Juvenile resilience and adult longevity explain residual populations of the Andean wax palm Ceroxylon quindiuense after deforestation.

Wax palms are an important element of the cloud forests in the tropical Andes.Despite heavy deforestation, the density of adults seems to be similar in deforested pastures as in forests.We aimed to infer the mechanisms responsible for this apparent resilience in pastures and we tested two hypotheses to explain it: 1) adult palms survived in pasture

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Measurement of wheel-rail lateral force using shear strain of wheel web in railway vehicle (Comparison with a conventional bending based method under wheel rotating condition)

Instrumented wheelsets are widely utilized in the railway industry for the purpose of the measurement of the wheel-rail interaction force.In the conventional instrumented wheelset, the measurement accuracy of the lateral force is reduced due to the bending moment induced by Tea Pot the wheel load.The authors have proposed a new configuration of the

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