Rice is an essential crop in Iran that is grown mostly in areas where depth to groundwater is low. Root growth and water uptake of rice under shallow groundwater has not been thoroughly studied. This experiment was conducted to determine the lowland rice (cv. Ghasrodashti) root distribution above shallow groundwater in relation to deficit irrigation and groundwater depth in cylindrical gre...

In this section, we will use the Hammer et. al. data [1] to illustrate how to use the functions in the sSeq package. The two conditions are control Sprague Dawley after 2 months (Condition A) and L5 SNL Sprague Dawley after 2 months (Condition B). There are two samples within each condition. This data is included in the sSeq package as an example, and can be imported as follows. “countsTable” i...

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For many, especially complex, systems, modern spectroscopic measurements can be generated as large experimental data sets in matrix form. We report a new algorithm for the application of matrix rank analysis to extract significant experimental information from these large matrixes. The algorithm may be used to detect and remove erroneous rows and/or columns from the matrixes and to monitor the ...

A continuous soil column experiment was conducted to investigate reductive dechlorination of trichloroethylene (TCE) in soil system reductively manipulated by three types of reductants (Fe(II), dithionite, and Fe(II) + dithionite (combined treatment of Fe(II) and dithionite)). The soil column reduced by Fe(II) + dithionite has the greatest bed volumes (51.8) treated to breakthrough indicating t...

BACKGROUND Increasing sample throughput is needed when large numbers of samples have to be processed. In chromatography, one strategy is to reduce column length for decreased analysis time. Therefore, the feasibility of analyzing samples simply on a guard column was explored using refractive index and ultraviolet detection. Results from the guard columns were compared to the analyses using the ...

In this study, the behavior characteristics of I beam-to-concrete filled tube (CFT) column connection is studied through experiment and finite element models under the monotonic loading. To validate the finite element modeling, at first, an experimental model is made and experimented. After validation of the finite element modeling, different models were created in the software. The studied par...

Growing concern over the ecological consequence of phosphorus (P) enrichment in freshwater wetlands has elicited considerable debate over the concentration of water column P associated with eutrophication. In the oligotrophic Everglades, the displacement of native communities by enriched ones is widespread and has occurred at sites experiencing only minimal elevations in P input. To help define...

A study of sulfur-rich sludge (71.6% pyrite) dissolution at alkaline conditions (pH ca.9) was investigated using non-stirred and stirred flow-through experiments at room temperature (26 ± 1.2oC) and O2 partial pressure of 0.20 atm. The dissolution rate of pyrite-rich sludge was calculated based on the S release (aqueous SO4) at the steady-state. Results show that: (1) in the nonstirred reactor ...