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View article: Pyreno-1,2,4-Triazines as Multifunctional Luminogenic Click Reagents
Pyreno-1,2,4-Triazines as Multifunctional Luminogenic Click Reagents Open
Several examples of 1,2,4-triazine that contain a pyrene fragment attached to position C5 and carbonyl functional groups in position C3 of the triazine ring have been prepared. While pyrene is widely used luminophore, the carboxylic acid i…
View article: A comparison of NIR spectroscopy and colour measurements for the classification of radiata pine timber thermally modified over a narrow temperature range
A comparison of NIR spectroscopy and colour measurements for the classification of radiata pine timber thermally modified over a narrow temperature range Open
The New Zealand Building Code is unique in the world in having prescribed durability requirements for all building elements, including interior timber such as flooring. Heavy metal preservatives are still used extensively for this purpose,…
View article: Pyreno-1,2,4-triazines as multifunctional luminogenic click reagents
Pyreno-1,2,4-triazines as multifunctional luminogenic click reagents Open
1,2,4-Triazines serve as versatile scaffolds for the functionalisation of pyrene luminophores.
View article: Use of environmental forensics to assess land sustainability: a case study on a former coal mining site
Use of environmental forensics to assess land sustainability: a case study on a former coal mining site Open
An environmental forensics investigation of a former coal mining site in NE England. What is determining poor vegetative growth in some areas?
View article: Use of remote sensing and image processing for identification of wild orchids
Use of remote sensing and image processing for identification of wild orchids Open
A novel multi-technique approach has been applied for the identification and mapping of wild orchids using a combination of remote sensing and spectral image analysis. The five orchid species identified were the common spotted-orchid ( Dac…
View article: Use of remote sensing to assess vegetative stress as a proxy for soil contamination
Use of remote sensing to assess vegetative stress as a proxy for soil contamination Open
We demonstrate the potential of deploying a UAV with MSI camera to contribute useful diagnostics on potential sub-surface contamination from an operational oil reprocessing site and report the impact on the environment after 50 years of op…
View article: Use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of oilseed rape crop performance
Use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of oilseed rape crop performance Open
The flowering stage of oilseed rape ( Brassica napus L.) is of vital interest in precision agriculture. It has been shown that data describing the flower production of oilseed rape (OSR), at stage 3, in spring can be used to predict seed y…
View article: Use of machine learning for monitoring the growth stages of an agricultural crop
Use of machine learning for monitoring the growth stages of an agricultural crop Open
As one of the world's major crops, oats ( Avena sativa L.) require management strategies to increase their yield and quality.
View article: Winter beans: the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of crop performance
Winter beans: the use of an unmanned aerial vehicle for monitoring and prediction of crop performance Open
Traditional field-based techniques for phenotyping of crops are based on visual assessment which are subjective and time consuming. A high throughput automated technique using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a multispectral image (MS…
View article: Gender disparities in cardiovascular care: the need to educate and advocate for equal care for women
Gender disparities in cardiovascular care: the need to educate and advocate for equal care for women Open
Following the International Women’s Day campaign in March, Fitzsimons and colleagues highlight current gender disparities in cardiovascular disease care, diagnosis and treatment and discuss how gender equality can be promoted in clinical p…
View article: Applied aerial spectroscopy: A case study on remote sensing of an ancient and semi-natural woodland
Applied aerial spectroscopy: A case study on remote sensing of an ancient and semi-natural woodland Open
An area of ancient and semi-natural woodland (ASNW) has been investigated by applied aerial spectroscopy using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multispectral image (MSI) camera. A novel normalised difference spectral index (NDSI) algo…
View article: Applied aerial spectroscopy: A case study on remote sensing of an ancient and semi-natural woodland
Applied aerial spectroscopy: A case study on remote sensing of an ancient and semi-natural woodland Open
An area of ancient and semi-natural woodland (ASNW) has been investigated by applied aerial spectroscopy using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with multispectral image (MSI) camera. A novel normalised difference spectral index (NDSI) algo…
View article: The Use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Tree Phenotyping Studies
The Use of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle for Tree Phenotyping Studies Open
A strip of 20th-century landscape woodland planted alongside a 17th to mid-18th century ancient and semi-natural woodland (ASNW) was investigated by applied aerial spectroscopy using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) with a multispectral im…
View article: The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082)
The Admiral, the Virgin, and the Spectrometer: Observations on the Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082) Open
This article examines the nature and implications of the extensive Marian texts and imagery in the mid-fifteenth- century Parisian Coëtivy Hours (Dublin, Chester Beatty Library, MS W082), and reports the findings from scientific investiga-…
View article: Issue Information
Issue Information Open
Building sustainability into proven practices
View article: There’s more to reflectance spectroscopy than lux
There’s more to reflectance spectroscopy than lux Open
Fibre-optic reflectance spectroscopy is widely used as a tool for the analysis of coloured materials such as pigments and paints. We describe a new design for a FORS probe which is held some 5cm away from the sample surface and interrogate…
View article: CCDC 1817005: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817005: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: Raman spectroscopic library of medieval pigments collected with five different wavelengths for investigation of illuminated manuscripts
Raman spectroscopic library of medieval pigments collected with five different wavelengths for investigation of illuminated manuscripts Open
Stepwise identification of medieval pigments by Raman spectra data and excitation source.
View article: Tailored supramolecular gel and microemulsion crystallization strategies – is isoniazid really monomorphic?
Tailored supramolecular gel and microemulsion crystallization strategies – is isoniazid really monomorphic? Open
A tailored supramolecular gel and microemulsion crystallization strategy has been applied to isoniazid crystal screening.
View article: CCDC 1817001: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817001: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: CCDC 1817000: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817000: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: CCDC 1817004: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817004: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: CCDC 1817002: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817002: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: CCDC 1817006: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination
CCDC 1817006: Experimental Crystal Structure Determination Open
An entry from the Cambridge Structural Database, the world’s repository for small molecule crystal structures. The entry contains experimental data from a crystal diffraction study. The deposited dataset for this entry is freely available …
View article: Identifying eighteenth century pigments at the Bodleian library using in situ Raman spectroscopy, XRF and hyperspectral imaging
Identifying eighteenth century pigments at the Bodleian library using in situ Raman spectroscopy, XRF and hyperspectral imaging Open
There are multiple challenges in analysing pigments in historic watercolour paintings on paper, and typically non-invasive, in situ methods are required. Recent developments in portable analytical instrumentation have made this more access…
View article: New light on old illuminations
New light on old illuminations Open
This article describes a unique suite of mobile equipment designed for non-invasive, non-destructive identification of the inks and pigments in medieval manuscripts. It explains the circumstances which led to the development of the equipme…
View article: Shedding light on medieval manuscripts
Shedding light on medieval manuscripts Open
It is not every issue that one of our articles starts with a quotation in medieval English, and it is appropriate as two of our articles cover the use of spectroscopy in cultural heritage. This is yet another field where the rich informati…
View article: Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance
Uncommon Tongues: Eloquence and Eccentricity in the English Renaissance Open
comptes rendus 211 remembrance of things past or the substance of things hoped for.Readers who prefer to treat "apocalypse" as a historically-conditioned phenomenon will have to account for the resistance to teleological futurity that Netz…
View article: Illuminators’ Pigments in Lancastrian England
Illuminators’ Pigments in Lancastrian England Open
The pigments used in four high-status, datable, late medieval English manuscripts are identified by scientific methods. The palette and painting techniques of the illuminators responsible are studied individually then comparatively.
View article: Three cocrystals and a cocrystal salt of pyrimidin-2-amine and glutaric acid
Three cocrystals and a cocrystal salt of pyrimidin-2-amine and glutaric acid Open
Four new cocrystals of pyrimidin-2-amine and propane-1,3-dicarboxylic (glutaric) acid were crystallized from three different solvents (acetonitrile, methanol and a 50:50 wt% mixture of methanol and chloroform) and their crystal structures …