Yucheng City is located in northwestern Shandong Province, China, and is situated on the Huang-Huai-Hai Plain, the largest alluvial plain in China. In this study, 86 surface soil samples were collected in Yucheng City and analyzed for cation exchange capacity (CEC), soil organic matter (SOM), pH, available phosphorus (avail. P), phosphorus (P), aluminum (Al), and iron (Fe). These soils were als...

Heavy metal severely restricted the sludge agricultural use. Therefore, it is imperative to seek a novel and proficient method removal heavy from sludge. In this study, proposed that coupled with biodegradable chelating ligand iminodisuccinic acid electrolyte circulation technology, which was used enhance electrokinetic (EK) remediation removing Electrical current, electrical conductivity pH, t...

Metal ions, and magnesium in particular, are known to be involved in RNA folding by stabilizing secondary and tertiary structures, and, as cofactors, in RNA enzymatic activity. We have conducted a systematic crystallographic analysis of cation binding to the duplex form of the HIV-1 RNA dimerization initiation site for the subtype-A and -B natural sequences. Eleven ions (K+, Pb2+, Mn2+, Ba2+, C...

abstract in order to study the effects of salinity and silicon application on biomass of leaves and root of purslane (portulaca oleracea l.), a greenhouse experiment was conducted at research greenhouse of ferdowsi university of mashhad using completely randomized desgin with three replications. employed two factors consisted of three levels of salinity using nacl (0.6, 11, 22 ds/m) and two lev...

Transition metals such as Fe, Cu, Mn, and Zn are essential minerals for normal plant growth and development, although they can be toxic when present in excess. Thus, for healthy plant growth, a range of transition metals must be acquired from the soil, distributed around the plant, and their concentrations carefully regulated within different cells and organelles. Membrane transport systems are...

Heavy metals in soils are of great environmental concern, in order to determine heavy metal content in the surface soil from the vicinity of an abundant railway servicing workshop and evaluate the contamination levels, 40 surface soil samples were collected and analyzed for Cu, Zn, Cd, Pb, Fe and Ni contents using atomic absorption spectroscopy. Soil texture, conductivity, pH, total organic con...

This study determines the influence of the different soil components and of the cation-exchange capacity on the adsorption and retention of different heavy metals: cadmium, chromium, copper, nickel, lead and zinc. In order to do so, regression models were created through decision trees and the importance of soil components was assessed. Used variables were: humified organic matter, specific cat...

Driver support systems (DSS) of intelligent vehicles will predict potentially dangerous situations in heavy trac, help with navigation and vehicle guidance and interact with a human driver. Important information necessary for trac situation understanding is presented by road signs. A new kernel rule has been developed for road sign classi®cation using the Laplace probability density. Smoothin...

METAL CHALCOGENIDE NANOPARTICLE GEL NETWORKS: THEIRFROMATION MECHANISM AND APPLICATION FOR NOVEL MATERIALGENERATION AND HEAVY METAL REMEDIATION VIA CATIONEXCHANGE REACTIONSby IRINA R. PALAMay 2012Advisor: Dr. Stephanie L. BrockMajor: ChemistryDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyThe dissertation research is focused on (1) uncovering the mechanism of metalchalc...