In order to properly determine the value of charring crop residues, the C use efficiency and effects on crop performance of biochar needs to be compared to the un-charred crop residues. In this study we compared the addition of corn stalks to soil, with equivalent additions of charred (300 °C and 500 °C) corn residues. Two experiments were conducted: a long term laboratory mineralization, and a...

This study analysed the number of patients admitted with diphtheria to a teaching hospital in the state of Assam in India over a period of five years and compared the disease characteristics and management with outcomes and incidences of diphtheria reported in the literature. It was a retrospective analysis of data elicited from clinical records of patients admitted to hospital. A total of 101 ...

ABSTRACT Direct accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) dating is crucial for a correct integration of plant remains in the (pre)history crops, particularly those that do not belong to Neolithic package and are known arrive Europe much later. This paper reviews one earliest records rye from Romania. The grains were discovered tell settlement Cunești, which belongs Gumelnița communities (ca. 4600–39...

This article focuses on the activism of Walterton and Elgin Action Group (WEAG) who successfully campaigned against attempts by UK Conservative government in 1980's to sell off their council homes private tenders. Focusing inventive creative actions, composition group not usually associated with militancy, takes formation WEAG as an example affective politics cultivation a housing commons-throu...

Well exposed Famennian, mainly carbonate rocks of the Bahram Formation in the vicinity of Bagher Abad village, Central Iran,yielded chondrichthyan teeth some sarcopterygii and actinopterygii teeth and fragments. Three different genera were recognizedamong the chondrichthyan teeth represented by: Phoebodus turnerae, Ph. spp., Deihim mansureae (M2, M3), Stethacanthus sp..Acanthodian and sarcopter...

Urinary infection is frequently due to or accompanied by the deposit of calculi, and in these circumstances it is notoriously difficult to treat the infection satisfactorily so long as the foreign body remains. Rarely a foreign body introduced into the bladder per urethram is found to be the cause of chronic pyuria. Still more rarely-as in the case here recorded-a foreign body may ulcerate thro...

the archaeologists who have investigated ziwiyeh have presented different views about the constructors of material culture and its artistic styles. the majority of them, relying on one single object and analyzing its inscription and comparison with similar cases of adjacent cultures and sites, have attributed the origin of materials and artistic styles with respective region, and on the basis o...