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Fertilisation with compost: effects on soil phosphorus sorption and on phosphorus availability in acid soils.
Phosphate mineral fertilisers are manufactured from non-renewable resources.Soil fertilisation with composts is considered a good source of reuse nutrients such as phosphorus (P). The aim of this work was to evaluate the
effect of compost fertilisation on soil P sorption and consequently on P availability. It was done an incubation experiment followed by a sorption experiment in a low-P acid soil fertilised with compost (CP) or single superphosphate (SSP). The P application rates were: 0, 6.5, 13, 26 and 52 (kgâPâhaâ1). In CP treatments, the rates 26 and 52 kgâPâhaâ1 were achieved by adding SSP to CP since it was not allowed to incorporate into soil more than 170 kgâNâhaâ1 from organic amendments. Although SSP has a higher proportion of easily available P than CP (86% vs 50%), the results showed that after 140 days of soil incubation, the available P was higher in CP treatments compared with SSP at the same rate of P application. The sorption experiment showed that after incubation of the fertilised soils, the P sorption maximum had lower values in treatments with CP in combination with SSP compared with only SSP fertilisation and the bonding energy had a deeper decrease in
the same treatments. Also, the Standard Phosphate Requirement decreased in the CP in combination with SSP treatments. The reduction of soil P sorption capacity after compost addition to soil highlights the need of reducing P fertilisation rates to achieve similar levels of available P compared with only SSP fertilisation.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio
Reflections on digital innovation
The paper by Henfridsson et al. opens up a new agenda for IS research on the
content and process of digital innovation. The crucial element in their
perspective is the role of recombination in innovation. They supplement an
emphasis on design recombination with a symmetrical emphasis on use
recombination. While supporting Henfridsson et al.s overall argument, I point
out how central parts overlap with and are extended in disciplines outside IS
research
Breaking the core-envelope symmetry in p-mode pulsating stars
It has been shown that there is a potential ambiguity in the asteroseismic
determination of the location of internal structures in a pulsating star. We
show how, in the case of high-order non-radial acoustic modes, it is possible
to remove this ambiguity by considering modes of different degree. To support
our conclusions we have investigated the seismic signatures of sharp density
variations in the structure of quasi-homogeneous models.Comment: 3 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and
Astrophysic
Porto Oscillation Code (POSC)
The Porto Oscillation Code (POSC) has been developed in 1995 and improved
over the years, with the main goal of calculating linear adiabatic oscillations
for models of solar-type stars. It has also been used to estimate the
frequencies and eigenfunctions of stars from the pre-main sequence up to the
sub-giant phase, having a mass between 0.8 and 4 solar masses.
The code solves the linearised perturbation equations of adiabatic pulsations
for an equilibrium model using a second order numerical integration method. The
possibility of using Richardson extrapolation is implemented. Several options
for the surface boundary condition can be used. In this work we briefly review
the key ingredients of the calculations, namely the equations, the numerical
scheme and the output.Comment: Accepted for publication in Astrophysics and Space Science
Quantum chaos with complex, non-periodic orbits
We show that special types of orbits, which are nonperiodic and complex âsaddle orbitsâ (SOs), describe accurately the quantal and experimental current oscillations in the resonant tunneling diode in tilted fields. The SOs solve the puzzle of broad regions of experimental oscillations where we find no real or complex periodic orbit (PO) that can explain the data. The SOs succeed in regimes involving several nonisolated POs, where PO formulas fail. We show that their contribution can, unexpectedly, decay very slowly in the classical limit
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