A two-year experiment was carried out at Shenyang Agricultural University’s research field area in China to evaluate the impact of combined application straw mulch (0 and 8 t ha−1) biochar (0, 4, 12, 36 on morphological traits grain development rainfed maize during 2018 2019. The results showed that different rates significantly impacted growth index. Compared non-biochar-treated soils, introdu...

SIGNIFICANCE OF AUTO-ENROLLMENT: Automatic enrollment of participants in 401(k) plans, which was encouraged by provisions in the Pension Protect Act of 2006, is designed to overcome the drawbacks of voluntary enrollment by getting more workers to save in their work place retirement plan. Auto-enrollment for 401(k) plans has been demonstrated by previous EBRI research to have substantial potenti...

Respiratory tract infection, most often involving opportunistic bacterial species with broad-spectrum antibiotic resistance, is the primary cause of death in persons with cystic fibrosis (CF). Species within the Burkholderia cepacia complex are especially problematic in this patient population. We investigated a novel surfactant-stabilized oil-in-water nanoemulsion (NB-401) for activity against...

The 2015−2016 El Niño was one of the strongest on record, but its influence carbon balance is less clear. Using Northern Hemisphere atmospheric CO2 observations, we found both detrended growth rate (CGR) and seasonal-cycle amplitude (SCA) were much higher than that other events. simultaneous high CGR SCA unusual, because our analysis long-term observations at Mauna Loa revealed a significantly ...

With the development of additive manufacturing (AM), Ti-6Al-4V alloy manufactured by laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is becoming more widely studied. Fatigue fracture main failure mode such components. During LPBF processing, porosity defects are unavoidable, which hinders exploration relationship between fatigue performance and microstructure. In this study, a remelting method was used to reduc...

A new method to determine entropic profiles in DNA sequences is presented. It is based on the chaos-game representation (CGR) of gene structure, a technique which produces a fractal-like picture of DNA sequences. First, the CGR image was divided into squares 4-m in size (m being the desired resolution), and the point density counted. Second, appropriate intervals were adjusted, and then a histo...

A total of five highly related strains of an unidentified marine bacterium were analyzed through their short genome sequences (AM260709-AM260713). Genome-to-Genome Distance (GGDC) showed high similarity to Pseudoalteromonas haloplanktis (X67024). The generated unique Quick Response (QR) codes indicated no identity to other microbial species or gene sequences. Chaos Game Representation (CGR) sho...