Albino rats maintained for 50 to 60 days on rations containing cholesterol, sodium cholate, and thiouracil were found to be highly susceptible to the lethal effects of infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Maximum loss of resistance occurred only when all three components were present in a single ration. A lesser degree of susceptibility resulted from the deletion of one or more of the fac...

     It is widely known that the development of gullies causes the loss of a great amount of soil and can be considered as one of the principal causes of geo-environmental degradation. The study area of the present research is located in the eastern shores of Urmia Lake. This study sought to evaluate the rate of growth and effective factors on the area’s gully dynamic over a year. To achieve th...

Insufficient water is the greatest limitation to crop production and choice of crops grown in the Northern Great Plains. Supplemental irrigation can overcome this limitation. Uncertainties about the drainage capacity of flne-textured subsoils and the effect of irrigation on soil properties has impeded irrigation development. In this study we quantified salinity changes in soils with fine-textur...

Adsorption and desorption of sulfamethoxazole (SMX) at water-sediment interfaces from Taihu Lake, China, were investigated in this study. The effects of a cationic surfactant, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), and an anionic surfactant, sodium dodecylbenzene sulfonate (SDBS), on the adsorption/desorption processes were also studied. Results show that adsorption and desorption could be well...

Water scarcity in the hill tract districts of Bangladesh becomes acute dry season as most streams, primary source water, up. However, groundwater, where available, can supply water throughout year. In this study, a total 37 samples were collected and analyzed from shallow (34) deep (3) wells Khagrachhari Sadar to assess their geochemical type suitability for drinking using multiparameter ground...

A compost program was developed on-farm, utilizing tree trimming biomass from a commercial pecan farm comprised of 14-year-old improved cultivar Western Schley (Carya illinoinensis) stands. The direct soil application shredded (P) and dairy manure (M) served as standard on-farm practice. Three composts were produced using P M with varying levels other inputs processing. PM contained only its pr...

The addition of phenethyl alcohol (PEA) to cultures of male strains of Escherichia coli rapidly prevents the adsorption of the male-specific bacteriophages f1 and f2 to the donor cells. The adsorption of f2 to F pili in cell-free preparations is unaffected by PEA. In a mating system, PEA alters the kinetics of gene transfer in minimal medium but not in broth. Sodium cyanide, azide, and iodoacet...

the purpose of this study is comparison of manganese absorption capacity by natural and modified zeolite. for this purpose used by from semnan mines zeolite with mean particle diameter of 360 micrometer. for modified zeolite, 5 g amount of natural zeolite with 100 ml of 1 m sodium chloride solution mixed and maintained at 24 hours in room temperature. for measure specific surface of absorbents,...

We carried out the purification of C-phycocyanin and allophycocyanin from Spirulina platensis taking advantage of the adsorption properties of the expanded beds. Initially, phycobiliproteins were released from the microalga cells by osmotic shock. Next, phycocyanins were recovered by applying the centrifuged cell suspension directly to the anion exchanger Streamline-DEAE using expanded bed colu...

We report on the adsorption of sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS) onto functionalized graphene sheets (FGSs) in an aqueous system, measured at broad SDS and FGS concentration ranges by conductometric surfactant titration. At dilute SDS concentrations (<12 μM in bulk solution), there is evidence of a counterion exchange between hydronium ions (from the dissociation of acidic chemical functionalities o...