BACKGROUND: Polyacrylamide is the main synthetic polymer used, and it absorbs water through the formation of hydrogen bonds. Super Absorbent Polymer (SAP) can absorb water up to 200-400 times its weight and increase its size by up to 100 times. OBJECTIVES: Evaluate effect of different irrigation regime and super absorbent polymer on agrop...

In the present study, Fe3O4 super paramagnetic nanoparticles were synthesized via co-precipitation of Fe3+ and Fe2+ chloride salts in the presence of ammonia Solution. The product was characterized by Fourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM), and zeta–potential particle size distributing methods. The synt...

Single-molecule magnets approach the ultimate size limit for spin-based devices. These complexes can retain spin information over long periods of time at low temperature, suggesting possible applications in high-density information storage, quantum computing and spintronics. Notably, the success of most such applications hinges upon raising the inherent molecular spin-inversion barrier. Althoug...

A design is additive under an abelian group G (briefly, G-additive) if, up to isomorphism, its point set contained in and the elements of each block sum zero. The only known Steiner 2-designs that are G-additive for some have size which either a prime power or plus one. Indeed they point-line designs affine spaces AG(n,q), projective planes PG(2,q), PG(n,2) sporadic example 2-(8191,7,1) design....

Adipose tissue engineering offers a promising alternative to current breast reconstruction options. However, the conventional approach of using a scaffold in combination with adipose-derived precursor cells poses several problems in terms of scalability and hence clinical feasibility. Following the body-as-a-bioreactor approach, this study proposes a unique concept of delayed fat injection into...

Planar optical lenses are fundamental elements of miniaturized photonic devices. However, conventional planar optical lenses are constrained by the diffraction limit in the optical far-field due to the band-limited wavevectors supported by free-space and loss of high-spatial-frequency evanescent components. As inspired by Einstein's radiation 'needle stick', electromagnetic energy can be delive...

A popular approach for single image super-resolution (SR) is to use scaled down versions of the given image to build an internal training dictionary of pairs of low resolution (LR) and high resolution (HR) image patches, which is then used to predict the HR image. This self-similarity approach has the advantage of not requiring a separate external training database. However, due to their limite...

in order to evaluate the effects of planting pattern on morphological, phonological, yield and yield components of sweet and super sweet corn (zea mays l.) varieties under saline conditions, a field experiment was conducted as split plots based on a randomized complete block design with four replications. planting pattern in 3 levels included one row in ridge, two row in ridge and furrow planti...