to investigate the effects of regulated deficit irrigation (rdi) on the growth, yield and quality of ‘yali’ pears, field experiments for c (fully watered control), ew [early withholding of irrigation, water stress from pullulation to 25 days after flower bloom (dafb)], mw (mid-growth withholding of irrigation, water stress from 25 dafb to 80 dafb), and lw (late withholding of irrigation, water ...

OBJECTIVE This study was conducted to investigate the effects of weaning times on the growth performance, rumen fermentation and microbial communities of yellow cattle calves. METHODS Eighteen calves were assigned to a conventional management group that was normally weaned (NW, n = 3) or to early weaned (EW) group where calves were weaned when the feed intake of solid feed (starter) reached 5...

The college years represent an important developmental period in the lives of young women, who report health-related difficulties such as sleep disturbance and body/eating concerns. This study explored whether expressive writing (EW) can decrease health-relevant complaints among college women. College females (n = 111) were randomised into an EW condition (writing about body concerns) or a cont...

Methylene blue (MB), a tricyclic phenothiazine drug, has been reported to enhance mitochondrial functions including mitochondrial respiration. By comparison, stress associated with abrupt ethanol withdrawal (EW) impedes mitochondrial functions. We investigated whether MB protects mitochondrial respiration and cell survival from EW stress through a key mitochondrial enzyme, cytochrome c oxidase ...

Na+ channel blockers flecainide and quinidine can increase propensity to ventricular tachyarrhythmia, whereas lidocaine and mexiletine are recognized as safe antiarrhythmics. Clinically, ventricular fibrillation is often precipitated by transient tachycardia that reduces action potential duration, suggesting that a critical shortening of the excitation wavelength (EW) may contribute to the arrh...

The origin of the luminosity dependence of the equivalent width (EW) of broad emission lines in AGN (the Baldwin effect) is not firmly established yet. We explore this question for the broad C iv λ1549 line using the Boroson & Green sample of the 87 z ≤ 0.5 Bright Quasar Survey (BQS) quasars. Useful UV spectra of the C iv region are available for 81 of the objects, which are used to explore the...

Several studies have shown the synergetic benefits of combining various chemical enhanced oil recovery (CEOR) methods with engineered waterflooding (EWF) in both sandstones and carbonate formations. This paper compares capillary desaturation tendency hybrid combinations water (EW) CEOR their conventional counterparts. coreflood experiments were conducted, including EW-surfactant flooding (EWSF)...

The paper reports on the comparison of the wetting properties of superhydrophobic silicon nanowires (NWs), using drop impact impalement and electrowetting (EW) experiments. A correlation between the resistance to impalement on both EW and drop impact is shown. From the results, it is evident that when increasing the length and density of NWs (i) the thresholds for drop impact and EW irreversibi...

Enhanced silicate weathering, the application of crushed calcium and magnesium-rich rocks to arable cropland, has been proposed as a potential negative emissions technology for drawdown atmospheric CO2. Previous estimates have suggested that enhanced weathering (EW) remove significant quantities CO2, much 6–30 Mt CO2 yr−1 UK. However, if secondary carbonates are precipitated during riverine tra...