LOW-DENSITY ORIENTED STRAND BOARDS

Low-Density Oriented Strand Boards

This study evaluated the possibility of producing low-density oriented strand boards (OSB) from industrial chips of Pinus sylvestris L.Statistical analysis was used to determine the lowest possible density of resulting OSBs meeting the Log Basket requirements of EN standard 300 for type 3 boards.The analysis revealed that this type of board could b

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New Matrixes to Diagnose Aethina tumida Presence at Apiary Level

Aethina tumida (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae - Small Hive Beetle - SHB), is a parasite of honey bee colonies that causes the notifiable disease called aethinosis.In 2014, SHB was detected in Southern Italy, Injector Drivers where it is still present (Calabria region).As part of surveillance activities, official diagnosis of the disease is performed by v

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Leadership Structure, Gender Diversity and Audit Quality Influence on Earnings Management in Malaysian Listed Companies

The aim of this paper is to examine the effect of CEO duality, women directors and BIG 4 audit firm on real earnings manipulation (REM) proxied by cash flow from Baby Bags operation and discretionary expenses (DE).The sample of the study was Malaysian Public Listed Companies in year 2009-2012 with a sample of 1597 firm-year observations.Using regre

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Stationarity of aftershock activities of the 2016 Central Tottori Prefecture earthquake revealed by dense seismic observation

Abstract To clarify the relationship between earthquake occurrence and fluid, we analyzed data from a dense aftershock-observation network with 69 high-gain short-period seismographs installed immediately after the mainshock occurrence (October 21) in the aftershock area of the 2016 Central Tottori Prefecture earthquake.We determined the hypocenter

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