Abstract The objective of this research is to test the feasibility a large-scale application fertilizer drawn forward osmosis using concentrated hydroponic nutrient solution as draw solution. This will help mitigate ever-growing issue freshwater resources, by providing an alternative source for agriculture. method can then be used grow crops hydroponically in arid regions that have access both ...

Controllable depositing of relatively thick inorganic sublayers into organic templates to fabricate organic-inorganic superlattices is of great importance. We report a novel approach to fabricating phospholipid/Ni(OH)(2) superlattices by electrochemical deposition of the inorganic component into solid-supported multilamellar templates. The well-ordered and highly oriented multilamellar template...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Root absorption and assimilation of inorganic nitrogen usually alters rhizosphere pH, but the immediate influence of such pH changes on root elongation as well as that of exogenous inorganic nitrogen itself has been uncertain. METHODS A differential extensiometer that monitored on a real-time, continuous basis root elongation in an intact 3-d-old maize plant was developed....

A novel organic-inorganic hybrid of triethanolamine linked covalently with a new building block of {VMo6O25} was synthesized in aqueous solution, and the hybrid was further assembled with copper-triethanolamine complexes to form a ring-like structure. This work represents an advance in the organic functionalization of polyoxometalate performed in aqueous solution instead of an organic solvent.

Colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are widely studied as building blocks for novel solid-state materials. Inorganic surface functionalization, used to displace native organic capping ligands from NC surfaces, has been a major enabler of electronic solid-state devices based on colloidal NCs. At the same time, very little is known about the atomistic details of the organic-to-inorganic li...

The ISIS-model allows a better understanding for managers and regional authorities of the ongoing change towards the information based “New Economy” and towards an information society. New policies have become possible for generating sustainable regional growth, sustainable in both, regional economic success and ecological health. The ISIS-model is build for evaluating policies for sustainabili...

Isis: Page 6 Two recent archaeological developments have brought Cleopatra into the news. They each concern tombs—her sister Arsinoe’s tomb and her own. A skull of a skeleton found early last century in ‘The Octagon’ a tomb in Ephesus in Turkey was recently reconstructed using measurements of the skeleton taken in the 1920s. The skull itself was lost in the 1940s. The reconstructed skull turned...

Deliverable One Identifying Key Requirements for Pricing Reform Status: Public Version: 3.0 October 2002 Authors: Bryan Matthews and Chris Nash, Institute for Transport Studies, Leeds Project Partners: Institute for Transport Studies (ITS), Leeds Forschungs-undAnwenungsverbund Verkehrssystemtechnik (FAV), Berlin Istituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi (ISIS), Rome Netherlands Organizat...

Bone like hydroxyapatite (nHAp) was synthesized via an in situ biomimetic process in presence of wheat starch. The effect of polymer concentration alteration on the final structure of nHAp was investigated. Formation of the nHAp at room temperature was confirmed by X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). Size and morphology of the nHAp samples were character...