To study the influence of dehydration conditions on pore structure and mechanical property expansive soil, two experimental with high-temperature drying (temperature 50 °C-humidity 10%) humid 70%) were carried out. Taking remolded soil in province Anhui China as research object, this paper used mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP) scanning electron microscopy (SEM) to analyze size distribution s...

Tomato (Solanum lycopersicum L.) is one of the most popular vegetable crops grown in the world, next to potato. It is used as a fresh vegetable and also can be processed and canned as a paste, juice, sauce, powder or as a whole (Barone and Frusciante, 2007). The ripe fruits are good source of vitamin A, B and C which add wide varieties of colour and flavour to the food. Recently, it started gai...

For settling the problem of acquiring environment parameters quickly and responding in time in greenhouse which has low ability of autocontrolling environment. This paper designed a voice service system which was used in greenhouse for environment information collecting. This equipment can acquire and analyze the parameters of temperature, humidity, illumination, dew point temperature, soil tem...

SMOS is ESA’s water mission observing key-elements of the Earth’s water cycle, i.e. soil moisture and ocean salinity. It features a novel instrument – MIRAS – that is the first synthetic aperture L-band radiometer ever operated on an EO space mission. High quality measurements representing the full Stokes vector have been made since 2009 and operationally delivered to a large user community. SM...

After the mining of mineral resource, mineland resources utilization became increasingly complicated. Soil and planting information can be used as the indicators to evaluate mineland reclamation level. In order to obtain the soil and planting information in real time, a CDMA-based soil-quality monitoring system was developed to wirelessly monitor air/soil environment and plant image in remote o...

Majority of the fungi producing diseases in man and animals exist freely in nature as soil saprophytes or plant pathogens and gain entrance into the body through abrasion, implantation or inhalation. Adametz isolated fungi for the first time from the soil in the year 1886, since then there has been very few reports. Manipal and surrounding places being coastal areas, experience heavy rainfall w...

ASTM C1585 is commonly used to determine the absorption and rate of absorption of water in unsaturated hydraulic cement concretes. Unfortunately, a wide range of relative humidities can exist in the samples after this relatively short conditioning period and such variation may considerably influence the test results. Three main variables were studied in this program: the water to cement ratio, ...

The activity of animals is defined mostly by internal genetic mechanisms, but physical factors, such as temperature, soil Ph, light duration, and humidity, play a role in the regulation of this biological process. For centipedes, for example, humidity is one of the key environmental factors that determines their distribution and activity. However, abiotic and biotic factors such as soil pH, tem...

Evapotranspiration (ET) is an important component of the hydrologic budget because it expresses the exchange of mass and energy between the soil-water-vegetation system and the atmosphere. Prevailing weather conditions influence potential or reference ET through variables such as radiation, temperature, wind, and relativity humidity. In addition to these weather variables, actual ET (ETa) is al...

This study analyzed meteorological, clinical and economic factors in terms of their effects on monthly ED revenue and visitor volume. Monthly data from January 1, 2005 to September 30, 2009 were analyzed. Spearman correlation and cross-correlation analyses were performed to identify the correlation between each independent variable, ED revenue, and visitor volume. Autoregressive integrated movi...