Eighty five 24 hour balance studies were performed on 70 healthy newborn infants of gestational age 27-40 weeks; dietary intake and stool losses of sodium were measured. There was a relation between gastrointestinal sodium absorption and conceptional age (the sum of gestational and postnatal age), whether expressed as absolute stool sodium losses or as the ratio of stool sodium to dietary sodiu...

In the irrigated western U.S. disposal of drainage water has become a significant economic and environmental liability. Development of irrigation water management practices that reduce drainage water volumes is essential. One strategy combines restricted drainage outflow (by plugging the drains) with deficit irrigation to maximize shallow groundwater consumption by crops, thus reducing drainage...

This paper proposes a microstrip patch antenna for 2.45 GHz Industrial Scientific Medical (ISM) band Wireless Body Area Network (WBAN) applications. To enhance the front-to-back ratio (F/B) and specific absorption rate (SAR), an electrically coupled LC resonator is introduced. The overall dimensions of the proposed antenna are 54 mm × 45 mm × 2.4 mm and it has a gain of over 1 dBi for the entir...

For sustainable agricultural production, besides drought, plant resistance to irrigation water and soil salinity should be investigated. Researchers mostly focused on drought of common species (wheat, barley, maize etc.). However, number studies chickpea with various uses is quite limited. In present study, 11 varieties were subjected germination tests under different electrical conductivity (E...

Septic tank effluent is inherently high in sodium ions relative to divalent cations (high sodium adsorption ratio). The disposal of septic tank effluent to the soil will cause the sodium ions to disperse the clay colloids, resulting in a physical blocking of the soil pores. Hydraulic conductivity will be reduced and the effluent will fail to dissipate into the soil profile. In designing the dis...

one of the main strategy for controlling salt-affected soils is to implement proper tillage method. a field experiments was conducted to determine the effect of different tillage methods on salt distribution and wheat yield in saline-sodic soil. the experiment was laid out according to randomized complete block design with three replications. treatments were studied in the experiment including ...