Saline lakes provide a prey-rich, predator-free environment for birds to utilize during migration and stopover periods. The Great Salt Lake (GSL), Utah is the largest salt lake in North America and is utilized by millions of migratory birds. It also is host to multiple commercial endeavors. Proposed expansion of commercial use of the GSL would result in increased impounded area and water extrac...

Haloarchaea that inhabit Great Salt Lake (GSL), a thalassohaline terminal lake, must respond to the fluctuating climate conditions of the elevated desert of Utah. We investigated how shifting environmental factors, specifically salinity and temperature, affected gene expression in the GSL haloarchaea, NA6-27, which we isolated from the hypersaline north arm of the lake. Combined data from culti...

The effects of storage conditions and cooking methods on chlorophyll, glucosinolate (GSL), sulforaphane content in broccoli florets were investigated this study. For the experiment, fresh stored for 2, 4, 6 days at 10, 0 °C with or without 1-methylcyclopropene (1-MCP) treatment. cooked 1, 3, 5, 7, 9 min under three methods, namely, steaming, microwaving, boiling. Results showed that contents al...

The terrestrial gross primary productivity (GPP) has increased over the past two decades. However, climatic attribution and physiological phenological processes that control trends in GPP are still unclear. Here, we used remote-sensing-based vegetation phenology datasets, analyzed spatial temporal variation GPP, investigated influence of growing season length (GSL) maximum value (GPPmax) on ann...

A classical and quantum mechanical generalized second law of thermodynamics in cosmology implies constraints on the effective equation of state of the universe in the form of energy conditions, obeyed by many known cosmological solutions, and is compatible with entropy bounds which forbid certain cosmological singularities. In string cosmology the second law provides new information about the e...

A potential use of cold-bonded geopolymer stabilizers made with metakaolin and slag for grouting in ground enhancement was aimed to experimentally research this article. The rheological, fresh strength performances the cement (PC)-based grouts (MK), (SL), geopolymerized (GMK), (GSL) (GSL + MK) were investigated purpose. At a wide range stabilizer replacement (0%–100%) common ratio water/binder ...

Previous studies indicate that the hatching success of brine shrimp (Artemia franciscana) cysts is surprisingly sensitive to ambient metal concentrations. These studies estimated median effective concentrations (EC50s) of 7, 5, and 28 microg l-1 for Cd, Cu, and Zn, suggesting that the hatching end point for A. franciscana is the most sensitive tested to date for Cd and Zn in saline environments...

Let predicate P be converted from Boolean to numeric type by writing 〈P 〉, with 〈false〉 being 0 and 〈true〉 being 1, so that in a degenerate sense 〈P 〉 can be regarded as ‘the probability that P holds in the current state’. Then add explicit numbers and arithmetic operators, to give a richer language of arithmetic formulae into which predicates are embedded by 〈·〉. Abrial’s generalised substitut...

This paper reports results from a corpus-based study that explored the frequency of words in the abstracts of applied linguistics journal articles. The abstracts of major articles in leading applied linguists journals, published since 2005 up to November 2001 were analyzed using software modules from the Compleat Lexical Tutor. The output includes a list of the most frequent content words, list...