Atmospheric deposition is an important pathway for moisture, nutrient, and pollutant exchange among the atmosphere, forest, and soils. Previous work has shown the importance of proximity to the forest edge to chemical fluxes in throughfall, but far less research has considered stemflow. This study examined the difference in acid neutralization capacity (ANC) of stemflow of nineteen Liriodendron...

[1] Weathering of olivine basalt by H2SO4-HCl aqueous solutions at the conditions of early Mars was investigated through numerical modeling in a system open with respect to CO2 and O2 only. The model includes dissolution rates of primary and secondary minerals and oxidation rate of aqueous Fe, as well as chemical equilibration among solutes, dissolved gases, and precipitates. The results reveal...

Objectives : Drug induced-phospholipidosis is a pathological state caused by repeated administration of cationic amphiphilic drugs. The mechanism of drug-induced phospholipidosis is unclear. Several hypotheses have been proposed, such as inhibition of phospholipase, upregulated phospholipid synthesis, increased uptake of phospholipids, and inhibition of intracellular phospholipid traffic. Among...

Altogether 562 sheep and goat blood serum samples were collected from livestock located in Konya, Burdur, and their environs in Turkey. The samples were tested for bluetongue virus antibodies by ELISA and serum neutralization test (SNT). Fifty-four (17.1%) out of 315 sheep serum samples from Konya and 1 (1.5%) out of 66 sheep serum samples from Burdur were detected as seropositive. Seventy-thre...

The decolourization ofmelanoidins was studied with a batch electrocoagulation (EC) process using aluminium electrodes. The effects of conductivity (K = 500-3000 microS/cm), initial pHi (4.2-8.2), current density (j = 2.5-7.5 A/m2), initial melanoidin concentration (C0 = 100-800 mg/L) and operating time (tEC = 0-60 min) were investigated on the decolourization efficiency. The results obtained fr...

This study demonstrates sulfite pretreatment to overcome recalcitrance of lignocellulose (SPORL) for robust bioconversion of hardwoods. With only about 4% sodium bisulfite charge on aspen and 30-min pretreatment at temperature 180 degrees C, SPORL can achieve near-complete cellulose conversion to glucose in a wide range of pretreatment liquor of pH 2.0-4.5 in only about 10 h enzymatic hydrolysi...

A novel pH-responsive superabsorbent hydrogel based on gelatin was prepared through crosslinking copolymerization of poly (acrylic acid) and poly (itaconic acid). The copolymerization conditions including monomers, initiator, gelatin and crosslinker concentration, reaction temperature, and neutralization percent were systematically optimized to achieve a hydrogel with swelling capacity as high ...

Critical conditions for coacervation of poly(dimethyldiallylammonium chloride) (PDADMAC) with bovine serum albumin were determined as a function of ionic strength, pH, and protein/polyelectrolyte stoichiometry. The resultant phase boundaries, clearly defined with this narrow molecular weight distribution PDADMAC sample, showed nonmonotonic ionic strength dependence, with the pH-induced onset of...

It is very important to monitor pH values. In this paper, we fabricated an all-solid-state AlGaN/GaN-based ion-sensitive heterostructure field effect transistor (ISHFET) sensor microprobe. The microprobe could facilitate measurement of was by packaging the chip into a 21 G medical needle. performance integrated evaluated in range 4–9.18. A sensitivity 143.57 µA/pH can be achieved using with wid...