Soil microbes play an important role in the biogeochemical cycling of nutrients and their availability to plants, which is for sustaining soil health agricultural sustainability. In light this, vesicular arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM) plays function. Hyphae VAM can reach far beyond plant root zone, allowing it obtain from a considerably larger region soil. Mycorrhiza improves nutrition by facilita...

In order to examine the differences in people suffering from depression (EG, N=18) compared healthy controls (CG1, N=24) and with diagnosed psychogenic voice disorder (CG2, N=9), nine acoustic features of were assessed among total 51 participants using MDVP software programme ("Kay Elemetrics" Corp., model 4300). Nine parameters analysed on basis sustained phonation vowel /a/. The results revea...

Abstract Composite materials provide many advantages over more conventional materials. However, their susceptibility to impact damage can question use in critical load-bearing structures, and efficient methods are needed for early detection. To this purpose, the nonlinear vibro-acoustic modulation (VAM) technique applies a low-frequency pump excitation high-frequency probe exploit onset of harm...

Title of Document: A COMPARISON OF DIFFERENT METHODS THAT DEAL WITH CONSTRUCT SHIFT IN VALUE ADDED MODELING: IS VERTICAL SCALING NECESSARY? Yong Luo, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013 Directed By: Professor Hong Jiao Department of Human Development and Quantitative Methodology Construct shift is a term used to describe the change of tests in the construct they intend to measure. In tests across multip...

Very sensitive structural health monitoring methods are needed to detect barely visible impact damage in composite materials. Based on extracting non-linear modulated components from the frequency response of damaged system, vibro-acoustic modulation (VAM) has shown be effective identifying presence at its early stage. A decisive role success this technique is played by choice high-frequency pr...

This research compared off-flavor notes and the relationship of pH and heme-iron content to off-flavor for different beef muscles. After grading, knuckles and shoulder clods were removed from 16 USDA Choice and 14 USDA Select beef carcasses, vacuum-packaged, and aged for 7 d. The rectus femoris (REC), vastus medalis (VAM), vastus lateralis (VAL), teres major (TER), infraspinatus (INF), and tric...