thermal power stationsIn India, about 70% of the electrical power is generated by coal based thermal power stations. As a result, huge amount of coal fly ash is produced, a part of which is used for making bricks for construction purposes. Since fly ash contains measurable quantity of radio...
Host plants in the native and invaded range The host range ofA. bungiifalls predominantly within the Rosaceae family (Table1), but with particular preference towards the genusPrunus(Wang et al.2007; Iwata2018). However, it is possible that the reported preference forPrunusis an artefact of bia...
The natural hydrological regime of the Cetina River has changed significantly since the 1960s with the construction of hydroelectric power plants (HEPP) and artificial lakes (Fig. 1). Especially in the last 40 km (the type locality), the regime has moderated, showing less seasonal variation19. ...
The soil type most common to the grasslands is known as “mollisols” and most of the naturally existing grasslands have been converted into the agricultural fields, for the proper growth and development of plants in the United States. This type of soil has dark colored surface which tends to...
June 1, 2020 -- Seamless Microsystems, the leader in state-of-the-art analog and mixed-signal designs, signed a key agreement with one of the world’s leading systems-engineering companies. As part of this agreement, Seamless Microsystems will build high-performance Analog-to-Digital Converters...
Waste to energy plants emits 47 Mt CO2each year,58and as the ashes generated tend to be reactive to CO2to a lesser or greater degree, there is potential to mineralise these ashes to manufacture value-added products. In Europe, biomass waste arising from straw and other cereal and oil crops...
Jacqueline Fernandez Is an angel for animals in new PETA India adoption campaign Urban middle class ‘shrinking’, when will PM recognise this reality: Congress A small film with a big heart, Left Unsaid, a Portuguese film makes world premiere at 55th IFF...
as clearly stated by Pless-Mulloli et al.:“areas closest to steel and chemical plants at the time of study were also close 40 years earlier, an important consideration given the long latency of lung cancer”[19]. However, this requires the assumption that people were also living in the ...
A recombination bin-map identified a major QTL for resistance to Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus in peanut (Arachis hypogaea) Josh Clevenger, Sandip M. Kale, Hui Wang, Manish K. Pandey, Divya Choudhary, Mei Yuan, Xingjun Wang, Albert K. Culbreath,...
Combustion of coals in thermal power plants is one of the major sources of environmental pollution due to generation of huge amounts of ashes, which are disposed off in large ponds in the vicinity ...