In order to study the damage mechanism of fissure-grouted rocks in abandoned mine pumped storage, uniaxial compression tests were conducted using rock specimens after dry and wet cycles. Additionally, acoustic emission sensors used track specimens. The results demonstrate a negative correlation between peak strength elastic modulus linear decrease wave velocity mechanical characteristics fractu...

The aim of this study was to examine stories of abandoned babies’ news published in newspapers in Turkey. In this retrospective descriptive study, infant deaths and abuse stories in newspapers published as Turkish examined. In the 80 news published between 01.01.2013 and 31.12.2014, 88 babies reported. Twenty eight (31.82%) of these babies were abandoned. Of abandoned babies, 25 had died, 23 we...

Abstract The effects of the farming system (conventional-organic-abandoned) and soil management (native cover crop vs tillage) on vascular plant species were analyzed in sloping olive groves (>20%) 20 different locations Andalusia, SE Spain. techniques included Organic Tillage (OT), Cover Crops (OC), Conventional (CT), Non-Tillage (CNT), Abandoned (AC) Woody (AW). Data for recorded through t...

Japan's rice sector is supported by high prices paid by consumers that allow many farm households to maintain small rice farms. Japan's government controls trade within a tariff-rate quota and imposes a prohibitively high tariff on imports outside the quota. Within Japan, diversion programs pay farmers to substitute other crops for rice since, without government-mandated diversion, supply would...

Successes • Many people showed up at the public meeting. • The citizen group wants to continue beyond the MERIT project. • Increased level of knowledge on both sides of the table. • A deeper understanding of pesticide sources and precautionary actions. • Implementation of cooperative farming contracts is not only a question of money. • There are new opportunities to establish waterworks coopera...

BACKGROUND Numerous malaria epidemics have occurred in western Kenya, with increasing frequency over the past 20 years. A variety of hypotheses on the etiology of these epidemics have been put forth, with different implications for surveillance and control. We investigated the ecological and socioeconomic factors promoting highland malaria vectors in the dry season after the 2002 epidemic. ME...

There are large discrepancies among estimates of the cropland area in China due to the lack of reliable data. In this study, we used Landsat TM/ ETM data at a spatial resolution of 30 m to reconstruct spatial and temporal patterns of cropland across China for the time period of 1990–2000. Our estimate has indicated that total cropland area in China in 2000 was 141.1 million hectares (ha), inclu...

In this study the quantification of biomass within all relevant compartments of a three-year-old poplar clone (P. maximowicii × P. trichocarpa) planted on abandoned agricultural land at a density of 5000 trees ha −1 is presented. A total of 30 trees within a diameter range of 1.8 cm to 8.9 cm, at breast height (dbh at 1.3 m), were destructively sampled. In order to analyze the biomass, the comp...