the aim of this paper is to study the popular models used for the simulation of major elements of a water quality system. the present study compares results of the ce-qual-w2 model with the wasp5 and mike11 models to assess the water quality of pasikhan river. the contaminant loadings of nitrate and phosphate are utilized in the ce-qual-w2, wasp5 and mike11 simulations. this study is the first ...

abstract due to limited water resources in agriculture, application of each strategy to economize water use and increase area under cultivation is very important. one such strategy is deficit irrigation. for optimal planning of deficit irrigation, it is necessary to determine different sensitive stages of plant water shortages. in this study the effect of deficit irrigation on growth and yield ...

This paper explores the use of the Vogel Approximation Method to determine the best suitable Fluence energy that can produce a mild steel weld of acceptable Ultimate Tensile Strength (UTS). Although this model is most often utilised for optimizing facility location problems, in this study it is uniquely adapted to accurately determine and predict acceptable mild steel fluence energy weld parame...

We studied water use by Eucalyptus tereticornis Sm. in two plantations, differing in tree density (1800 stems ha(-1) at Site I and 1090 stems ha(-1) at Site II), in different years. At both sites, stomatal conductance, predawn and midday water potentials and microclimate were measured and used to estimate hourly transpiration by the Penman-Monteith equation. Growth in girth was also measured. S...

Critical growth stage of cotton crop was investigated by artificially imposing water stress under field conditions. The crop was given water deficit stress for a period of 30 days at squaring (SS) and first boll split (BS) phases by maintaining the leaf water potential (yw) at –2.2+0.2 MPa whereas in control plots yw was maintained at -1.6+ 0.2 MPa by irrigation scheduling. The average irrigati...

water is the most limiting factor in irrigated agriculture, mainly in mediterranean environments, as in the case of southwest spain. in this area, almond is one of the most valuable crops due to its high drought tolerance. this work examines the crop coefficients (kc) based on four drainage lysimeters installed in an experimental young almond orchard. complementary, two deficit-irrigation treat...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the pharmacokinetic variations of mycophenolic acid (MPA), the active metabolite of mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), in both pediatric and adult patients following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). Twenty pediatric patients with a median age of 3 years (range 0.2-12 years) and 13 adult patients with a median age of 54 years (range 18-63 years) wer...

Multiple emulsions (W1/O/W2) with a long-term stability of at least 12 months were prepared in order to encapsulate low molecular weight bioactive substances (Mr < 2000 g/mol). The influence of the emulsifying procedure, i.e. the variation in energy input for dispersing W1/O in W2, and the influence of the emulsion composition were investigated in relation to emulsion stability and encapsulatio...

This study aimed to estimate the combining ability, of T. cacao genotypes preselected for drought tolerance through diallel crosses. The experiment was conducted under greenhouse conditions at the Cacao Research Center (CEPEC), Ilhéus, Bahia, Brazil, in a completely randomized block design, in an experimental arrangement 21 x 2 [21 complete diallel crosses and two water regimes (control and str...

Winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) grows in dry season but summer maize (Zea mays L.) coincides with rainfall in the North China Plain (NCP). Increasing rainfall use efficiency and harmonizing its utilization between the two species is an effective way to mitigate impact on groundwater deriving from wheat irrigation. One to four times water supply (W1, to W4) were employed in wheat, three wate...