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Chapter and Conference Paper
Delayed Crack Instability of Concrete
A theory of delayed crack instability of viscoelastic bodies is outlined and is applied to concrete in this paper. Several rheologic models are recommended for the description of concrete. An approach for dete...
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Article
Resistance of wheat genotypes to boron toxicity is expressed at the cellular level
The effects of toxic boron (B) concentrations on the growth of wheat genotypes at organ level and cellular level were investigated using excised root culture techniques. At the organ level, wheat genotypes dif...
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Chapter
Effect of pH on Mn Absorption by Barley Genotypes in a Chelate-Buffered Nutrient Solution
A new chelate-buffering technique was used to investigate the effect of pH (6.00, 6.85 and 7.70) on manganese (Mn) absorption from nutrient solution by three genotypes of barley plants differing in Mn efficien...
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Effect of pH on Mn absorption by barley genotypes in a chelate-buffered nutrient solution
A new chelate-buffering technique was used to investigate the effect of pH (6.00, 6.85 and 7.70) on manganese (Mn) absorption from nutrient solution by three genotypes of barley plants differeing in Mn efficie...
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Chapter
HI-6 is Incapable of Reactivating Tabun-Phosphonylated Human Acetylcholinesterase
A 1:10 (w/v) ratio of human brain homogenate in phosphate buffer (67 mmol-L−1, pH 7.2) was respectively added to sarin or VX (50 nmol-L−1), tabun or soman (100 nmol-L−1). A 1:60 (v/v) ratio of human RBC suspensio...
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Factors affecting methane emission from rice paddies
A comparative study of rice paddies and the uncovered water field in Taoyuan(Hunan) showed that methane emission from rice-vegetated paddy fields in 1993 was different from that in 1992 (i. e., lower in rates ...
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Pot size affects expression of Mn efficiency in barley
Mn efficiency is defined here as an ability of a genotype to grow and yield well in a soil which is limiting in available Mn for a standard genotype (Graham, 1984). Screening for Mn efficiency in soil-based po...
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Chapter
Efficient Mn uptake in barley is a constitutive system
Mn-efficient barley genotypes can absorb more Mn from soil than Mn-inefficient genotypes. To examine whether this capability is induced only under Mn deficiency, two barley genotypes differing in Mn efficiency...
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On abiogenic natural gas
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Chapter
Acceleration of Oxime-Induced Reactivation of Organophosphate-Inhibited Acetylcholinesterase by Quaternary Ligands
Acute toxicity of organophosphate (OP) is attributed to irreversible inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE), via covalent linkage to γ-oxygen of the active-site serine. Reactivation of inhibited AChE by nuc...
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Article
Leakage of mantle helium from the Liaodong Peninsula, China
The isotopic cumpositions of helium have been investigated in hot spring gases sampled from the Liaodong Peninsula. China. The3He/4He ratios range from 0.14 Ra (0.14 times the atmospheric3He/4He ratio of 1.40 × 1...
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Mantle-derived methane homologue and helium in natural gas from Songliao Basin, China
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Mannosylerythritol lipid increases levels of galactoceramide in and neurite outgrowth from PC12 pheochromocytoma cells
We report here that a microbial extracellular glycolipid,mannosylerythritol lipid (MEL), induces the outgrowth ofneurites from and enhances the activity of acetylcholinesterase(AChE) in PC12 pheochromocytoma c...
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Induction of the differentiation of human HL-60 promyelocytic leukemia cell line by succinoyl trehalose lipids
Four analogs of succinoyl trehalose lipid-3 (STL-3)with saturated even-number or odd-number carbonchains, and unsaturated or halogenated fatty acidswere examined for their ability to inhibit the growthand indu...
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On γ-ray laser
We review various possibilities for realizing a γ-ray laser. We conclude that, similar to the free-electron laser, it is practical to generate the γ-ray laser by the stimulated emission of radiation from wiggl...
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Phosphorylation of Adenosine with Trimetaphosphate Under Simulated Prebiotic Conditions
The phosphorylation of adenosine withtrimetaphosphate in solution, in solid phase and usingwet-dry cycles was carried out and it was found thatwet-dry cycles were the most efficient. The catalytic effectsof so...
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Time-division phase modulated single-photon interference in a Sagnac interferometer
We introduce a stable, long-distance singlephoton Sagnac interferometer, which has a balanced configuration to efficiently compensate phase drift caused by change of the fiber-optic path. By using time-divisio...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Multiple-Dimension Scalable Adaptive Stream Architecture
Intensive processing applications, such as scientific computation, signal processing, and graphics rendering, motivate new processor architectures that place new burdens on the designer. These applications nam...
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Article
Quantum key distribution in 50-km optic fibers
In this paper, we report our recent experiment of long-distance fiber-optic “plug and play” quantum cryptography system wherein a Faraday-Mirror was used to compensate for the polarization mode dispersion and ...
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The Mann-Kendall Test Modified by Effective Sample Size to Detect Trend in Serially Correlated Hydrological Series
The non-parametric Mann-Kendall (MK) statistical test has been popularly used to assess the significance of trend in hydrological time series. The test requires sample data to be serially independent. When sam...
