Excessive soluble P in runoff is a common cause of eutrophication in fresh waters. Evidence indicates that drinking water treatment residuals (WTRs) can reduce soluble P concentrations in P-impacted soils in the short term (days to weeks). The long-term (years) stability of WTR-immobilized P has been inferred, but validating field data are scarce. This research was undertaken at two Michigan fi...

An in vitro experiment was conducted to evaluate the effect of different dietary minerals on phytate hydrolysis by microbial phytase enzyme and to measure the residual phytate content after phytate digestion. Calcium (0, 6, 8, 10 g kg of diet), Fe (0, 70, 80, 90 mg kg of diet), Zn (0, 30, 40, 50 mg kg of diet) or Na (0, 1.5, 2.5 and 3.5 g kg of diet) were incubated with a Na-phytate solution, w...

We investigate the problem of finding confidence sets for split points in decision trees (CART). Our main results establish the asymptotic distribution of the least squares estimators and some associated residual sum of squares statistics in a binary decision tree approximation to a smooth regression curve. Cube-root asymptotics with nonnormal limit distributions are involved. We study various ...

according to environmental protection organization of iran, maximum permissible concentration of residual phosphorus in treated municipal wastewater is 1 mg /l-p. the total average phosphorus concentration in raw municipal wastewater is about 8 mg / l; about 70 percent of the incoming phosphorus normally is discharged with secondary treatment plant effluents. in this research, the role of addin...

We investigated two approaches for large-scale analysis and prediction of the spatial distribution of soil properties in an agricultural landscape in the Canadian prairies. The first approach was based on the implementation of nine types of digital terrain models (DTMs) and regression analysis of soil and topographic data. The second approach used a concept of accumulation, transit, and dissipa...

The distribution of phosphorus compounds in various leaf components has been examined in some detail, particularly for tobacco, where interest has centered in part on the study of nucleic acids, especially in relation to virus infection (2-7). The method adopted for determining phosphorus distribution in the present study was based on the procedure of Ogur and Rosen (8), and on the results of o...