Cu and Zn are known to be abundant in swine feces; hence, concentrations of these metals need lowered before feces applied land order prevent potential environmental problems. The main objective this study was develop an appropriate chemical process remove from using acid extractions. removal efficiencies decreased the H2SO4 > HNO3 organic acids (citric oxalic acids). Owing highest by H2SO4,...

abstract in order to optimum utilization of diazinon on rice stem borer, chilo suppressalis walker (lepidoptera: pyralidae), an experiment was conducted with two factors including, rice varieties (tarom-mahalli, khazar, nemat) and application times (control with no application, first generation application, second generation application, first and second generations application and four times a...

several species of phytophthora cause crown and root rot diseases of herbaceous and woody plants. crown and root rot of pistachio trees cause significant damages in infected orchards. the effect of foliar application with elite (fosetyl-al) in 2 and 2.5 g/l was evaluated in greenhouse experiments. the frequency of mortality, fresh and dry weight of roots and shoots, height, intensity of crown r...

The Track-Before-Detect (TBD) algorithms are applied for the tracking of signals below the noise floor. The noise object is the signal that has noise samples only. The processing of such signal using Spatio-Temporal TBD is not possible directly. The proposed preprocessing technique allows analysis of the signal using moving window approach and dot product calculations. Two vectors, related to t...

Esfinge is a general domain Portuguese question answering system which uses the information available on the Web as an additional resource when searching for answers. Other external resources and tools used are a broad coverage parser, a morphological analyser, a named entity recognizer and a Web-based database of word co-occurrences. In this fourth participation in CLEF, in addition to the new...

Four studies explored people's judgments about whether particular types of behavior are compatible with determinism. Participants read a passage describing a deterministic universe, in which everything that happens is fully caused by whatever happened before it. They then assessed the degree to which different behaviors were possible in such a universe. Other participants evaluated the extent t...

the authors have developed methods to characterize and quantify uncertainty in acoustic environmental predictions. We have developed methods for reflecting this uncertainty in tactical systems such as senor performance prediction, search plan recommendation, and track and detect systems that rely on environmental inputs. Uncertainty in performance prediction can result from model error and unce...