Abstract For the realization of small-scale biomass-to-liquid (BTL) processes, low-cost syngas cleaning remains a major obstacle, and for this reason simplified gas ultracleaning process is being developed. In study, low- to medium-temperature final based on adsorption organic solvent-free scrubbing methods was coupled pilot-scale staged fixed-bed gasification facility including hot filtration ...

Abstract Assessing soil hydrological conditions can provide essential information for understanding the environmental processes that affect ecosystem services and, particularly in context of ongoing climate change. This is key areas affected by water scarcity such as Mediterranean belt. Therefore, main goals this research are (i) to assess rainfall dynamics and trends some representative hotspo...

The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model, coupled to a GIS, was applied to the Naivasha basin in Kenya, a closed basin experiencing diverse climatic conditions from semi arid to humid, comprises with the only fresh water lake in the grate rift valley. The intent of this study was to estimates the lake water level fluctuations by integrating the SWAT with a water balance model, estimating...

Molecular and pharmacological studies in vitro suggest that protein kinase C (PKC) family members play important roles in intracellular signal transduction. Nevertheless, the in vivo roles of PKC are poorly understood. We show here that nPKC-epsilon/eta TTX-4 in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is required for the regulation of signal transduction in various sensory neurons for temperature, ...

The terrestrial carbon cycle is one of the foci in global climate change research. Simulating net primary productivity (NPP) of terrestrial ecosystems is important for carbon cycle research. In this study, China's terrestrial NPP was simulated using the Boreal Ecosystem Productivity Simulator (BEPS), a carbon-water coupled process model based on remote sensing inputs. For these purposes, a nati...

Despite its more than three decades of existence, the limited success of the ICDS Scheme—India’s primary response to early childhood care and development, in achieving its key objectives of addressing child malnutrition, morbidity and mortality is still being debated among the policy makers, social researchers, academics and program managers. Evidence show that low levels of participation and u...

drought is a climatological hazard and is a part of the climate of a region. this climatological phenomenon has some properties that distinguish it from other natural disasters. drought is a gradual phenomenon and when the amount of moisture and precipitation become less than normal value in a certain period, its damages are non- structural in this condition and it is said that drought has occu...

The efficiency of Distributed Constraints satisfaction algorithms must be measured by concurrent performance measures. In Previous studies we have proposed the count of non concurrent logical steps as an asynchronous measure. This measure is independent of the specific implementation and is not affected by the level of concurrency of the performing algorithm. The method of counting non-concurre...

Continuous presentation of an olfactory stimulus causes a decrement of the chemotaxis response in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans. However, the differences between the learning process of habituation (a readily reversible decrease in behavioral response) and other types of olfactory plasticity such as adaptation (a decrement in response due to sensory fatigue, which cannot be dishabituated)...

Chemosensory neuron diversity in C. elegans arises from the action of transcription factors that specify different aspects of sensory neuron fate. In the AWB and AWA olfactory neurons, the LIM homeobox gene lim-4 and the nuclear hormone receptor gene odr-7 are required to confer AWB and AWA-specific characteristics respectively, and to repress an AWC olfactory neuron-like default fate. Here, we...