Epidemiologic evidence associates particulate air pollution with cardiopulmonary morbidity and mortality. The biological mechanisms underlying these associations and the relationship between ambient levels and retained particles in the lung remain uncertain. We examined the parenchymal particle content of 11 autopsy lungs from never-smoking female residents of Mexico City, a region with high am...

To determine the effects of straw incorporation on soil nutrients, enzyme activity, and aggregates in tobacco fields, we conducted experiments with different amounts of wheat and maize straw in Zhucheng area of southeast Shandong province for three years (2010–2012). In the final year of experiment (2012), straw incorporation increased soil organic carbon (SOC) and related parameters, and impro...

Soil mulching is one of the common measures applied in organic agricultural production which could replace plastic films and protect environment. In order to fully evaluate effects different straw thicknesses on soil health, maize was mulched with 0 cm (CK), 2 cm, 4 6 surface assess temperature (ST) moisture (SM), pH, carbon (SOC), total nitrogen (TN), C/N, aggregates bulk density (SBD) a tempe...

introduction soil infiltration rate is the major soil hydraulic property which can be affected by the soil physical characteristics and management practices. the use of land can affect various soil properties such as physical and hydraulic properties. differences of the hydraulic soil characteristics such as infiltration rate in various land uses can affect their potential to runoff production ...

Introduction: Sieving was used extensively until 1999 to determine the particle size distribution of lunar samples. This method is time-consuming, and requires more than a gram of material in order to obtain a result in which one may have confidence. This is demonstrated by the difference in geometric mean and median for samples measured by [1], in which a 14-gram sample produced a geometric me...