Swine production facilities today are larger in size and are concentrated in smaller geographical areas than they were two decades ago. Additionally, there is an increasing trend to base manure land application rates on crop phosphorus requirements rather than crop nitrogen requirements alone. These factors have resulted in a need to find a feasible method for removing phosphorus from swine was...

Changes in human diets, population increases, farming practices, and globalized food chains have led to dramatic increases in the demand for phosphorus fertilizers. Long-term food security and water quality are, however, threatened by such increased phosphorus consumption, because the world's main source, phosphate rock, is an increasingly scarce resource. At the same time, losses of phosphorus...

BACKGROUND Dietary phosphorus intake is usually restricted in dialysis patients but the associations of dietary phosphorus intake with mortality in moderate chronic kidney disease (CKD) are unknown. Therefore, we examined these associations in National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III. METHODS Dietary phosphorus intake was estimated from 24-h dietary recalls administered by trained...

Nitrogen fixing legumes rely on phosphorus for nodule formation, nodule function and the energy costs of fixation. Phosphorus is however very limited in soils, especially in ancient sandstone-derived soils such as those in the Cape Floristic Region of South Africa. Plants growing in such areas have evolved the ability to tolerate phosphorus stress by eliciting an array of physiological and bioc...

Phosphorus (P), an essential element required for crop growth has no substitute. The global food security depends on phosphorus availability in soil for crop production. World phosphorus reserves are fast depleting and with an annual increase of 2.3% in phosphorus demand, the current reserves will be exhausted in coming 50-100 years. India and other Western countries are forced to import phosph...

BACKGROUND Elevated serum phosphorus is associated with all-cause mortality, but little is known about risk associated with dietary phosphorus intake. OBJECTIVE We investigated the association between phosphorus intake and mortality in a prospective cohort of healthy US adults (NHANES III; 1998-1994). DESIGN Study participants were 9686 nonpregnant adults aged 20-80 y without diabetes, canc...

purpose: to evaluate residual refractive errors after cataract surgery and its determinant factors at farabi eye hospital, tehran. methods: simple random sampling was done among cataract surgery scheduled patients over a 4 year period (2003-2006). exclusion criteria were uveitis, previous intraocular surgery and ocular trauma. after applying the exclusion criteria, 423 patients were studied. le...

background: induction chemotherapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia achieves complete remis sion in over 90% of children. it is apparent therefore that many patients in clinical remission and with out residual disease detectable by conventional light microscopy of peripheral blood or bone marrow films still harbor viable cells of the original disease mrd analysis does have a useful role to play...

Seven patients suffering from hyperthyroidism have been carefully studied. An analysis of their experimental data provides definite evidence in favour of an associated hyperparathyroidism being the direct cause of the excessive mobilization and excretion of calcium and phosphorus. Two patients suffering from hyperthyroidism with an associated hypoparathyroidism were studied. Both patients were ...

to survey the effects of chemical and biological phosphorus on the yield and essential oil of satureja hortensis l. as an important medicinal plant, factorial experiment was conducted based on randomized complete block design with three replicates at research station of faculty of agriculture, urmia university in 2011. the treatments were chemical phosphorus fertilizer with four levels (0, 50, ...