Very little is known about how products derived from the hydrothermal carbonization (HTC) of municipal waste affect availability and uptake nitrogen in plant nutrition. This study examined effects 60% sewage sludge 40% food HTC products, i.e., biochar (BC) process water (PW), as sources on garden cress growth quality. A fertilization program using four doses [(control), 9, 12, 15 kg da−1 N] BC,...

INTRODUCTION Ureteral access sheaths (UAS) facilitate flexible ureteroscopy in the treatment of urolithiasis. The physical properties of UAS vary by manufacturer and model. We compared three new UAS: Glideway (GW, Terumo, 11/13Fr, 12/14Fr), Pathway (PW, Terumo 12/14F) and Navigator HD (NHD, Boston Scientific, 11/13Fr, 12/14Fr) in the domains of safety characteristics, positioning characteristic...

The ventricles of the brain remain perhaps the largest anatomic structure in the human body without established primary purpose, even though their existence has been known at least since described by Aristotle. We hypothesize that the ventricles help match a stroke volume of arterial blood that arrives into the rigid cranium with an equivalent volume of ejected venous blood by spatially configu...

Background Contrast-enhanced H2O T1-weighted cardiovascular MRI is usually interpreted using tracer paradigms; e.g., the extra-/intravascular contrast agent (CA) partition coefficient. However, the signal molecule is water, not CA. Consequently, the myocardial extracellular volume fraction (ECV) is underestimated in proportion to its magnitude. Even more importantly, intercompartmental water ex...

Although Pilch-Warner (PW) gravitational renormalization group flow [1] passes a number of important consistency checks to be identified as a holographic dual to a largeN SU(N) N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theory, it fails to reproduce the free energy of the theory on S, computed with the localization techniques. This disagreement points to the existence of a larger dual gravitational consistent ...

Background: Swine is a very important commodity that contributed to the country’s food security by providing about 60% of total animal meat consumption Filipinos. Feeds comprise major expense in swine production and searching for possibly better cheaper alternatives urgent have high quality but economical feeding.Methods: The study aimed evaluate growth performance grower pigs (Sus scrofa domes...