values of percentiles. In Finland, the distribution is typically modelled as a basal-area weighted distribution, which is transformed to a traditional density function for application...

AIM To determine if a regimen with prandial + basal insulin compared with basal insulin attenuates post-meal inflammatory and glycative biomarkers in patients with Type 2 diabetes. METHODS This test-meal sub-study in the USA is from a previously reported clinical trial comparing the effect on glycaemic control of 24 weeks of thrice-daily pre-meal insulin lispro mix 50 (50% insulin lispro, 50%...

We studied the effects of stand parameters (crown closure, basal area, stand volume, age, mean stand diameter number of trees, and heterogeneity index) and geomorphology features (elevation, aspect and slope) on tree species diversity in an example of untreated natural mixed forest stands in the eastern Black Sea region of Turkey. Tree species diversity and basal area heterogeneity in forest ec...

This paper presents a dominant height and basal area response function for juvenile (ages 2-8) loblolly pine stands that have been fertilized with a combination dose of 200 lbs/ac of nitrogen and 50 lbs/ac of phosphorus. The data used to construct the response functions originated from the Region-wide 2 Study of the North Carolina State University Forest Nutrition Cooperative. The data set incl...

In most cases forest practice in Austria use yield tables to predict the growth of their forests. Common yield tables show the increment of pure even-aged stands which are treated in a way the table developer recommends. The usage of these tables in stands which are either unevenaged, mixed or treated in another way, may lead to inaccurate predictions. To avoid these problems, forest growth mod...