Abstract Purpose Soil water repellence causes uneven soil wetting which can constrain dryland crop and pasture establishment yield. The same processes are likely to affect nutrient availability from fertiliser, but the effects of on growth nutrition per se have seldom been reported. Here, we investigated early wheat ( Triticum aestivum cv. Mace) uptake responses repellence. Methods Wheat was fu...

Hemorrhoidal banding is an office procedure for the treatment of grade 1 to 3 internal hemorrhoids. It has been shown to be a safe and relatively effective way to treat minimally symptomatic hemorrhoids without a formal operation. Risks associated with hemorrhoidal banding have been well described and range from bleeding, urinary retention, recurrence and, rarely, sepsis or death. The overall r...

Hemorrhoidal banding is an office procedure for the treatment of grade 1 to 3 internal hemorrhoids. It has been shown to be a safe and relatively effective way to treat minimally symptomatic hemorrhoids without a formal operation. Risks associated with hemorrhoidal banding have been well described and range from bleeding, urinary retention, recurrence and, rarely, sepsis or death. The overall r...

In this paper, we present a scale-based slicer placement strategy aimed at decreasing the bandwidth blocking rate (BBR) in elastic optical networks (EONs). EONs adopt slicing-and-stitching technology to bypass requirement of consecutive spectrum slots on same link for single request. This is achieved through use slicers split requested band into multiple sub-spectrum components. However, unifor...

Dampers can reduce structural response under dynamic loads. Since dampers are costly, the design of structures equipped with dampers should make their application economically justifiable. Among the effective cost reduction factors is optimal damper placement. Hence, this study intended to find the optimal viscous damper placement using efficient optimization methods. Taking into account the no...

water content plays an important role in the process of plant photosynthesis and biomass accumulation. many methods have been developed to retrieve canopy leaf water content from remote sensing data. however, the validity of these methods has not been verified, which limits their applications. this study estimates the leaf water content (lwc) of winter wheat with three most widely used indexes:...

purpose: to evaluate the success rate of vitrectomy in giant retinal tears (gtr) and factors influencing it. methods: in an interventional case series, hospital records of 68 eyes of 63 patients operated for grt were reviewed. standard three port vitrectomy plus placement of an encircling band, retinopexy, and internal tamponade was performed for all eyes. possible influencing factors including...

in recent years, sub-band speech recognition has been found useful in addressing the need for robustness in speech recognition, especially for the speech contaminated by band-limited noise. in sub-band speech recognition, the full band speech is divided into several frequency sub-bands, with the result of the recognition task given by the combination of the sub-band feature vectors or their lik...

This paper presents the optimal modeling of Power Law Filters (PLFs) with low-pass (LP), high-pass (HP), band-pass (BP), and band-stop (BS) responses by means rational approximants. The optimization is performed for three different objective functions second-order filter mother functions. formulated design constraints help avoid placement zeros poles on right-half s-plane, thus, yielding stable...

In this article, a multi-objective function for placement of Distributed Generation (DG) and capacitors with thetap setting of Under Load Tap Changer (ULTC) Transformer is introduced. Most of the recent articles have paidless attention to DG, capacitor placement and ULTC effects in the distribution network simultaneously. Insimulations, a comparison between different modes was carried out with,...