The characterization of substrate properties supports the correct choice components and directs management decisions in container cultivation. There are several systems analysis, however, routine procedures to determine water retention curve (WRC) time consuming inaccurate. This study proposed a reproducible, less time-consuming, easy perform method for physical substrates. We used Sphagnum pea...

We have developed an in situ method to estimate the lateral size of exfoliated nanosheets dispersed in a liquid. Using standard liquid exfoliation and size-selection techniques, we prepared a range of dispersions of graphene, MoS2 and WS2 nanosheets with different mean lateral sizes. The mean nanosheet length was measured using transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to vary from ∼40 nm to ∼1 μm...

Clouds are rapidly becoming an important platform for scientific applications. In the Cloud environment with uncountable numeric nodes, resource is inevitably unreliable, which has a great effect on task execution and scheduling. In this paper, inspired by Bayesian cognitive model and referring to the trust relationship models of sociology, we first propose a novel Bayesian method based cogniti...

1. Wu C-Y, Young L, Young D, Martel J, Young JD (2013) Bions: A Family of Biomimetic Mineralo-Organic Complexes Derived from Biological Fluids. PLoS ONE 8(9): e75501. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0075501 Figure 10: Increase in size and number, and sub-culture of bions. (A) Bions increase in size during incubation. Bions were prepared by adding 1 mM CaCl2, 10 mM MgCl2, 1 mM MnCl2, 5 mM SrCl2 or 3 mM...

differential transform method has been applied to solve many functional equations so far. in this article, we have used this method to solve wave-like equations. differential transform method is capable of reducing the size of computational work. exact solutions can also be achieved by the known forms of the series solutions. some examples are prepared to show theefficiency and simplicity of th...

A method for the quantitative estimation of lecithinase has been developed using rat intestinal mucosa as the lecithinase source. Optimal conditions for lecithinase preparation and assay involve the use of buffered glycerol media with cysteamine and EDTA to stabilize the activity. Lecithin hydrolysis proceeds with apparent first order reaction kinetics when sonicated lecithin-oleate suspensions...

Pulmonary surfactant obtained from lung lavages can be separated by differential centrifugation into two distinct subfractions known as large surfactant aggregates and small surfactant aggregates. The large-aggregate fraction is the precursor of the small-aggregate fraction. The ratio of the small non-surface-active to large surface-active surfactant aggregates increases after birth and in seve...