increasing urbanisation and industrialisation have led to a dramatic reduction in forest area, and now only culturally protected remnants of natural forests and some new plantations remain in most areas of the north of iran. to investigate the status of the chemical and physical characteristics of soil under these remnant forests and assess the possible impacts of reforestation on soil properti...

Nguyen, Minhtri K., and Ira Kurtz. A new formula for predicting alterations in plasma sodium concentration in peritoneal dialysis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 288: F1113–F1117, 2005; doi:10.1152/ajprenal.00387.2004.—Alterations in the plasma water sodium concentration ([Na ]pw) result from changes in the total exchangeable sodium (Nae), total exchangeable potassium (Ke), and total body water (TB...

Corn (Zea mays L.) grown on sandy Atlantic Coastal Plain soils is often unresponsive to applications of K fertilizer. As part of a field study on the response of irrigated, intensively managed corn to K applications, we characterized four representative Hapludults from the Delaware Coastal Plain and evaluated their K status. The soils were generally quite sandy with maximum clay contents of 11....

Properties of purified F1-ATPase from Escherichia coli mutant strain AN484 (uncD412) have been studied in an attempt to understand why the amino acid substitution in the beta-subunit of this enzyme causes a tenfold reduction from normal MgATP hydrolysis rate. In most properties that were studied, uncD412 F1-ATPase resembled normal E. coli F1-ATPase. Both enzymes were found to contain a total of...

Increasing urbanisation and industrialisation have led to a dramatic reduction in forest area, and now only culturally protected remnants of natural forests and some new plantations remain in most areas of the north of Iran. To investigate the status of the chemical and physical characteristics of soil under these remnant forests and assess the possible impacts of reforestation on soil properti...

We consider a random partition Π of N = {1, 2, . . .} such that, for each n, its restriction Πn to [n] = {1, . . . , n} is given by an exchangeable Gibbs partition with parameters α, V for α ∈ (−∞, 1] and V = (Vn,k) defined recursively by setting V1,1 = 1 and Vn,k = (n− αk)Vn+1,k + Vn+1,k+1 k ≤ n = 1, 2, . . . (Gnedin and Pitman 2006). By ranking the blocks Πn1, . . . , Πnk of Πn by their age-o...

A controlled greenhouse experiment was conducted to study the fraction, uptake and fixation of phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) in three soils with contrasting characteristics. The experiment was carried out in two phases, viz., sorghum-Sudangrass depletion and test crop experiment with maize with three levels of fertility status (depleted, original and fertilized with 40 mg kg-1 P and K) and t...

In evaluating the renal mechanisms responsible for the generation of the dysnatremias, an analysis of free water clearance (FWC) and electrolyte-free water clearance (EFWC) is often utilized to characterize the rate of urinary free water excretion in these disorders. Previous analyses of FWC and EFWC have failed to consider the relationship among plasma water Na(+) concentration ([Na(+)](pw)), ...

For an exchangeable sequence of random variables ðX nÞn2N taking values in a Polish space, we obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the large deviation principles with respect to the t-topology of the occupation measure Ln:1⁄4ð1=nÞ Pn 1 k1⁄40 dX k and of the process-level empirical measures. r 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.