The main efforts and applications up to now are focused on the spatial variability analysis within a field. The spatial variability of soil properties within a field was evaluated using geostatistical analysis and the interpolation methods for mapping soil properties were compared in this paper. This experimentation was conducted in a wheat field of the trail farm in Shunyi County, Beijing. The...

Information about the distribution and abundance of the habitat-forming sessile organisms in marine ecosystems is of great importance for conservation and natural resource managers. Spatial interpolation methodologies can be useful to generate this information from in situ sampling points, especially in circumstances where remote sensing methodologies cannot be applied due to small-scale spatia...

INTRODUCTION Clinical practice guidelines recommend different levels of dietary protein intake in predialysis chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients. It is unknown how effectively these recommendations perform in a multi-ethnic Asian population, with varied cultural beliefs and diets. We assess the profi le of protein intake in a multi-ethnic Asian population, comparing healthy participants and ...

BACKGROUND Clinical practice guidelines recommend objective nutritional assessments in managing chronic kidney disease (CKD) patients but were developed while referencing to a North-American population. Specific recommendations for assessing muscle mass were suggested (mid-arm circumference, MAC; corrected mid-arm muscle area, cAMA; mid-arm muscle circumference, MAMC). This study aimed to asses...

In this study, a spatiotemporal estimation method based on Funk singular value decomposition (F-SVD) that considers the correlation of rainfall is proposed to improve estimations from gauge observations. Hourly data several flood events are selected verify by comparing with Inverse Distance Weighting (IDW) and Ordinary Kriging (OK) in Hanjiang basin, China. The results show (1) F-SVD has best p...

mouse embryo. In original 2D ISH sections (a), it is difficult to comprehend the distributions of Lhx8 (blue) and Shh (brown) genes relative to each other and to brain structures. After mapping, coregistered Lhx8 (orange) and Shh (green) expression data are overlaid on the iDW image (b), and inspected in 3D with brain structures e.g. ventricles (blue) to appreciate the spatial expression patter...

background: male infertility is affected by several factors. lead is one of the heavy metals more bioavailable than usually modifies the sperm quality in humans. objective: the aim of this study was to establish the role of lead in semen quality in environmentally exposed men. materials and methods: semen and blood samples were obtained from two groups: the exposed group (eg=20) and the non-exp...