Nutrient management in aquaponics : comparison of three approaches for cultivating lettuce, mint and mushroom herb

Nutrients that are contained in aquaculture effluent may not supply sufficient levels of nutrients for proper plant development and growth in hydroponics; therefore, they need to be supplemented. To determine the required level of supplementation, three identical aquaponic systems (A, B, and C) and one hydroponic system (D) were stocked with lettuce, mint, and mushroom herbs. The aquaponic systems were stocked with Nile tilapia. System A only received nutrients derived from fish feed; system B received nutrients from fish feed as well as weekly supplements of micronutrients and Fe; system C received the same nutrients as B, with weekly supplements of the macronutrients, P and K; in system D, a hydroponic inorganic solution containing N, Ca, and the same nutrients as system C was added weekly. Lettuce achieved the highest yields in system C, mint in system B, and mushroom herb in systems A and B. The present study demonstrated that the nutritional requirements of the mint and mushroom herb make them suitable for aquaponic farming because they require low levels of supplement addition, and hence little management effort, resulting in minimal cost increases. While the addition of supplements accelerated the lettuce growth (Systems B, C), and even surpassed the growth in hydroponic (System C vs. D), the nutritional quality (polyphenols, nitrate content) was better without supplementation

A classification of Fpk\mathbb{F}_{p^k}-braces using bilinear forms

Let $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$ be a finite field of odd characteristic $p$. In this paper we give a classification, up to isomorphism, of the associative commutative $\mathbb{F}_{p^k}$-algebras, starting from the connection with their bi-brace structure. Such classification is the generalization in odd characteristic of the result proved by Civino at al. in characteristic $2$

A classification of module braces over the ring of p\mathbf{p}-adic integers

In this paper we study the $R$-braces $(M,+,\circ)$ such that $M\cdot M$ is cyclic, where $R$ is the ring of $p$-adic and $\cdot$ is the product of the radical $R$-algebra associated to $M$. In particular, we give a classification up to isomorphism in the torsion-free case and up to isoclinism in the torsion case. More precisely, the isomorphism classes and the isoclinism classes of such radical algebras are in correspondence with particular equivalence classes of the bilinear forms defined starting from the products of the algebras

Transfinite hypercentral iterated wreath product of integral domains

Starting with an integral domain D of characteristic 0, we consider a class of iterated wreath product W_n of n copies of D. In order that W_n be transfinite hypercentral, it is necessary to restrict to the case of wreath products defined by way of numerical polynomials. We also associate to each of these groups a Lie ring, providing a correspondence preserving most of the structure. This construction generalizes a result of Sushchansky and Netreba (Algebra Discrete Math 122–132, 2005) which characterizes the Lie algebras associated to the Sylow p-subgroups of the symmetric group Sym(p^n). As an application, we explore the normalizer chain {N_i} starting from the canonical regular abelian subgroup T of W_n. Finally, we characterize the regular abelian normal subgroups of N_0 that are isomorphic to D^n

Autoinflammatory syndromes: diagnosis and management

During the last decades the description of autoinflammatory syndromes induced great interest among the scientific community. Mainly rheumatologists, immunologists and pediatricians are involved in the discovery of etiopathogenesis of these syndromes and in the recognition of affected patients. In this paper we will discuss the most important clues of monogenic and non-genetic inflammatory syndromes to help pediatricians in the diagnosis and treatment of these diseases