Two field experiments were conducted at the Waimanalo research station on the island of O'ahu, Hawaii to study the effect of chicken (CM) and dairy (DM) manures on biomass and nutrient concentration in sweet corn roots and shoots. Sweet corn (super sweet 10, Zea Mays L. subsp. mays) was grown for two consecutive growing seasons under four rates of application (0, 168, 337, and 672 kg ha(-1) tot...

Ecosystem element cycles can be tightly linked by both abiotic and biotic processes. Evidence for multi-element limitation (i.e., colimitation) of a variety of ecosystem processes is growing rapidly, yet our ability to quantify patterns of coupled nutrient dynamics at the ecosystem level has been hindered by logistical and methodological constraints. Here we quantify coupled nitrogen and phosph...

The biological image of the transition element vanadium ferments a great deal of contradiction-from toxicity to essentiality. Importance of this element as micro-nutrient is yet to be unequivocally accepted by biologists and biomedical scientists. In spite of toxicity, it seems interesting to analyze the different biological roles of the element. Vanadium compounds have been proven to be associ...

What is micro nutrient testing? Although not all the same, these tests are fundamentally a measure of the body’s essential micro nutrients, usually taken from a blood test but can be from urine, sweat, hair, saliva or even toe nail clippings! A vast array of nutrients can be analysed but the most important and relevant have been collated in the recently developed Cancer Risk Nutritional Profile...

This research was carried out as pod cultivation to evaluate effect of different level of zinc and cadmium on agro physiological traits of Maize via factorial experiment based on completelly randomized design with three replications along 2012-2013. The factors included different level of Zinc (Zn1=0 or Control, Zn2=15 and Zn3=30 mg.kg-1) and Cadmium (Cd1=0 or control, Cd2=10, Cd3=20 and Cd4=30...

The paper demonstrates reduced order modeling (ROM) of the strongly coupled system level dynamic analysis of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) by lumped finite elements (FE) and substructuring implemented in the ANSYS/Multiphysics program. Index terms Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS), Finite elements (FE), Coupled analysis, Reduced order modeling (ROM)

The paper demonstrates reduced order modeling (ROM) of the strongly coupled system level dynamic analysis of micro electro mechanical systems (MEMS) by lumped finite elements (FE) and substructuring implemented in the ANSYS/Multiphysics program. Index terms Micro Electromechanical Systems (MEMS), Finite elements (FE), Coupled analysis, Reduced order modeling (ROM)

Simulation of new generation gas detectors is rendered complicated due to the non-trivial nature of the electric field and simultaneous presence of several length-scales. Computation of the electrostatic field, however, is extremely important since streamers in gas volume and streamers across the dielectric surfaces are known to cause serious damage to Micro Pattern Gas Detectors (MPGD) and are...