Abstract Background Soil samples were taken after 27 years from a long-term field experiment to study the effects of composted pure cattle farmyard manure (FYM) and two FYM treatments with biodynamic preparations on soil chemical microbiological properties. Methods organic carbon (SOC), total nitrogen, basal respiration, fungal ergosterol, microbial biomass C (MBC) nitrogen (MBN) analyzed in 6-...

We conducted four experiments to examine developmental differences in preferences for using color, size, and location information to disambiguate hiding places. Threeand 4-year-olds and adults described how to find a miniature mouse that was hidden in one of two highly similar small objects in a dollhouse. In Experiment 1, the hiding places could be disambiguated by either color or location. Th...

The vast majority of plant biodiversity associated with temperate forests is harboured by the understorey layer. This layer also plays crucial roles in ecosystem functions such as tree regeneration, nutrient cycling and carbon dynamics. Research using space-for-time substitutions resurveys vegetation plots has shown that climate warming, changes forest management resource availability are key d...

Two-year-olds' (N = 153) knowledge of solidity was tested in four search tasks adapted from infant looking-time experiments. In Experiment 1, 2-year-olds failed to search in the correct location for a falling ball after a hidden shelf that blocked its trajectory had been inserted in the apparatus. Experiment 2 extended this finding by showing that 2-year-olds failed to take into account the eff...

abstract an investigation was accomplished during 2007 and 2008 to test effect of hormonal treatment and cutting position on rooting of sebri , shekari and natanz cultivars of pear (pyrus pyrifolia.) the experimental design was a two way factorial in a completely randomized method and with pgr5 treatment (iba and iba with naa in four levels in the first year and four higher levels of iba in sec...

Budding is a good method of propagation in the Persian walnut (Juglans regia L.)., However, success of budding is low due to higher root pressure as well as the presence of phenolic compounds in the xylem sap. This study was conducted to compare various budding methods and cut below budding union on two and three-year-old Persian walnut under field conditions. The experiment was conducted based...

Mobile sinks can significantly extend the lifetime of a sensor network by eliminating the need for expensive hopby-hop routing. However, a sensor node might not always have a mobile sink in transmission range, or the mobile sink might be so far that the data transmission would be very expensive. In the latter case, the sensor node needs to make a decision whether it should send the data now, or...