Les inventaires nationaux en Europe : tentative de synthèse

Book published by Faculté des Sciences Agronomiques (1992)

To better manage the forest resources and to define a national forest policy, one needs objective information about the growing timber, the quantity and the quality of wood volume and how this volume ... [more ▼]

To better manage the forest resources and to define a national forest policy, one needs objective information about the growing timber, the quantity and the quality of wood volume and how this volume changes with time. To fulfill this type of needs, many european countries are getting together reliable information through permanent forest inventory. This study describes the inventory systems used in twelve european countries. Special attention is paid to the sampling designs, the field measurements, the type of collected data, the implementation of new technologies such as remote sensing, the electronic data processing and the presentation of the inventory results. Other general aspects as the general organization of the inventory and the way used to make it permanent are also presented. The situation which is now observed in Belgium is briefly analyzed too. [less ▲]

Lifetimes in Fe II and the solar abundance of iron

in Astronomy and Astrophysics (1992), 259

New atomic lifetimes have been determined for eight quartet (z 4D, z 4F) levels and ten sextet (z 6D, z 6F, z 6P) levels in Fe II and the results for seven of these levels have been combined with existing ... [more ▼]

New atomic lifetimes have been determined for eight quartet (z 4D, z 4F) levels and ten sextet (z 6D, z 6F, z 6P) levels in Fe II and the results for seven of these levels have been combined with existing experimental branching fractions to obtain a revised set of log gf-values for 15 solar lines in Fe II. The new log gf data are used together with equivalent widths determined from the Liege solar atlas to derive a value for the iron photospheric abundance: 7.48 +/- 0.04, which is consistent with the currently accepted meteoritic result, 7.51 +/- 0.01. The results are compared with the atomic lifetime data, log gf data and solar analyses used in three other recent solar abundance determinations based on Fe II lines. [less ▲]

Environmental monitoring at FUL

in Journal on automatic control (1992), 33

The paper presents the research and teaching activities of Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise (Arlon) and more particularly in the domain of Environmental Monitoring. Particular attention is given to ... [more ▼]

The paper presents the research and teaching activities of Fondation Universitaire Luxembourgeoise (Arlon) and more particularly in the domain of Environmental Monitoring. Particular attention is given to "intelligent measurement, bio-sensors and event forecast algorithms. The team of researchers tries to integrate the three steps of monitoring: measurement, data processing and decision making support. It develops short-term fog forecasting tools, water quality sensors, soil water status quality assessment techniques and uses models describing soil and water transfers in soils and artificial intelligence techniques applied to energy management in buildings. [less ▲]

La condition juridique de la femme dans l'antiquité romaine

Learning material (1992)

Are There Common Trends in European Stock Markets?

E-print/Working paper (1992)

Applications de l'échographie en reproduction bovine. 1. L'examen des ovaires.

in Annales de Médecine Vétérinaire (1992), 137

Les vicissitudes de la notion de vice de la chose

in Actualités du Droit (1992), (4), 1307-1331

Analysis of the case law of the Belgian Supreme court , concerning the responsibility of the guard of a thing affected by a vice for damage caused by this one. Across numerous court orders, is it possible ... [more ▼]

Analysis of the case law of the Belgian Supreme court , concerning the responsibility of the guard of a thing affected by a vice for damage caused by this one. Across numerous court orders, is it possible to clear a definition of the vice of the thing likely to hire the responsibility of the guard? [less ▲]

HD160529: a new galactic Luminous Blue Variable

(1992)

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La pessière wallonne: son évolution entre 1980 et 1990.

in Silva Belgica (1992), 99(4), 7-14

Au début des années 1980, un inventaire des forêts wallonnes a été réalisé en vue de dresser rapidement, par échantillonnage systématique, un état aussi objectif que possible des ressources ligneuses ... [more ▼]

Au début des années 1980, un inventaire des forêts wallonnes a été réalisé en vue de dresser rapidement, par échantillonnage systématique, un état aussi objectif que possible des ressources ligneuses régionales, principalement en termes de surfaces et de volumes sur pied. En 1990, en vue d’actualiser les données, un nouvel inventaire a été effectué sur un sous-échantillon du précédent. La présente étude fournit, dans une large mesure, une mise à jour des données relatives aux peuplements d’épicéa commun (Picea abies (L.) KARST) et publiées dans un document intitulé « La pessière wallonne en chiffres » (RONDEUX et al., 1984b). Elle devrait aussi permettre de construire un modèle mathématique de prévision de la production d’épicéa pour les années à venir. Dans les lignes qui suivent, après avoir justifié le bien-fondé de pareille étude (paragraphe 2), nous décrirons la méthode d’analyse que nous avons utilisée (paragraphe 3). Nous présenterons ensuite les principaux résultats obtenus (paragraphe 4). Nous terminerons par quelques considérations relatives à la situation actuelle des pessières concernées ainsi qu’aux principales raisons qui la sous-tendent (paragraphe 5). [less ▲]

Characterization of regulatory functions of the varicella-zoster virus gene-63-encoded protein

in Journal of Virology (1992), 66(6), 3899-3903

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) gene 63 encodes a protein (IE63) with a predicted molecular mass of 30.5 kDa which has amino acid similarities to the immediate-early (IE) protein 22 (ICP22) of herpes simplex ... [more ▼]

Varicella-zoster virus (VZV) gene 63 encodes a protein (IE63) with a predicted molecular mass of 30.5 kDa which has amino acid similarities to the immediate-early (IE) protein 22 (ICP22) of herpes simplex virus type 1. ICP22 is a polypeptide synthesized in herpes simplex virus type 1-infected cells, and as is the case for its VZV counterpart, its regulatory functions are unknown. On the basis of the VZV DNA sequence, it has been shown that IE63 exhibits hydrophilic and acidic properties, suggesting that this protein could play a regulatory role during the infectious cycle. We report in this article cotransfection experiments which demonstrate that the VZV gene 63 protein strongly represses, in a dose-dependent manner, the expression of VZV gene 62. On the other hand, transient expression of the VZV gene 63 protein can promote activation of the thymidine kinase gene but cannot affect the expression of the genes encoding glycoproteins I and II. The results of transient expression experiments strongly suggest that the VZV gene 63 protein could play a pivotal role in the repression of IE gene expression as well as in the activation of early gene expression [less ▲]