Earthquakes that occur in buildings can lead to collision force with the next building if initial gap between two is not sufficient for its free vibration responses. Collisions cause amplification of internal forces structural elements and on contact zone usually considered design so it damage collapse buildings. This study aime determine effect Soil-Structure Interaction dilatation structures ...

Microbial ecologists have used direct RT-PCR amplification of 16S rRNA molecules for the detection of active species of bacteria and archaea, and 18S rRNA molecules for the detection of active fungi. The drawback to this approach for fungi is that 18S rRNA sequences often do not provide sufficient taxonomic resolution to allow identification of taxa in mixed communities to genus or species leve...

A differential detection method for three wheat viruses: Wheat yellow mosaic virus (WYMV), Japanese soil-borne mosaic virus (JSBWMV) and Chinese wheat mosaic virus (CWMV) using reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification (RT-LAMP) reaction was developed. All three primer sets, which were designed from the genome sequences of WYMV, JSBWMV and CWMV respectively, worked most effic...

Soil analysis is crucial for estimating the risk of crop damage by root-knot nematode Meloidogyne hapla. Here, we developed an assay based on Loop-mediated Isothermal Amplification (LAMP). The LAMP primers were verified specificity against 10 different species. A manual soil DNA extraction, referred to as SKMM, was and compared with a FastDNA kit followed purification. extracted both methods fr...

Dry root rot (DRR) caused by the fungus Rhizoctonia bataticola (Taub.) Butler, is an emerging disease in chickpea. The disease is often mistaken with other root rots like Fusarium wilt, collar rot and black root rot in chickpea. Therefore, its timely and specific detection is important. Current detection protocols are either based on mycological methods or on protocols involving DNA amplificati...

ABSTRACT We explore nonlinear site effects in the new Japanese ground-motion dataset compiled by Bahrampouri et al. (2020). Following approach of Seyhan and Stewart (2014), we evaluate decrease soil amplification according to increasing corresponding ground motion on surface rock (VS30=760 m/s). To better predict associated with each record, take into account between-event variability motion, i...

background: recently, we have shown that peroxisomal protein expression was induced upon retinoic acid treatment in mouse embryonic stem cells during the process of neurogenesis. thus, characterization of the respective promoter could elucidate the molecular aspects of transcriptional regulation of this gene. methods: using the conventional software programs for promoter prediction, a putative ...

Imidacloprid (1-[(6-chloro-3-pyridinyl)-methyl]-N-nitro-2-imidazolidinimine), a chloronicotinyl insecticide used to control biting and sucking insects, is very persistent in the soil with a half-life often greater than 100 days. Although a few soil metabolites have been reported in the literature, there are no reports of imidacloprid-degrading soil microorganisms. Our objectives were to discove...

The arsenic (As) drinking water crisis in south and south-east Asia has stimulated intense study of the microbial processes controlling the redox cycling of As in soil-water systems. Microbial oxidation of arsenite is a critical link in the global As cycle, and phylogenetically diverse arsenite-oxidizing microorganisms have been isolated from various aquatic and soil environments. However, desp...