... the channels was studied in detail in order to define the characteristics of the different types of landslides causing the debris to be accumulated in these channels Finally, laboratory investigation ... occurs in massive rocks), rock sliding (planner failures) where many rock joints and shear zones dip towards the channel, and rockfalls Debris range in their size from up to m in diameter to fine ... along the sides of the channels including rock sliding, toppling, and ravelling, as well as related to fall of the colluviums that located at the top of the mountain slopes Finally, suitable mitigation...
... 0.1% in desert soils to close to 100.0% inorganic soils In inorganic soils, organic and inorganic components are so closely associated that it is necessary t o first separate the two before either ... acidic organic soils and from inorganic soils rich inorganicmatter and boiled for 24 h with N HCl prior to ESR analyses ESR spectra of some of the resulting materials showed four lines, indicative ... Developments inSoil Science SOILORGANICMATTER Further Titles in this Series I VALETON BAUXITES I.A H.R FUNDAMENTALS OF TRANSPORI' PHENOMENA IN POROUS MEDIA F.E A L L ISON SOILORGANICMATTER AND...
... 2:21 PM 134 SoilOrganicMatterin Sustainable Agriculture General and Specific Suppression Historically, suppressiveness to soilborne diseases in field soils has been divided into two major categories: ... 1979) In another experiment in which increasing amounts of suppressive litter was added to a conducive lateritic field soil, hyphal lysis occurred within 24 h in soils containing 50% or more organic ... PM 138 SoilOrganicMatterin Sustainable Agriculture involved the exploitation of the indigenous soil microflora, which to me have been much neglected in favor of intensive research on individual...
... data) In the soil, organic matter, metals (such as iron), clays, and other substances might bind to glomalin, causing conformational changes or masking the reactive site and thereby interfering ... 11:19 AM 180 SoilOrganicMatterin Sustainable Agriculture ESTIMATING FUNGAL BIOMASS Microbial biomass is often used as an indicator of the microbial contribution tosoilorganic matter, plant ... differences in counts between individuals or laboratories; (3) heterogeneous distribution of hyphae in the soil; and (4) differences in extraction techniques, such as grinding soilin a mixer compared to...
... often increase the amount of organic C and N in POM (Wander and Bidart, 2000) Fine SOM fractions are less vulnerable to tillage disruption due to closer binding tosoil minerals in the form of mineral organic ... also shown promise in predicting available soil nutrients Other approaches to determine the contribution of SOM to nutrient cycling include measuring the amounts of soil mineralizable C and N, ... AM Strategies for Managing SoilOrganicMatterto Supply Plant Nutrients 275 TABLE 9.1 Two- Year Average Yield of Tomato in Conventional (Inorganic Fertilizer Only), Low-Input (One Half Conventional...
... used to characterize soil quality Indicators of soil quality are needed to measure changes insoil function that occur because of alteration in management Total organicmatter can be an indicator; ... 296 SoilOrganicMatterin Sustainable Agriculture Soil Quality Soil quality is defined as the capacity of a soilto function within ecosystem boundaries to sustain biological productivity, maintain ... organism to survive in different environments (MacArthur and Wilson, 1967) To indicate two contrasting methods of selection in animals, K refers to the carrying capacity and r to the maximum intrinsic...
... PM 328 SoilOrganicMatterin Sustainable Agriculture INTRODUCTION The importance of soil biota insoil pedogenesis and in maintaining soil structure, organicmatter breakdown, recycling of nutrients, ... limited to living inorganic materials and cannot survive long in soil; these species are commonly used in vermiculture and vermicomposting All earthworm species depend on consuming organicmatterin ... large particles of organicmatter into complex amorphous colloids containing phenolic groups Only ca 25% of the total fresh organicmatter reacting insoil gets converted to humus this way Much...
... temporal terms In addition to point measurements, soil moisture can be measured usingremotesensingRemotesensing methods can collect spatial data over large areas on a routine basis, providing a potential ... remotesensing has been successfully used for rice crop inventory (Chakraborty and Panigrahy 2000) 2.4 Microwave RemoteSensing and Soil Moisture Remotesensing technology is spatial in nature, ... Time-Domain Reflectory (TDR) Soil Moisture Probe 10 Since the early sixties, satellite remotesensing has developed as a prominent tool to monitor and compute environmental processes in both spatial...
... been widely used in numerous applications in order to obtain much of the earth surface spatial information This paper has used remotesensing technology to study in Ho Chi Minh City for such ... mangrove forests According to statistical data, the population density has increased from 552 pers/km2 in 1985 to 3,067 pers/km2 in 2006 (in urban areas about 10,905 pers/km2, in rural areas about ... LST in 1989, 1998 and 2006 The statistics of LST in Table indicates that the highest temperature was increased from 39.8oC in 1989 to 49.4oC in 2006 It was only the instantaneous results in the...
... helped to extend Ho Chi Minh City in all directions. As it is shown by the analysis of remotesensingdatain 1989 and 2002, the built‐up land increased most in districts Tan Binh, Go ... them. Satellite remotesensing collects multi‐ spectral, multi‐resolution and multi‐temporal data and turns them into valuable information for understanding and monitoring urban land ... imagery to improve classification in an urban area Photogrammetric Engineering and RemoteSensing 61 (1995) 993. [5] Institute of Economic Research and Department of Culture and Information ...
... delivers an intensity modulated photon field by moving the collimator leaves during irradiation [3] Physical intensity modulators are being used to deliver IMRT since the advent of inverse planning software ... paucity of data regarding the practice of IMRT in thoracic malignancies in literature using physical intensity modulators We have presented the initial observations and results using PIMs and ... able to achieve an average reduction in mean doses by 73% to the entire heart, 69% totwo third of the heart, 49% to one third and 69% to the entire right lung, 70% totwo third and 54% to one...
... protein-DNA binding, followed by de novo motif finding and searching within the potential binding regions We show that our algorithm can greatly reduce false positive findings while maintaining ... bound to and diffusing along DNAs [15] Like the ability to bind to specific targets, non-specific binding to DNA is a bona fide TF ability and therefore, this type of noise signal cannot be eliminated ... difficult to determine the statistical accuracy of the findings when multiple lines of evidence are integrated In ChIP-PaM, we propose a novel data- based two- step FDR procedure to solve this problem In...
... Land Use Mapping UsingRemoteSensing & GIS Techniques in Naina - Gorma Basin, Part of Rewa District, M.P., India International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering , 2(11), ... and land cover change detection UsingRemoteSensing and GIS in Parts of Coimbatore and Tiruppur Districts, Tamil Nadu, India International Journal of RemoteSensing & Geoscience, 3(1), pp 15-20 ... limited when the remotesensing imagery contains haze or noise Therefore, imageries from Indian RemoteSensing Satellite (IRS) were visually and digitally interpreted by using the image interpretation...
... hyperspectral remotesensingdataIn our very first investigation in [21], we found that the use of kernel principal components as input to a neural network classifier leads to an improvement in classification ... kernels In the next section, the selection of a kernel adapted to hyperspectral remotesensingdata is discussed 3.3 KPCA Applied toRemoteSensingDataTo compute the KPCA, it is first necessary to ... nonlinear SVM 5.3.3 Washington DC The results are reported in Table 10 and the Z tests in Table 11 The ground truth of the Washington DC data sets is limited, resulting in a very small training...