The Grain to Green Project (GGP) is an unprecedented land restoration action in China. The project converted large areas (ca 10 million ha) of steep-sloped/degraded farmland and barren land into forest and grassland resulting in ecological benefits such as a reduction in severe soil erosion. It may also affect soil microorganisms involved in ammonia oxidization, which is a key step in the globa...

Since the introduction of the mosquito-borne West Nile Vims (WNV) into New York City (NYC) in 1999, it has expanded westward across the North American continent in an unprecedented fashion, taking in its wake hundreds of thousands and possibly millions of native and exotic birds. C o ~ d species, particularly the American crow, are particularly susceptible to this virulent smin of virus and hav...

A great deal of scholarship has gone into examining monophthongization as a phonological phenomenon occurring within the different chronological stages languages. Some studies have examined it sociolinguistic index dialectal variation while some others studied purely idiosyncratic matter same language variety. Almost all these been descriptive in nature. This study used derivational phonology a...

Safe drinking water is ahealth necessity. This study was for comparing between certain physico-chemical and microbial parameters of two treatment plants (Shebin El-kom conventional plant Shobrabass compact plant) during a period from February 2019 to December 2019. The treated at these had remarkable enhancement as compared with raw one basically the values TDS, conductivity, total alkalinity, ...

Poa botryoides (Trin. ex Griseb.) Kom. is a predominantly Siberian mountain-steppe species, occupying an intermediate position between P stepposa (Kryl.) Roshev. and attenuata Trin., from which it poorly isolated morphologically. A digital map of distribution was compiled, based on 143 localities, revealed herbarium materials reliable literary sources; the ecologo-climatic niche this species co...