Tests were carried out in situ on panels cut from three different historic buildings in Italy: two in double-leaf rough hewn rubble stone masonry in Umbria and L'Aquila and another with solid brick masonry in Emilia.
The volume in 2011 is likely to be pretty small, though for 2012 the company is promising a volume somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 units, in rough parity with the Leaf and Chevy Volt.
Using a sharp knife, cut off the tip and rough sides of the leaf.
The versatile reactivity of polydopamine allows subsequent Ag deposition to form a lotus-leaf-like rough structure on the fabric surface.
The frog is cryptically coloured, its rough brown skin matching the leaf litter in which it lives.
When he and his father bought the place, in 1966, it was a rough spot called the Clover Leaf — "a neighborhood gin mill that had no business," Mr. Donovan, 79, said.
The green does most of the talking in the textural dialogue between plants and sculpture, noted Kim Tripp, the garden's chief horticulturist, between the waxy ivy and Henry Moore's smooth curves, or between an unkempt willow leaf and the rough-hewn bronze of Marino Marini's rearing horse, entitled "Miracle".
The cylindrical stems are characterized by persistent leaf sheaths with stiff rough bristles; the leaves are long and narrow.
We placed each specimen on four substrates (slate, artificial leaf (leaf), limestone, and rough bark; Figure 3) for tomography (16 × 2 × 4 = 128 images).
One, known as the loquat leaf oak (Quercus rysophylla), has rough dark green leaves much like the Chinese fruit tree and graceful branches spiraling up its trunk.
