To investigate the effects of organic fertilizers and irrigation frequencies on yield and quality of cherry tomato an experiment was conducted using six fertilizer doses including control (no fertilizer), NPK fertilizer (urea at 300 kg, TSP 200 kg and MoP 250 kg), cow-dung at 5 t ha-1, cow-dung at 10 t ha-1, poultry manure at 5 t ha-1 and poultry manure at 10 t ha-1 with two levels of irrigatio...

An extensive number of metabolic experiments have been carried out at the former Oskar-Kellner-Institute, now the ›Oskar Kellner‹ Research Unit of Nutritional Physiology at the Research Institute for the Biology of Farm Animals (FBN), Dummerstorf, on cattle, pigs and humans. Their expired amounts of CO2 having been compiled and stratified with regard to various performance and nutrition levels....

This study aimed to reduce the holistic environmental impacts of insulation materials proposed for accommodation a marine cargo ship, and suggest optimal option cleaner ship production, using life cycle assessment. With commercial bulk carrier as case three major insulations were assessed, which wool-based material (mineral wool or glass wool), expanded polystyrene, polyurethane foam. The analy...

The effect of cultivar on sterol composition of tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) seed oil from three industrial cultivars (Principe Borghese, Rebelion F1 and San Marzano) grown in Calabria Region (Southern Italy) was investigated. Sterol composition is presented both as percentage on the total sterol content (%) and as an absolute value (mg/kg). Rebelion F1 produced the worst seed oil in terms ...

Environmental impacts of 15 European pig farming systems were evaluated in the European Union Q-PorkChains project using life cycle assessment. One conventional and two non-conventional systems were evaluated from each of the five countries: Denmark, The Netherlands, Spain, France and Germany. The data needed for calculations were obtained from surveys of 5 to 10 farms from each system. The sys...

As environmental concerns mostly drive the electrification of our economy and corresponding increase in demand for battery storage systems, information about potential impacts different systems is required. However, this kind scarce emerging post-lithium such as magnesium-sulfur (MgS) battery. Therefore, we use life cycle assessment following a cradle-to-gate perspective to quantify cumulative ...

Introduction. Aldehyde dehydrogenase-2 (ALDH-2) inhibitors have been shown to reduce cocaine and alcohol intake in rats. The mechanism of action appears to be due to inhibition of drug-induced dopamine (DA) production in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) and DA release in the nucleus accumbens. The purpose of this study was to explore the potential of a selective ALDH-2 inhibitor to reduce self-...

The amounts of three flavonoids, quercetin, kaempferol, and myricetin, in tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum L.) and tomato-based products produced in Turkey has been determined by reversed phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RPHPLC) with UV detection. The HPLC profiles of five types of tomato, one commercial composite tomato juice, and three types of tomato paste, were obtained after aci...