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Publisher
CRC Press
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Oceanography and Marine Biology: An Annual Review remains one of the most cited sources in marine science and oceanography. The ever-increasing interest in work in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues, especially global climate change and its impacts, creates a demand for authoritative refereed reviews summarizing and synthesizing the results of recent research. For more than 50 years, OMBAR has been an...
Publisher
Ubiquity Press
Language
English
Description
This book has been prepared with the aim to present the application of these two state-of-the art technologies in agricultural sciences and food technology, and to explain the protocols for analyses of different plant, animal, microbiological and food samples as well as for different biotechnology procedures. Selected methods and protocols which are used in plant stress physiology, weed science, fruit breeding research, microbial ecology, plant virus...
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Publisher
Apress Open
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Android on x86: an Introduction to Optimizing for Intel® Architecture serves two main purposes. First, it makes the case for adapting your applications onto Intel’s x86 architecture, including discussions of the business potential, the changing landscape of the Android marketplace, and the unique challenges and opportunities that arise from x86 devices. The fundamental idea is that extending your applications to support x86 or creating new ones...
Publisher
Institute of Network Cultures
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The Unlike Us Reader offers a critical examination of social media, bringing together theoretical essays, personal discussions, and artistic manifestos. How can we understand the social media we use everyday, or consciously choose not to use? We know very well that monopolies control social media, but what are the alternatives? While Facebook continues to increase its user population and combines loose privacy restrictions with control over data,...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Four low-cost organic soil amendments (chicken manure, CM; horse manure, HM; yard water, YW; and sewage sludge, SS) that are generated daily in large amounts, and native bare soil were planted with tomato (Solanum lycopersicum var. Mountain spring) seedlings of 52 days old in raised black plastic-mulch. Each of the 5 treatments was also mixed with biochar to make a total of 10 treatments in a randomized complete block design (RCBD). Results revealed...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
This chapter presents the experimental investigation and numerical simulation of micromembranes supported by serial‐parallel connected hinges. The micromembranes can be used in optical applications or as the flexible mechanical element in radio frequency microelectromechanical system switches. A method to determine the micromembrane stiffness is presented. Experimentally, the out‐of‐plane micromembranes deflection is performed using an atomic...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Pruning of fruit trees produces a great quantity of biomass each year that can be used for energy production. For this purpose, it is necessary to carry out an energy characterization of these pruned wastes, where the determination of heating value is significant. This value is usually measured by an adiabatic or isoperibolic calorimeter, which causes high economic costs and wastes time. The present study is focused on the development of indirect...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Although native Amazonian fruit tree species are important, few studies on the use of tissue
culture techniques for domesticating and improving these species exist. Research has
instead focused on developing protocols for the in vitro establishment of plants, and some
studies have examined somatic embryogenesis, immature embryo rescue, and germination
protocols for pollen grains as a basis for selective breeding programs.
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
An efficient control of the combustion process is required in order to comply with regulations on pollutant emissions from internal combustion engines. Literature presents investigations devoted to explore the potentiality of externally mounted sensor (speed sensor, microphone, and accelerometer) for combustion diagnosis. A relationship exists between the combustion event measured via an in‐cylinder pressure transducer and engine block vibration...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Carbon sequestration (CS) is an important strategy for the mitigation of climate change (CC) as well as for improving the soil fertility of agricultural soils. Carbon sequestration in crop lands and rangelands requires a certain amount of organic matter (OM) presence in the soil called soil organic matter (SOM). Organic amendments like animal and poultry manures, the incorporation of different crop residues, different types of compost, sugarcane bagasse,...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
We hypothesize that composting of biochar together with other biogenous materials containing labile organic matter and nutrients can be an appropriate tool to produce a substrate with similar properties as terra preta such as enhanced soil fertility and C sequestration. Current available literature will be reviewed on these aspects.
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
The research work was carried out with the objective to evaluate the effectiveness of the PAH
volatilization unit in reducing the PAH content in gasification residues. This objective was
chosen to better assess the environmental suitability of using gasification residues as soil
amendment. Our working hypothesis was that it is possible to technically reduce the PAH
content in gasification residues to a level which allows for an agricultural use of...
Publisher
MDPI
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Biomass can be converted to energy, biofuels, and bioproducts via thermochemical conversion processes, such as combustion, pyrolysis, and gasification. Combustion technology is most widely applied on an industrial scale. However, biomass gasification and pyrolysis processes are still in the research and development stage. The major products from these processes are syngas, bio-oil, and char (called also biochar for agronomic application). Among these...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Electroless metallic coating is referred as the deposition of a substrate material by the process of chemical or autocatalytic reduction of aqueous metal ions deposited to a substrate material without any external supply of power. Electroless nickel alloys are generally considered synonymous to the word “electroless coating” as ~90% of productions in industries are of this alloy coating. Rest of the electroless metallic coatings includes gold,...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Green poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)/cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs)/poly(vinylpyrrolidone) (PVP) composites were prepared via electrospinning technique. The use of PVP and/or CNCs improved the overall thermal stability and mechanical properties of the PEO fibers. A strong synergistic reinforcing effect was achieved when PVP polymer and CNCs were combined in the composite. This synergistic reinforcement was accompanied with the formation of unique fiber-bead-fiber...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Application of biochar has many benefits in agriculture, to understand benefits of biochar in crop production and remediation of heavy metal pollution, Asian lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) as an aquatic crop and Chinese sage (Salvia miltiorrhiza) as a traditional medicinal herb were used to evaluate biochar’s effects on plant growth and cadmium (Cd) accumulation in plants in the artificially Cd-polluted condition in containers. In both cases, adding biochar...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
In the development of the aluminum (Al) alloys continuous casting, the significant change was involved by replacing the mechanical contact between solidified molten metal and the mould’s wall with the electromagnetic force action. Here, the function of the strip’s surface shaping takes the special inductor known as the electromagnetic mould (EMM). The method for calculation the horizontal EMM’s parameters for continuous casting of the thin strip...
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Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Agronomic effects of SSB application to soils, therefore, widely vary depending on physicochemical properties of the sewage sludge, pyrolysis temperature, and soil properties, which need to be further clarified including the heavy metal dynamics in order for the SSB application to be broadly accepted in agricultural and horticultural practices. Therefore, objectives of this study were to 1) investigate the leachability of heavy metals, particularly...
Author
Publisher
IntechOpen
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
Pulsed electroacoustic (PEA) method, dielectric analyzer, and high resistance meter were used to research the DC breakdown, space charge behavior, permittivity, loss tangent, and volume resistivity of neat low density polyethylene (LDPE) and LDPE/MgO nanocomposites with concentration of 1, 3, and 5 wt% with and without the elongation ratio of 1.1. Results indicate that the DC breakdown strengths of neat LDPE and nanocomposites decrease after stretching....
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