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Phloem water isotopically different to xylem water: Potential causes and implications for ecohydrological tracing

The stable isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen in xylem water are often used to investigate tree water sources. But this traditional approach does not acknowledge the contribution of water stored in the phloem to transpiration and how this may affect xylem wat ...

WILEY2022

A 3D printed bio-composite removable connection system for bamboo spatial structures

Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Romain Pascal T van Wassenhove

A 3D printed bio-composite removable connection system for bamboo space structures is introduced in this paper. The system consists of a removable clipping connection for raw bamboo structures, adapted to the European market. The use of parametric design a ...

2021

Application of Sustainable Bamboo-Based Composite Reinforcement in Structural-Concrete Beams: Design and Evaluation

Ian Smith

Reinforced concrete is the most widely used building material in history. However, alternative natural and synthetic materials are being investigated for reinforcing concrete structures, given the limited availability of steel in developing countries, the ...

2020

Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Wearable Assistive Device for Carrying Back Loads

This paper discusses about a low-cost wearable assistive device designed for people carrying back loads in mountainous regions of Uttarakhand, a northern state of India. People usually carry commodities like stationeries, gas cylinders, cow feeds and other ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2018

Simón Vélez architecte // La maîtrise du bambou

Pierre Frey

Avec pour seuls outils un cahier Clairefontaine et des crayons de couleur, l’architecte colombien Simon Vélez décline des structures complexes en bambou guadua (guadua angustifolia), espèce endémique des vallées colombiennes. En étroite collaboration avec ...

Actes Sud2013

Evaluation of bamboo for building elements satisfying housing criteria

David Javier Guzman Chavez

Bamboo – identified as a Non Timber Forest Product (NTFP) – offering optimal mechanical properties for construction purposes, and at the same time little studied among contemporary building materials, is paradoxically most used in precarious housing. The u ...

EPFL2008

Bioreactor processes based on disposable materials for the production of recombinant proteins from mammalian cells

Mathieu Benjamin Stettler

The objective of industrial cell culture technology is to produce high value-added therapeutic proteins that are well suited for the treatment of infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmune diseases. Nowadays, an important focus is the reduction of the tim ...

EPFL2007

Aluminum in the opal silica reticule of phytoliths: A new tool in palaeoecological studies

X-ray microanalysis was employed to screen biogenic plant silica extracted from the aboveground tissues of 20 species (Grammeae Cyperaceae. Ericaceae, and Coniferae) occurring in subalpine and alpine grasslands, heaths, and woodlands on siliceous bedrock i ...

2002

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