Especially over the last 100 years, our unbridled exploitation of the world’s natural resources has severely damaged its vegetation and has also resulted in worrying accumulations of in‐ dustrial wastes and greenhouse gases. Together, these have upset natural ecosystem balances and have created many environment and climatic problems, including rising temperatures, in‐ creasing desertification, ...

heat or toasting were not so well utilized for growth and did not allow such favorable nitrogen balances as did the raw cereal and casein. Since the digestibility of the toasted pro teins was but little different from that of the raw, the dif ference in the value of the two could not be attributed to this source and so must have been due to the detrimental action of the heat on metabolic availa...

Coulomb cluster of dust particles in an RF helium plasma under cryogenic environment is observed experimentally. Background neutral temperature is controlled by cryogenic liquid such as liquid helium or liquid nitrogen. Dust dynamics in a sheath is studied. A dust injected into a sheath moves toward an equilibrium position where the sheath electric force balances with the gravitational force. D...

Objectives: (State the relevant objectives of the project; 75 words or less.) This study was designed to contribute to a better understanding of the fate of chloramines in distribution systems. The project objectives were to: 1) characterize the influence of water quality parameters on chloramine decomposition rates; 2) evaluate and compare chloramine decomposition rates in distributions system...

From an experimental and theoretical investigation of the continuity of wastewater organic chemical oxygen demand (COD) and nitrogen (N) compounds along the link connecting the primary settling tank (PST) and anaerobic digester (AD), it was found that the primary sludge (PS) characteristics, viz. the biodegradable and unbiodegradable soluble and particulate COD and N component concentrations, n...

Reports describing trials of exchange resins in removing cations from the gastrointestinal tract of experimental animals have been limited to toxicity studies and to measurements of the relative magnitudes of the oral intake and the stool output (1-3). In the experiments presented in this paper changes in serum, urine, and stool components, as well as the external and internal balances of certa...

Although ecologists believe that vertebrate herbivores must select a diet that allows them to meet their nutritional requirements, while avoiding intoxication by plant secondary metabolites, this is remarkably difficult to show. A long series of field and laboratory experiments means that we have a good understanding of the factors that affect feeding by leaf-eating marsupials. This knowledge a...

A single ecosystem dominates the Midwestern United States, occupying 26 million hectares in five states alone: the corn-soybean agroecosystem [Zea mays L.-Glycine max (L.) Merr.]. Nitrogen (N) fertilization could influence the soil carbon (C) balance in this system because the corn phase is fertilized in 97-100% of farms, at an average rate of 135 kg N x ha(-1) x yr(-1). We evaluated the impact...