field study was conducted at five villages of botswana namely, tsabong, tshane, mathathane, motlhabaneng and tsetsejwe during the periods of june to august 1999 and june to august 2000. the objective of the study was to assess and compare the soil physicochemical properties of soils at the five villages and to study the effect of cultivation on some soil physical properties. parameters measured...

BACKGROUND Assessing agreement in method comparison studies depends on two fundamentally important components; validity (the between method agreement) and reproducibility (the within method agreement). The Bland-Altman limits of agreement technique is one of the favoured approaches in medical literature for assessing between method validity. However, few researchers have adopted this approach f...

Let X=(X1,X2,…) be a sequence of random variables with values in standard space (S,B). Suppose X1∼νandP(Xn+1∈⋅∣X1,…,Xn)=θν(⋅)+ ∑i=1nK(Xi)(⋅) n+θa.s. where θ>0 is constant, ν probability measure on B, and K B. Then, X exchangeable whenever regular conditional distribution for given any sub-σ-field Under this assumption, enjoys all the main properties classical Dirichlet sequences, including Seth...

Comparative equilibration has been proposed as a methodological approach for determining the hydrogen isotopic composition (deltaD) of non-exchangeable hydrogen in complex organic materials, from feathers to blood and soils. This method depends on using homogenized standards that have been previously calibrated for their deltaD values of non-exchangeable H, that are compositionally similar to u...

field study was conducted at five villages of Botswana namely, Tsabong, Tshane, Mathathane, Motlhabaneng and Tsetsejwe during the periods of June to August 1999 and June to August 2000. The objective of the study was to assess and compare the soil physicochemical properties of soils at the five villages and to study the effect of cultivation on some soil physical properties. Parameters measured...

The inorganic fertilizer that is used excessively in tea plantations causes soil health degradation. Tea pruning residue and fluff are local biomass has the potential to be as alternatives nutrient input not well conducted plantation. This study evaluated biochar from of compost organic materials improve chemical properties plantations. were mixed Inceptisols a pot experiment with treatment com...

A MICROSCOPIC theory of the kaol ini te-water system is presented, based upon the assumption t ha t the clay-water interaction may be envisioned as par t ly hydrat ion of the exchangeable cations and par t ly adsorption by the oxygen and hydroxyl surfaces. The theory t reats exchangeable cation hydrat ion quantum-mechanically as an ion-dipole phenomenon and considers water adsorption by the min...