Organic tomato production is increasing worldwide, thus making necessary the development of varieties adapted to this farming system. It now well known that implementation local plant breeding programs for organic required increase performance in typology cultivation regime. In research, agronomic performance, nutraceutical contents, and radical scavenging activity a germplasm line (OSTGL), sel...

Auto-grading, as an instruction tool, could reduce teachers’ workload, provide students with instant feedback and support highly personalized learning. Therefore, this topic attracts considerable attentions from researchers recently. To realize the automatic grading of handwritten chemistry assignments, problem chemical notations recognition should be solved first. The recent solutions belongin...

Many Daily Mail readers will have been bemused recently. On 30 July, they were confronted by a headline reading " Organic no healthier than ordinary food ". Below, Science Reporter Fiona MacRae reported that, " organic food is no more healthy than other food, watchdogs declared yesterday. The Food Standards Agency's ruling, which follows the world's largest study into the subject, will be a hug...

Background In 2012 the Coordination Program Network of European Transnational Research in Organic Food and Farming Systems called for research on sustainable and efficient management of phosphorus and use of secondary fertilizers within organic agriculture. Recognizing that the mineral resources of natural phosphorous world-wide (suitable for extraction) are expected to meet requirements for th...

Asymmetric line shapes can occur in the transmission function describing electron transport in the vicinity of a minimum caused by quantum interference effects. Such asymmetry can be used to increase the thermoelectric efficiency of molecular junctions. So far, however, asymmetric line shapes have been only empirically found for just a few rather complex organic molecules where the origins of t...

The sensitivity of cultured L1210 and P388 cells, sensitive (L1210/0, P388/0) and resistant (L1210/CPA, P388/CPA) to cyclophosphamide in vivo, to five oxazaphosphorine and eight nonoxazaphosphorine cross-linking agents was determined. Each of the resistant sublines was cross-resistant to all of the oxazaphosphorines tested. The P388/CPA cell line was also cross-resistant to all of the nonoxazap...

Activated carbon filters are used to limit engine damage by siloxanes when biogas is utilised to provide electricity. However, carbon filter siloxane removal performance is poorly understood as until recently, it had not been possible to measure siloxanes on-line. In this study, on-line Fourier Transform Infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy was developed to measure siloxane concentration in real biogas...

Microwave generated plasma have found a number of technology based applications these include application in emission spectroscopy of the determination of elemental composition, production of catalytic materials and the area of coating technology. There is the possibility of using the high temperatures associated with plasmas for waste processing technologies. To date there has been limited amo...