presence and activity of denitrifiers. These factors have The effect of NO3--N diffusion on the order and rate of debeen studied bv several workers, for example, Bremner and nitrification reaction was studied in IS soils from various locations in Shaw (1958a, 1958b), Nommik (1956), Patrick (1960), the U.S. The soils were amended with 0.5% rice straw and incubated Broadbent and Clark (1965), and...

The bacterial communities in floodwater, from a rice-planted and an unplanted field were characterized at the beginning (flooding stage) and at the end (harvest stage) of the rice cropping cycle. Most probable number estimations and plate counts of aerobic and anaerobic heterotrophic bacteria and of several metabolic bacterial groups (methanogens, sulfate-reducers, anaerobic sulfur and nonsulfu...

A method for decontamination of animals involved in floodwater disasters

An adequate supply of pure water is absolutely essential to human existence. During floods, water is available in adequate quantity, but the quality is often not suitable for drinking or cooking purposes. The goal of the study was to develop an easier, cheaper and faster technique of water purification. Oxygen ions are well known for their high reactivity. An attempt has been made to use oxygen...

[1] The largest glacier outburst flood (jökulhlaup) ever recorded in Iceland occurred in 1996 and came from subglacial lake Grı́msvötn in Vatnajökull ice cap. Among other noteworthy features, this flood was characterized by an unprecedentedly high lake level prior to flood initiation, extremely rapid linear rise in lake discharge, delay between the onset of lake drainage and floodwater arrival a...

Introduction: Athabasca Vallis (Fig. 1) is the youngest known outflow channel on Mars, dated by crater counting at 2-8 Ma [1,2]. In-channel geomor-phic features indicative of flooding include streamlined forms, longitudinal lineations, and transverse dunes [1,2]. The streamlined forms have been hypothesized to be primarily depositional, i.e. composed of sediment deposited out of the floodwater ...

Flooding, already the largest hazard facing humankind, is becoming more frequent and affecting people. Adapting to flooding must consider than just water encapsulate effects of sediment movement, re-imagine through a sociogeomorphic lens expand approaches knowing about floods.

In this paper, the application and development of a highly integrated GPS receiver that employs reflected GPS signals for ground object detection and flood flow is described. Both righthand circular polarization (RHCP) and left-hand circular polarization (LHCP) antennas are employed so that the direct and reflected signals can be simultaneously obtained. The objective of this study is to use th...

Floodwater samples (N = 110) collected during the 2011 Bangkok floods were tested for Leptospira using culture and polymerase chain reaction (PCR); 65 samples were PCR-positive for putatively non-pathogenic Leptospira species, 1 sample contained a putatively pathogenic Leptospira, and 6 samples contained Leptospira clustering phylogenetically with the intermediate group. The low prevalence of p...