Excessive N and water use in agriculture causes environmental degradation and can potentially jeopardize the sustainability of the system. A field study was conducted from 2000 to 2002 to study the effects of four N treatments (0, 100, 200, and 300 kg N ha(-1) per crop) on a wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) and maize (Zea mays L.) double cropping system under 70 +/- 15% field capacity in the North ...

Simultaneous preconcentration of phenol, 2-chlorophenol, 3-chlorophenol, 4-chlorophenol, 2-nitrophenol, 4-nitrophenol, and 2,4-dinitrophenol was improved by using olive wood (OW) washed with ethanol then pyrolyzed at 200°C as preconcentrating sorbent. Various OW sorbents were prepared by either washing OW (with ethanol, ether, dichloromethane, tetrahydrofuran or n-hexane); or by pyrolysis (at 1...

In this study, the effects of nitrogen fertilizer and plant growth regulator (ethephon) application on leaf chlorophyl, stem height and diameter, stalk yield, total sugar and bioethanol of sweet sorghum were determined. Four nitrogen treatments 0, 100, 200 and 300 Kg Urea ha-1 and four ethephon concentrations 0, 800, 1000, and 1200 ppm were applied on sweet sorghum in a split plot on randomized...

MM virus (mouse-brain stock) replicated to a limited extent in L cells without cytopathic effects; the average yield was less than 1 plaque-forming unit/cell. Passage in BHK-21 cells resulted in MM virus [MM(BHK)] which replicated to high titers (200 to 300 plaque-forming units/cell) in L cells with complete cytopathic effects. Appearance of mature MM(BHK) virus in L-cell cultures begins 4 hr a...

Most organic acidemias become clinically apparent during neonatal period or early infancy. Infants typically have severe metabolic acidosis with increased anion gap, ketosis and hyperammonemia. Extremely high ammonia levels exceeding 1000 μmol/L is a discriminative feature for urea cycle defect while levels exceeding 200-300 μmol/L are rarely encountered in other reasons of hyperammonemia. Leth...

The effects of salt stress (100, 200, 300 mmol/L) on physiological characteristics Solanum nigrum seedlings were studied by pot experiment. results showed that the contents chlorophyll a, b, carotenoids and total in S. leaves a trend first flattening then increasing with aggravation stress. With stress, net photosynthetic rate, stomatal conductance intercellular CO2 concentration decreased grad...

BACKGROUND Photodynamic therapy (PDT) with 5-aminolevulinic acid (5-ALA) is effective for the treatment of photoaging. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of PDT using a novel 0.5% liposome-encapsulated 5-ALA spray and an intense pulsed light (IPL) system (Ellipse Flex PPT) in reduction of periorbital and nasolabial wrinkles. PATIENTS AND METHODS Thirty healthy volunteers, aged 35...