Desiccation of 8- to 13-day-old seedlings, achieved by withholding nutrient solution from the vermiculite root medium, caused a reduction in nitrate reductase activity of the leaf tissue. Activity declined when leaf water potentials decreased below -2 bars and was 25% of the control at a leaf water potential of -13 bars. Experiments were conducted to determine whether the decrease in nitrate re...

OBJECTIVE In order to utilize fat from broiler byproducts efficiently, it is necessary to develop an appropriate rendering procedure and establish quality information for the rendered fat. A study was therefore undertaken to evaluate the influence of rendering methods on the amounts and general properties of the fat recovered from broiler skin. METHODS The yield and quality of the broiler ski...

Relaxation time(s) (T1), growth rates, and the water content of six Morris hepatomas, several murine tumors, and a selection of normal tissues indicated that malignant tumors did not always exhibit longer T1 values than any normal tissue, as previously suspected. This overlap raised the possibility of confusion between normal and malignant tissues studied by this method. Tissue T1 values depend...

Quantitative mapping of water content, especially in the human brain, has the potential to provide important information for the study and diagnosis of diseases associated with a focal or global change in tissue water homeostasis. In the current work, an imaging method for the precise and accurate quantification of tissue water content is presented. The method allows the acquisition of water co...

Multibeam echosounder systems (MBES) can record backscatter strengths of gas plumes in the water column (WC) images that may be an indicator of possible occurrence of gas at certain depths. Manual or automatic detection is generally adopted in finding gas plumes, but frequently results in low efficiency and high false detection rates because of WC images that are polluted by noise. To improve t...

This work aims to explore WC-G201 high entropy cemented carbides properties fabricated by spark plasma sintering with AlCoCrFeNiTi0.2 and WC as binder phase hard respectively. powder were mixed at the mass ratio of 5: 95, 10: 90 15: 85 respectively, then via SPS 1300℃ for 5min. The results show that has good wettability WC, increase content, hardness alloy decreases gradually, fracture toughnes...

Changes in total water and electrolyte content were measured in corneas following cryopreservation and following experimental rehydration of the cryopreserved-thawed tissue in an albumin-NaCl solution, Kinsey medium, or in vivo in aqueous humor. During the cryopreservation procedure the corneal tissue becomes dehydrated and loses intracellular potassium and sodium. Experimental rehydration of t...