Potato starch is characterized by discernibly high content of starch-bound phosphate monoester groups, and metal cations are attached to the groups ion forces. A level divalent appears lead good viscosity stability potato ionically cross-linking esters. However, starches manufactured in factories Hokkaido, northernmost island Japan, do not show due potassium low cation content. To overcome this...

An online audio classiication and segmentation system is presented in this research, where audio recordings are classiied and segmented into speech, music, several types of environmental sounds and silence based on audio content analysis. This is the rst step of our continuing work towards a general content-based audio classiication and retrieval system. The extracted audio features include tem...

To avoid increasing costs of landfill disposal, it has become increasingly important for U.S. foundries to identify beneficial reuses for the 8 to 12 million tons of waste foundry sand (WFS) generated annually. A major drawback to the reuse of some WFSs as a soil amendment is their high soil strength, under dry conditions, where root growth may be limited. Fifteen WFSs were analyzed for strengt...

The initial response of plants to aluminum (Al) is the inhibition of root elongation, while the transition zone is the most Al sensitive zone in the root apex, which may sense the presence of Al and regulate the responses of root to Al toxicity. In the present study, the effect of Al treatment (30 μM, 24 h) on root growth, Al accumulation, and properties of cell wall of two pea (Pisum sativum L...

understanding the relationship between root yield and other traits in sugar beet may be a crucial step towards successful breeding of this important crop. path analysis provides a useful method in analyzing the genetic and phenotypic coefficients of correlations. this method is able to effectively unveil direct and indirect effects among traits of interest. in this research, root yield, yield c...

Sodium stimulated ATPase activity in the nuclei of the meristematic cells, while potassium stimulated it in the mycorrhizae between root cap cells. The detection of these 2 mutually exclusive cation-stimulated ATPases, which both require magnesium-ATP in equivalents, which have a similar optimum pH of about 5.5, and which are located in entirely different parts of the root tip, suggests that pa...

The percentage compositions of soil herbivorous, bacterivorous and fungivorous nematodes in forests, grasslands and scrubs in Romania was analysed. Percentages of nematode abundance, biomass and metabolic footprint methods were used to evaluate the patterns and relative size of herbivory, bacterial- and fungal-mediated channels in organic and mineral soil horizons. Patterns and magnitudes of he...

Single phase Mn0.8Zn0.2Fe2O4 powders were synthesized by solution combustion method. The solution combustion method relies on the exothermic self-sustained reactions in reactive solution containing of oxidizers and organic fuels. In this work, the effects of various amounts of glycine as fuel on the powder characteristics were investigated. The structure, cation distribution, microstructure, ma...

Effects of de®ciencies in N, P, K, Ca, Mg, B and Fe on leaf development, visual symptoms and shoot±root dry weight ratio were studied in Spathiphyllum `Sensation' grown hydroponically. Leaf nutrient contents of treated plants were analyzed to con®rm suspected de®ciencies. Leaf number, leaf area and chlorophyll content were all signi®cantly reduced in the nitrogen-de®cient plants similar to plan...