Elevated concentrations of reactive nitrogen (N) in precipitation have been reported for many cities in China. Due to increased use of fossil fuels and expansion in agriculture, further increases in deposition of ammonia (NHx) and reactive N oxides (NOy) are predicted. Increased deposition of reactive N is likely to affect N dynamics and N runoff in forest ecosystems. Yet, in China little work ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The pollination drop is a liquid secretion produced by the ovule and exposed outside the micropyle. In many gymnosperms, pollen lands on the surface of the pollination drop, rehydrates and enters the ovule as the drop retracts. The objective of this work was to study the formation of the pollination drop in Juniperus communis, its carbohydrate composition and the response to...

in order to study the effect of organic fertilizers application on increasing nitrogen efficiency and also quantitative and qualitative characteristics of sugar beet, a series of experiments were performed for two years (2008 and 2009) using three amino acid containing organic fertilizers at motahari research station of sugar beet seed institute (sbsi), karaj, iran. four rates of organic fertil...

Net photosynthetic rate, CO(2) compensation concentration, and starch and soluble sugar concentrations were measured in soybean (Glycine max [L.] Merrill) leaves in an attempt to evaluate the effect of carbohydrate concentration on rate of CO(2) assimilation.Plants were grown in a controlled environment room at 23.5 C, 50% relative humidity, 16-hour photoperiod, and quantum flux (400-700 nm) of...

Roll rates and net flow can be seen as the evolution of ageing accounts receivable Markov chains. They are accepted methodologies to model behavior non-performing consumer loans by buckets predict losses, but we find that quite often they wrongly used interchangeable concepts, although roll track individual across in consecutive months just compare months. We determine their matrices transition...

[1] The fluxes and pools of total mercury (THg) and methyl mercury (MeHg) were evaluated for two northern temperate forest wetlands: an abandoned beaver meadow and a riparian wetland. Mass balance calculations reveal that the wetlands are net sources of THg and MeHg, although, the magnitude of the source is a function of wetland connectivity to stream water. The volatilization rate of elemental...

Nanocrystalline cadmium sulfide thin films as antireflection materials for solar cells have been prepared by a new chemical solution deposition route in an aqueous medium at 50 °C. as-deposited thin films were studied using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM), and optical absorption spectra. X-ray diffraction data indicated the formation of hexagonal na...

This paper gives an overview of the research activities at TEXTOR on impurity production, impurity transport through the plasma, and then deposition. First, laboratory experiments on chemical erosion by hydrogen and oxygen and radiation-enhanced sublimation are described, followed by the main part, which concentrates on the TEXTOR data of impurity release, impurity transport, and redeposition. ...

The maintenance of low availability of mineral N in heath soils is thought to be a key factor for the stability of heathland ecosystems. We investigated the turnover of NH4 ‡ and NO3 ÿ in the organic surface layer of soils from a Danish heathland using N isotope techniques in laboratory incubations. The soils were sampled under intact and dead Calluna vegetation. The dead Calluna vegetation had...