The world's population is growing and demand for food, feed, fiber, and fuel is increasing, placing greater demand on land and its resources for crop production. We review previously published estimates of global scale cropland availability, discuss the underlying assumptions that lead to differences between estimates, and illustrate the consequences of applying different estimates in model-bas...

In vitro the antibacterial activity of the Acetone, Methanol and Ethanol extracts of three marine algae from Ennore beach near Chennai (coast of Tamil Nadu) were tested. The test organism includes Gram negative bacteria such as Escherichia coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Gram positive bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, agar well diffusion test techniq...

Silicon micro-hole arrays (Si-MHA) were fabricated as a gas diffusion layer (GDL) in a micro fuel cell using the micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) fabrication technique. The resistance temperature detector (RTD) sensor was integrated with the GDL on a bipolar plate to measure the temperature inside the fuel cell. Experimental results demonstrate that temperature was generally linearly rel...

Persons of African ancestry living in the United States carry a disproportionate burden of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Compared with Americans of European ancestry, African Americans have an approximately fourfold greater life time risk of ESRD and, on average, require initiation of renal replacement therapy at a younger age. This group also has a unique risk of HIV-associated nephropathy (HI...