the objective of this work is to analyze the effects of decrease in water subsidies (increase in the price of the water) on various economic sectors in order to promote the conservation of this resource based on the actual price of water. but over the past decades, various subsidizing methods hold the cost of water down. on the other hand, the indiscriminate use of these resources led the gover...

abstract- to investigate the effect of draught stress on water relations, stomatal density, chlorophyll content and yield of rapeseed, an experiment was done with four levels of drought stress including l1 (field capacity, fc), l2 (70% available water content, awc), l3 (50% awc), and l4 (30% awc), within three growth stages- including stem elongation (t1), onset of flowering (t2) and silique fo...

gaz-angubin is a sweet exudate naturally produced by an insect from the gavan-e-gaz-angubin plant. adsorption and desorption isotherms for a gaz-angubin sample were determined at 15° and 25°c over a range of relative humidity from 0 to 90% using a dynamic vapor sorption system. at different levels of relative humidity, changes in sample mass were continuously measured versus time and described ...

Irrigation water management is crucial for agricultural production and livelihood security in many regions and countries throughout the world. In this study, a two-stage stochastic fractional programming (TSFP) method is developed for planning an agricultural water resources management system under uncertainty. TSFP can provide an effective linkage between conflicting economic benefits and the ...

Modeling water flow in a VFCW is a prerequisite to model wastewater treatment using process based filtering models. As for soils, when the vertical structure varies in different material types, it has a significant impact on water flow passing through it. The heterogeneous filtering material is composed of a mix of mineral porous material, and organic matter which makes its hydraulic characteri...

Maize and barley plants were grown from seed for a period of 30 days in an enclosure in which the soil water and atmospheric vapour contained equilibrium concentrations of tritiated water. At the end of the experiment the plant water of the maize and the barley contained 95 and 84%, respectively, of the environmental concentration of tritium. The tritium-to-hydrogen ratio in plant dry matter wa...

background: a dressing often covers the wound to accelerate its healing. hydrocolloid-type dressing to give better conditions for healing has been developed consisting of gelatin, pectin, water and hydrophilic polymer which promote healing. in recent years, much attention has been focused on the research and development of polymer hydrogels as biomaterials, such as contact lenses, wound dressin...

0308-8146/$ see front matter 2009 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.foodchem.2009.03.050 * Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 765 494 1198; fax E-mail address: [email protected] (K.E. Ileleji). Corn distillers dried grains with solubles (DDGS) has high feed value due to its nutritive contents. The ratio of wet distillers grains (WDG) and condensed distillers solubles (CDS) added during the production ...

The effects of various additives on the physical properties of an amorphous sugar matrix were compared. Amorphous, sugar-additive mixtures were prepared by freeze-drying and then rehumidified at given RHs. Sucrose and eighteen types of substances were used as the sugar and the additive, respectively, and water sorption, glass-to-rubber transition, and protein stabilization during freeze-drying ...