Aims: To identify the specific routes of arsenic contamination in the soil at coal fired industrial area by using Chemical Mass Balance (CMB8). Study Design: The prime objectives of the study are: 1. Measuring the chemical composition of soil at different distance from the in...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/3742
The aim of this paper is to assess the full potentialities of spectroscopy techniques in the art work investigation and to explore the capabilities in the determination of the chemical and mineralogical composition of ancient pottery excavated from Kottapalayam village, Karur dis...
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Research Article10.9734/IRJPAC/2013/4280
It is considered that agrobiodiversity as a vital component for human food security is increasingly eroding and so making more attention to this section of biodiversity is necessary. This study was conducted in a protected area located in Kermanshah, Iran, in order to infer biodi...
World agriculture is facing a lot of challenges like producing 70% more food for an additional 2.3 billion people by 2050. However, the productivity of crops is not increasing in parallel with the food demand. The lower productivity is attributable to various abiotic stresses, of...
Aims: This study was conducted to evaluate the effect of irrigation intervals, potassium and zinc fertilizers treatments on fenugreek, Place and Duration of Study: The experiment was conducted in Agriculture and Natural Resources Research Center of Khorasan-e-Razavi, Mashhad, Ira...
The main aim of this review is to provide an overview of the foliar fertilization studies in Bulgaria, comparing them with current research trends and to indicate future benefits of foliar nutrient spray investigations and their importance for agronomic science and practice. The...
Aims: The present study was aimed at assessing the bioactivity of the HPLC fractions and peaks from egg-pod materials of the crowd-reared desert locust Schistocerca gregaria (Forskål) (Orthoptera: Acrididae) that elicited gregarious behaviour in the first-instar hatchlings derive...
A study was conducted to evaluate the effects of dietary inclusion of ground pits of date palm (DP) (Phoenix dactylifera) supplementing with a commercial probiotic mixture (Yeasture®) on the performance, egg quality characteristics, blood parameters, and excreta pH of laying hens...
Aims: Preliminary observations showed that 75 ìM PD98059 had a long-term effect on growth of maize seedlings. To verify and systemically analyze the effects of 75 ìM PD98059 on growth of maize seedlings, we designed and conducted this experiment. Methodology: We recorded and anal...
Aims: Vitis vinifera is a grape species and native to the Mediterranean region and east to northern Iran. The present research was carried out in greenhouse conditions to study the effects of four concentrations of indole-3-butyric acid (IBA) (0; 2000; 4000; and 6000 mg/l) and th...
Aims: To establish PCR procedures for detecting common transgenic elements from soy sauce samples. Methodology: Soy sauce samples, Haitian, Jiajia, Taitaile and Lijinji, and common transgenic elements from them, the CaMV35S promoter, the NOS terminator, and the Cp4-EPSPS, were ch...
Aim: The presence of HIV and pregnancy is a double insult on the health of mothers. Both of these have been associated with free radical injury. The aim was to determine levels of malondialdehyde and antioxidants of newly diagnosed HIV sero-positive pregnant women. Place and Dura...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/3884
Background/Aims: Cytomegalovirus is one of the opportunistic infections associated with significantly high morbidity and mortality among patients living with HIV/AIDS. Clinical manifestation of CMV infection is worse among HIV patients not receiving highly active antiretroviral t...
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Research Article10.9734/IJTDH/2013/4442
The problem of counter-current imbibition phenomenon in double immiscible phase (oil and water) flow through homogeneous porous medium in vertical downward direction has been discussed by developing its mathematical model and the solution of non linear partial differential equati...
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Research Article10.9734/BJMCS/2013/3367
Penicillin G acylase was immobilized onto iron oxide nanoparticles coated with polyethyleneimine and then cross linked with glutaraldehyde solution. The FTIR spectrum of immobilized enzyme showed peak at 1648cm-1 which can be attributed to the C=N bonds of Schiff’s base linkage f...