Does soil moisture percent sensors on weight basis provides records on soil wet weight or soil dry weight ?

Suppose a soil moisture content percentage sensor records measurements based on water and soil weight (g) basis. What is more logical ? Is to give records on dry weight or wet weight basis? and why?

31 December 2018 2,376 4 View

Is the absence of public extension based on training & field visits helpful expanding private extension input supply system ?

The possession of private extension system in agricultural socities is one of the cons resulted out of lack of public extension system. Who agree with this truth? and why ?

04 May 2018 9,693 0 View

What is the difference between soil moisture content percent as a weight ratio to total soil weight ?

Dividing soil water weight by total weight of soil and its water gives soil moisture content percent. How to convert the latter to volumetric form ? How to convert it to represent a field capacity...

03 April 2018 428 0 View

How is the value of a journal indexed in ICI ?

Indexed Copernicus International data base. Does it has a good impact and reputation to submit articles ? Please advise.

03 April 2018 3,376 7 View

Which is the best reference to depend upon for journals honest and rank ? Beall's or Publons's lists ? and Why ?

Beall's list just call a predatory or not predator. However, publons's gave a rank based on history. I found a big gap between two lists. Which is the best to depend on and why ?

10 November 2017 5,091 7 View

What are the major aspects of climate change in your country ?

Let us to know a specific answer about your country.

10 November 2017 2,982 9 View

Is seed size inversley related to seed mass ?

Physically the density of something absolutley related positiveley to its mass. Does that also could be generalized for seeds ? Put in consider that mass and size are inversley related...

10 November 2017 571 0 View

How to detect forged data papers?

I think that a lot of papers written and published in midle east and north Africa were forged previously. Some researchers are crazy to the hell ! We just evalute journals. But, what about writers...

09 October 2017 2,607 10 View

What is the difference between science and innovation ?

Natural sciences like physics, mathematics , biology, chemistry, botany, and pedology are basic sciences.but, computer and engineering are outputs or innovations. How can we determine major...

09 October 2017 1,765 8 View

What are the differences between modeling and simulation ?

Based on mathematical uses of formulas in science. How can i discriminate between simulation and modeling terms ? Especially in writing papers. Please, advise.

08 September 2017 4,651 13 View

Chlorinated organic formation in odor control scrubbers using hypochlorite?

I'm involved in a study of odor control technologies for municipal wastewater treatment plant. One of the control options involves a chemical 2-stage (acid/alkaline) packed bed scrubber. The...

03 March 2021 3,661 2 View

Ester cleavage conditions?

Hi all, I need to cleave the ester in Ethyl 2-amino-1H-imidazole-5-carboxylate to make the carboxylic acid and retrieve the product from solution to use in downstream applications of linking to...

01 March 2021 8,766 3 View

Which cell line should we use to perform biological dosimetry experiments?

We are preparing some experiments based on irradiating cells under different conditions in order to evaluate the effects in terms of DNA damage, genetic expression, etc. As our project is...

01 March 2021 3,355 3 View

Isolates of Hymenoscyphus fraxineus?

Dear Dr. Cai, my name is Simone Prospero and I work in the team of Phytopathology at the Swiss Federal Institute for Forest Snow and Landscape Research (WSL;...

01 March 2021 1,133 1 View

How to eliminate Steady state error from Reinforcement learning genetic algorithm code?

The following code (see 1st 2 images attached) is used to produce PID controller values that are designed to control the system (G). The code finds the PID controller values (noted as k) by using...

28 February 2021 6,560 14 View

LEDs on Vis Light photo degradation of MB water sol via N doped TiO2 in a mini flume?

Good day to all, I have no experience with light emitting diodes. I am building a glass mini flume to demonstrate the photo degradation of Methylene Blue in water running over self cleaning...

26 February 2021 4,026 5 View

CGA 300 Regulator for CO2 cylinder?

Has anyone ever tried to deliver CO2 with a CGA 300 regulator? I know that a CGA 320 regulator is standard for CO2. The issue is that I currently do not have any free CGA 320 regulators. I also...

25 February 2021 3,292 3 View

How can we theoretically calculate Elemental analysis(percentage) of atoms in covalent organic framework?

For example in one research article the Elemental analysis values of COF-TpPa-1 ( Triformylphloroglucinol (Tp) (63 mg, 0.3 mmol), Paraphenylenediamine (Pa-1) (48 mg, 0.45 mmol) are as follows...

24 February 2021 1,265 6 View

How to interpolate from a time-series database ?

Hi, I am having trouble with a problem, in the field of Optimal Control and the generation of optimal time-series. Let's consider a system, whose dynamics are represented by dx/dt =...

24 February 2021 9,105 2 View

How to Control Whiteflies in coconut leaves?

24 February 2021 1,005 1 View