effects of different tillage systems on dispersion ratio, status of aggregation, degree of aggregation, mean weight diameter, geometric diameter, the rain-fed wheat yield and the yield components were investigated by a field trial using a completely randomized block design with five treatments in four replicates during 2009-2010 growing season at gorgan university of agricultural science and na...

abstract disc infiltrometer is one of those devices that used in recent years in measurement of hydraulic conductivity of entire soil. in order to analyze the data taken by disc infiltrometer a variety of methods based on wooding’s base analyze have been introduced. the objective of this study was to compare the performances of ankeny and weir methods for predicting soil hydraulic properties us...

The objective of this study is to investigate the effects of acupuncture, core-stability exercises, and treadmill 12-minute walking exercises in treating patients with postsurgical lumbar disc herniation. A 34-year-old woman with a history lumbar disc prolapse who had undergone lumbar disc surgery on two different occasions was treated using acupuncture, core-stability exercises, and treadmill ...

BACKGROUND Tienchi (Panax notoginseng) has been used in conservative treatments for back pain as a major ingredient of many herbal medicines. This study aims to investigate the effects of a herbal medicine containing tienchi on compressed intervertebral discs in rats. METHODS Using an in vivo rat tail model, intervertebral disc compression was simulated in the caudal 8-9 discs of 25 rats by c...

The delayed hard (up to 25 GeV) photons observed more than an hour following a gamma-ray burst on February 17, 1994 may result from the collisions of relativistic nucleons with a dense cloud, producing π 0. The required cloud density is ∼ 2 × 10 11 cm −3. This cloud may be the remains of the disrupted envelope of a neutron star, and may survive as an excretion disc of ∼ 10 14 –10 15 cm radius a...

Experimental measurements of the diffusion coefficient of human methemoglobin were made at 25 degrees C with a modified Stokes diaphragm diffusion cell. A Millipore filter was used in place of the ordinary fritted disc to facilitate rapid achievement of steady state in the diaphragm. Methemoglobin concentrations varied from approximately 5 g/100 ml to 30 g/100 ml. The diffusion coefficient in t...

Physical, chemical and biological attributes of soil surface are significantly affected by tillage practices and crop rotation. The objective of this study was to determine the short-term (2006-2009) effects of conventional and conservational tillage practices on selected soil physical properties of a heavy clay soil under two wheat-corn and wheatlegume rotation in a semi-arid Mediterranean...