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Natural Resources (NR) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in natural resources throughout the world. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and engineers (on all academic and professional levels) all over the world to promote, discuss and share various new issues…
Théophile Lealea, Réné Tchinda
The successful design and effective utilization of solar energy systems and devices for application in various facets of human endeavors, such as power and water supply for industrial, agricultural and domestic uses, largely depend on the availability of info…
Richard Y. M. Kangalawe, James G. Lyimo
Climate change is a global challenge to both sustainable livelihoods and economic development. In Tanzania as in most African countries, farming depends almost entirely on rainfall, a situation that makes agriculture and thus rural livel i hoods especially in…
Federico Hahn
Mexico is the largest cactus exporter of the world and 40% of the production cost is provide d from the harvest operation. Many workers are required to operate daily and suffer wrist pain after two weeks of collecting pears with mechanical pruners. A motor dr…
Valeriy Rudenko, Myroslav Zayachyk, Mariya Palamaryuk
Method of nature-resource potential cost revaluation is suggested. The method proceeds from natural crop yield of Ukrainian lands provided that crops rotation is observed and lands are operated only mechanically with the use of no fertilizer. Nature-resource…
Ian Chan, Asha Srinivasan, Ping H. Liao, Kwang V. Lo, Donald S. Mavinic, Jim Atwater, James R. Thompson
This study was undertaken to evaluate the efficiency of a liquid-solids separation process and microwave pretreatment, as well as anaerobic biodegradability of microwave pretreated dairy manure. Liquid-solids separation of raw dairy ma nure resulted in solid…
Carlos I. Cabrera, Julio C. Rimada, Maykel Courel, Luis Hernandez, James P. Connolly, Agustín Enciso, David A. Contreras-Solorio
The inability of a single-gap solar cell to absorb energies less than the band-gap energy is one of the intrinsic loss mechanisms which limit the conversion efficiency in photovoltaic devices. New approaches to “ ultra-high ” efficiency solar cells include de…
Teresa Cerchiara, Giuseppe Blaiotta, Vittoria S. Straface, Emilia Belsito, Angelo Liguori, Barbara Luppi, Federica Bigucci, Giuseppe Chidichimo
In this study, antimicrobial, antioxidant and cytotoxic activities of Spartium junceum L. aromatic water (SJAW), ob tained by vacuum process distillation, were investigated. Antimicrobial activity of SJAW was evaluated against fungal organisms, Gram-positive…
Horacio Toniolo, Dragos Vas, Peter Prokein, Richard Kenmitz, Erica Lamb, Dave Brailey
This article presents results from a broad field campaign involving discharge and surface-water slope measurements, water sampling, and longitudinal river-bed profile surveys. During the spring breakup of 2011, fieldwork was carried out in several pristine st…
Roger F. Walker
Selected fertilizer formulations were assessed for their capacity to enhance growth and nutrition of Jeffrey pine ( Pinus jeffreyi Grev. & Balf.) seedlings on an acidic and possibly toxic Sierran surface mine when applied three years after planting. In a stud…
Catherine Hearst, David Nelson, Graham McCollum, Shekhar Sharma, Juluri R. Rao
In vitro Kirby-Bauer disc-diffusion assays coupled with bio-imaging software techniques were used to assess native forest dwelling “fairy ring” forming fungi ( Clitocybe nebularis ) and co-habitant forest tree-root colonising non pathogenic, antibiotic produc…
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