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Crop response to liquid swine effluent and solid cattle manure over four years in east-central Saskatchewan
Non-Peer ReviewedDue to the advent of relatively cheap chemical N fertilizers, the use of livestock manure as a source of nutrients to crops was downplayed (James, et al., 1996). However, the expansion of the livestock industry, the need to utilize of the manure in an environmentally friendly and economically viable manner, and the desire to minimize the use of chemical N fertilizers have rekindled interest in the use of livestock manure as a fertilizer. Of particular interest is the need to utilize manure from large-scale intensive livestock operations (Chang and Janzen, 1996). This report is part of an on-going study initiated in 1996 to examine the soil and crop response to application of liquid swine manure and solid feedlot cattle manure at different rates and methods of application. Furthermore, the study seeks to evaluate nutrient forms and amounts in the manure and the effect of rate and method of manure application on soil fertility, nutrient
utilization and crop yield. This paper puts together and summarizes the results of crop response to annual application of the two types of manure compared to that of urea fertilizer observed over the past four years, 1997 to 2000
PP-111 Hepatitis B virus (HBV) subgenotypes and mutations in core promoter and precore/core and their clinical implications in Xinjiang Uighur patients
R-parity violation effect on the top-quark pair production at linear colliders
We investigate in detail the effects of the R-parity lepton number violation
in the minimal supersymmetric standard model (MSSM) on the top-quark pair
production via both and collision modes at the linear
colliders. We find that with the present experimental constrained
parameters, the effect from interactions on the processes
and could be
significant and may reach -30% and several percent, respectively. Our results
show that the effects are sensitive to the c.m.s. energy and the
relevant parameters. However, they are not sensitive to squark and
slepton masses when (or ) and are almost independent on the Comment: Accepted by Phys.Rev.
Sturmian morphisms, the braid group B_4, Christoffel words and bases of F_2
We give a presentation by generators and relations of a certain monoid
generating a subgroup of index two in the group Aut(F_2) of automorphisms of
the rank two free group F_2 and show that it can be realized as a monoid in the
group B_4 of braids on four strings. In the second part we use Christoffel
words to construct an explicit basis of F_2 lifting any given basis of the free
abelian group Z^2. We further give an algorithm allowing to decide whether two
elements of F_2 form a basis or not. We also show that, under suitable
conditions, a basis has a unique conjugate consisting of two palindromes.Comment: 25 pages, 4 figure
Effect of mass transport on the electrochemical oxidation of alcohols over electrodeposited film and carbon-supported pt electrodes
© 2018 The Author(s) Electrochemical oxidation of four different alcohol molecules (methanol, ethanol, n-butanol and 2-butanol) at electrodeposited Pt film and carbon-supported Pt catalyst film electrodes, as well as the effect of mass transport on the oxidation reaction, has been studied systematically using the rotating disk electrode (RDE) technique. It was shown that oxidation current decreased with an increase in the rotation rate (ω) for all alcohols studied over electrodeposited Pt film electrodes. In contrast, the oxidation current was found to increase with an increase in the ω for Pt/C in ethanol and n-butanol-containing solutions. The decrease was found to be nearly reversible for ethanol and n-butanol at the electrodeposited Pt film electrode ruling out the possibility of intermediate CO ads poisoning being the sole cause of the decrease and was attributed to the formation of soluble intermediate species which diffuse away from the electrode at higher ω. In contrast, an increase in the current with an increase in ω for the carbon supported catalyst may suggest that the increase in residence time of the soluble species within the catalyst layer, results in further oxidation of these species. Furthermore, the reversibility of the peak current on decreasing the ω could indicate that the surface state has not significantly changed due to the sluggish reaction kinetics of ethanol and n-butanol
TCTAP A-133 Treatment Delay in Door-to-Balloon Time in South-East Asian Patients Undergoing Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention for ST-Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction: A Key Process Analysis of Patient Factors
Blow up criterion for compressible nematic liquid crystal flows in dimension three
In this paper, we consider the short time strong solution to a simplified
hydrodynamic flow modeling the compressible, nematic liquid crystal materials
in dimension three. We establish a criterion for possible breakdown of such
solutions at finite time in terms of the temporal integral of both the maximum
norm of the deformation tensor of velocity gradient and the square of maximum
norm of gradient of liquid crystal director field.Comment: 22 page
ABJM with Flavors and FQHE
We add fundamental matters to the N=6 Chern-Simons theory (ABJM theory), and
show that D6-branes wrapped over AdS_4 x S^3/Z_2 in type IIA superstring theory
on AdS_4 x CP^3 give its dual description with N=3 supersymmetry. We confirm
this by the arguments based on R-symmetry, supersymmetry, and brane
configuration of ABJM theory. We also analyze the fluctuations of the D6-brane
and compute the conformal dimensions of dual operators. In the presence of
fractional branes, the ABJM theory can model the fractional quantum Hall effect
(FQHE), with RR-fields regarded as the external electric-magnetic field. We
show that an addition of the flavor D6-brane describes a class of fractional
quantum Hall plateau transition.Comment: 23 pages, Latex, no figures; (v2) references added, typos correcte
Stability and Decay Rates of Non-Isotropic Attractive Bose-Einstein Condensates
Non-Isotropic Attractive Bose-Einstein condensates are investigated with
Newton and inverse Arnoldi methods. The stationary solutions of the
Gross-Pitaevskii equation and their linear stability are computed. Bifurcation
diagrams are calculated and used to find the condensate decay rates
corresponding to macroscopic quantum tunneling, two-three body inelastic
collisions and thermally induced collapse.
Isotropic and non-isotropic condensates are compared. The effect of
anisotropy on the bifurcation diagram and the decay rates is discussed.
Spontaneous isotropization of the condensates is found to occur. The influence
of isotropization on the decay rates is characterized near the critical point.Comment: revtex4, 11 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to Phys. Rev.
Hidden Order in the Cuprates
We propose that the enigmatic pseudogap phase of cuprate superconductors is
characterized by a hidden broken symmetry of d(x^2-y^2)-type. The transition to
this state is rounded by disorder, but in the limit that the disorder is made
sufficiently small, the pseudogap crossover should reveal itself to be such a
transition. The ordered state breaks time-reversal, translational, and
rotational symmetries, but it is invariant under the combination of any two. We
discuss these ideas in the context of ten specific experimental properties of
the cuprates, and make several predictions, including the existence of an
as-yet undetected metal-metal transition under the superconducting dome.Comment: 12 pages of RevTeX, 9 eps figure
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