Coastal wetlands, as transient links from terrestrial to marine environments, are important for nitrogen removal by denitrification. Denitrification strongly depends on both the presence of emergent plants and the denitrifier communities selected by different plant species. In this study, the effects of vegetation and habitat heterogeneity on the community of denitrifying bacteria were investig...

Deviations from the Standard Model (SM) expectations of the Lepton Universality (LU) breaking represent a powerful tool to probe New Physics (NP) effects. Kaon physics is an obvious ground where to perform such tests, for instance in the well studied R K = B(K → eν)/B(K → μν). Supersymmetric (SUSY) extensions of the Standard Model can exhibit μ − e non-universal contributions. Their origin is t...

On a global scale, most beef is produced from grazing pastures or rangelands. Certain limitations exist, however, such as not having adequate animal rates of gain for marbling and availability of adequate forage nutritional value and quantity for constant animal weight gains. In the last 20 yr, there has been an increased interest in forage-fed beef for multiple reasons (health related, environ...

A model which describes tiller density dynamics in bahiagrass (Paspalum notatum Flügge) swards has been developed. The model incorporates interrelationships between various morphogenetic and structural components of the sward and uses the inverse of the self-thinning rule as the standard relationship between tiller density and tiller weight (a density-size equilibrium) toward which tiller densi...

We examine resonant slepton production at the LHC with gravitinos in the final state. The slepton undergoes gauge decay into a neutralino and a lepton, the neutralino decays into a photon and a gravitino. By measuring the transverse masses of the γG̃ and the lγG̃ subsystems it is possible to accurately reconstruct both the slepton and the neutralino masses. In some regions of parameter space the ...

Nonstandard lepton-quark contact interactions may arise at low energies as a consequence of a common quark and lepton substructure or of heavy boson exchanges, when integrated out. There has recently been renewed interest @1# in contact interactions due to the fact that they are one of the potential explanations of the excess of events reported by H1 @2# and ZEUS @3#, the DESY ep collider at HE...