Durable protection of the surface of wood used outdoors: material constraints, problems and approaches to solutions

The aesthetic durability of wooden structures is a major challenge for the use of this material in construction.Wood is used for its technical performances but also for its architectural qualities and its aesthetic perception.The premature aging of the wooden structures is detrimental because these disorders, even if they do not affect the strength

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Short communication: Prevalence of deleterious variants causing recessive disorders in Italian Chianina, Marchigiana and Romagnola cattle

In the last two decades, the molecular cause of six monogenic autosomal recessive disorders has been identified in native Italian beef cattle: two different ATP2A1 variants for the pseudomyotonia congenita, the first in Chianina and Romagnola (PMT1) and the second in Romagnola (PMT2); a KDM2B variant for the paunch calf syndrome (PCS) in Marchigian

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Improvement of annual forage and seed production in the sub-humid zone of Nigeria through supplement irrigation

A two-year study was conducted at Shika in the Northern Guinea Savanna of Nigeria to evaluate several perennial and annual forage species for seasonal and total annual herbage and/or seed production.Over the entire experimental period, total dry matter (DM) yields for grasses, perennial and hay-suited annual legumes varied from 27.5 to 79.1, 18.8 t

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