T WAS inevitable that Congress's deregulatory right hand would eventually challenge what its left hand had been doing for years to the health-care industry-gradually tightening the government's regulatory grip. The first evidence of the challenge was a series of amendments, adopted last October, to the National Health Planning and Resources Development Act of 1974. These amendments significantl...

The quantification of nitrogen (N) supplying capacity of organic amendments applied to a soil is of immense importance to examine synchronization, N release capacity, and fertilizer values of these added materials. The aims of the present study was to determine the potential N mineralization and subsequent nitrification of separate and combined use of poultry manure (PM), wheat straw residues (...

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SUMMARY: The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is adopting general requirements pertaining to: (1) The use of health claims that characterize the relationship of a substance to a disease or health related condition on the labels and in labeling of foods in conventional food form (conventional foods), and (2) the content of petitions regarding the use of such health, claims pertaining to specif...

The authors wish to add the following amendments and corrections to their paper published in IJERPH [1].

a greenhouse experiment was conducted during the growing seasons (2008/2009 and 2009/2010) to investigate the effects of water quality and soil amendments, irrigation methods and rates on tomato (solanum lycopersicon l. cv. red gold) yield and water use efficiency (wue). irrigation management treatments were fresh (0.86 ds m-1) and saline waters (3.6 ds m-1), surface and subsurface irrigation m...

We would like to express our heartfelt gratitude to all reviewers /editors of this manuscript for their constructive comments which are extremely helpful to improve this manuscript. Here are point-by-point responses for reviewers of this manuscript. We have tried to provide a detailed response to each reviewer and describe the amendments that have been made to the manuscript text. The exact pla...