to investigate the effect of salicylic acid (sa) on salinity tolerance of two sugar beet cultivars, this experiment was conducted as split factorial based on a randomized complete block design with three replications during growing seasons of 2012 and 2013 in research farm of shahid chamran university. the studied factors were three levels of sa (0 mm, 0.5 mm and 1 mm), two levels of salinity (...

Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation (PEO) was applied to extruded ZM21 Mg alloys improve their corrosion resistance in a chloride-containing environment. PEO carried out DC mode and voltage control fluoride-free electrolyte. Potentiodynamic polarization tests 3.5 wt.% NaCl aqueous solution neutral salt spray (NSS) were out. Microstructural profilometric characterization, as well NSS performed differe...

The injuries caused by spray drying (SD) of three potential probiotic lactobacilli isolated from kefir grains and the impact on some probiotic properties, were evaluated. Results demonstrated that Lactobacillus plantarum 83114 and L. kefir 8321 showed a slight reduction of viability (0.11 and 0.29 log CFU/ml respectively) after SD process, and L. kefir 8348 was found to be more sensitive to the...

OBJECTIVE The objective of this randomized, prospective, double-blind study was to compare nasal irrigation using hypertonic Dead Sea salt (DSS) solution with hypertonic saline in the treatment of chronic rhinosinusitis and improvement of quality of life (QOL). METHODS With Institutional Review Board approval, 42 adults seeking treatment for chronic rhinosinusitis in a tertiary university-aff...

The corrosion behavior of austempered ductile iron (ADI) under cyclic salt spray exposure was studied using a specific three-electrode cell located in the fog chamber. Three steps were identified, namely pitting ferrite (very first cycles), followed by inward oxidation ausferrite matrix and then (iii) mixed associated with formation rust layer at specimen surface. Evolution rate calculated from...

Abstract Abiotic stresses are the most major limitation to crop production, causing yield losses up 50%, and consider challenges for production of crops. Thus, an experiment was conducted determine how sugar beet would respond soil application K-humate rates foliar biostimulants under salt stress. Split-plot design in three replicates used both seasons, where fertigation (control, 12, 24 kg ha ...

A thin industrial corrosion-protection nanostructured coating for the Al alloy AA2024-T3 is demonstrated. The prepared in a two-step process utilizing hard anodizing as pre-treatment, followed by sealing and atomic layer deposition (ALD). In first step, sulfuric acid at low temperature converts surface into low-porosity anodic oxide. second pores are sealed coated low-temperature ALD using diff...

This Review provides a general understanding of paper spray-MS, including the methodology and theory associated with a number of different related applications. This method has become a direct sampling/ionization method for mass spectrometric analysis at ambient conditions and, as a result, it has greatly simplified and increased the speed of mass-spectrum analysis. It has now become an increas...

The current study focuses on comprehensive fuel spray modeling and its effects on chamber acoustics in combustion dynamics simulations. The fuel spray is modeled using an Eulerian-Lagrangian approach describing the atomizer internal flow, primary atomization, and secondary atomization processes. To anchor the fuel spray model, a series of experiments has been conducted on the fuel atomizer with...