An assessment of the nitrogen fertilization efficiency should not only include quantitativeand qualitative yield changes, but also an analysis of formation some indicators such as: Nharvest index (NHI), N use efficiency (NUE), N utilization efficiency (NUtE), N agronomicefficiency (NAE), N physiological efficiency (NPE) and N apparent recovery fraction (NRF).The objective of the study was the e...

The stability of metallic clusters of sodium (N a) in the octahedral cages of N a-doped fullerites N a 6 C 60 and N a 11 C 60 is discussed within a Thomas-Fermi model. It is shown that the tetrahedral N a 4-cluster in N a 6 C 60 has an electric charge ∼ +2.7 (in electron charge units), while the body-centered cubic N a 9-cluster in N a 11 C 60 is almost electrically neutral. The nature of the m...

The three-nucleon system is studied at energies a few hundred keV above the N-d threshold. Measurements of the tensor analyzing powers T 20 and T 21 for p-d elastic scattering at E c.m. = 432 keV are presented together with the corresponding theoretical predictions. The calculations are extended to very low energies since they are useful for extracting the p-d scattering lengths from the experi...

Starch was preirradiated with cobalt-60 and then allowed to react with mixtures of acrylamide and N,N,N-trimethylaminoethyl methacrylate methyl sulfate (TMAEMA' MS) in a water solution. The graft copolymers resulting were purified and characterized, and the influence of a number of irradiation and reaction variables on graft copolymer composition was determined. Although the reaction of irradia...

Mechanical, microstructural properties, mineral content and bone mineral density (BMD) of the femur were evaluated in growing rats fed with Opuntia ficus indica (L.) Mill. (Cactaceae) cladodes at different maturity stages as calcium source. Male weanling rats were fed with cladodes at early maturity stage (25 and 60 days of age, belonging to groups N-60 and N-200, respectively) and cladodes at ...