To assess the effect of non chemical management of weed control on forage Sorghum (Sorghum bicolor) a field study was conducted in Varamin, Iran during 2010 crop year in a three- replicated- split factorial experiment laid out in randomized complete block design with four weeding levels (W1= one time cultivation at 3-leaf stage using a duck foot cultivator, W2<...

Crop management practices (tillage, residue management, fertilization, etc.) define the soil environment to which crops are exposed and through these environmental conditions control crop growth. The purpose of this paper is to report the response of winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) to long-term (10 years) application of fallow tillage practices (plow, sub-till, and no-till) and N fertilizat...

A detailed understanding of the chemical stability metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in water and acidic basic solutions currently exists; however, there has been comparatively little investigation into MOFs presence acid gas species that may be present industrial settings. MIL-101(Cr), a MOF is stable liquid as well solutions, was tested for its upon exposure to gases sulfur dioxide (SO2) nitrog...

Surface water samples of baseflow were collected from 20 headwater sub-watersheds which were classified into three types of watersheds (natural, urban and agricultural) in the flood, dry and transition seasons during three consecutive years (2010-2012) within a coastal watershed of Southeast China. Integrating spatial statistics with multivariate statistical techniques, river water quality vari...

Results of flow visualization experiments are presented to clearly identify the trigger mechanism for critical heat flux (CHF) in flow boiling. It is shown that discrete bubbles which form following the onset of nucleation coalesce into a wavy vapor layer at fluxes well below CHF. Depressions in the layer interface were observed to touch the heater surface periodically, painting a thin liquid s...

Surface coating is an effective concept to protect layered cathode active materials (CAMs) in lithium ion batteries from detrimental side reactions. Dry powder a fast and cost-effective process, here we transfer this approach Al2O3 nanostructured fumed TiO2 ZrO2 coatings on the same NMC (Li[Ni,Mn,Co]O2) material. Using similar processing, allows direct comparison of characteristics achieved lay...

Humidograms of mixed NaCl/(NH4)2SO4 particles show two or three transitions depending on the initial molar composition. Up to five solid salts can coexist within dry particles: NaCl, (NH4)2SO4, NH4Cl, Na2SO4 and NH4NaSO4·2H2O.

A recent application of a simple, all-dry, abrasive transfer 2D materials on paper demonstrates the potential two-dimensional tungsten disulfide (WS2) as sensitive material flexible photoconductive detector. The devices show really good responsivity over bandwidth spanning from near infrared to ultraviolet and could open new avenues towards disposable optoelectronics systems.

Culturable methanotrophic bacteria (CMB) were studied in the soils of forest and savanna of tropical dry deciduous forest ecosystems employing most probable number (MPN) technique. The spatiotemporal study was conducted at the six sites differing in the soil physicochemical properties and vegetational cover. CMB population was high in the moist sites compared to the dry sites and in sub soil be...