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I am trying to estimate phytate-P from soil by enzyme addition method. I consulted several papers and most of them had use malachite green for P determination. I followed the method described in...
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I am currently using methods from Sinsabaugh et al. 2005 to quantify POX and PER activity in soils. I have not however come across the equation needed to calculate activity as umol/h/g of dry...
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Remote Sensing soil moisture
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I've encountered a concentration of 91 mg/kg ds of fluoranthene and started to wander at what concentration the fluorescence under UV-ligth can be observed in a soilsample. Since the monster is in...
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Am looking at tubers and leafy vegetables in a contaminated soils
15 March 2018 6,663 8 View
We work on Watershed Development. Soak pit is an important treatment to filter and percolate wastewater (from kitchen, bathroom). In the terrain with black cotton soil and hard rock, water doesn't...
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Which constitutive model should used to define Bentonite sullary in pile construction stage ? Is that elastic or mohr-coloumn as bentonite like clay ? Also what the range of parameters should...
03 March 2018 2,648 2 View
Im interested in learning about the development of new soil sensors either in soil or mobile sensors. Im interested in sensors that measure either chemical, physical or biological soil properties....
03 March 2018 8,770 5 View
I am trying to create a (very approximative) model of a territory, focusing on the water balance. I have some different vegetation areas, taken from the Map of Natural Vegetation of Europe (by the...
03 March 2018 8,912 3 View
Pre-emergent herbicides kill weeds before emergence from soil whereas Post-emergent ones eradicate weeds that have already emerged from soil. What is better herbicide to use? pre-emergent or...
02 February 2018 4,483 24 View
I need to work with disinfected soil, does putting this soil in an autoclave make it lose these characteristics? Is there any other techniques to obtain disinfected soil, without any microorganism?
21 January 2018 3,655 14 View
The basic assumption of the function is that the soil was saturated and it's in drying process. This function should take in consideration texture properties and preferably SOM. If you know a...
15 January 2018 4,402 7 View
Dear sir, Kindly answer my question. I need it for my M.Sc research.
11 January 2018 2,322 5 View
Hello I want to know some information about the effect of capillary bridge on unsaturated artificially cemented soil's strength growth during curing ages under sealed condition, and also does...
01 January 2018 9,019 2 View
Hi, I am trying to simulate the instability of already existing erosion voids closer to defective buried pipes with the fluctuation of ground water table through the void using ANSYS. If I use...
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How to describe the hydro-geophysical properties related to Agriculture field or EMI surveys?
01 January 2018 8,229 0 View
Hello, Is there any established research or methodology to evaluate elementary knowledge of mass people on soils and soil conservation? I am highly interested to study peoples' general overview...
01 January 2018 560 5 View
What are the experimental/numerical procedure to determine the natural frequency of a shallow foundation system? what are the ranges for foundation resting on granular soil?
21 December 2017 948 3 View
Hi! I need to sterilize a big amount of soil in order to plant seeds inoculated with pgpr. The problem is that I have only an oven that can hold at the same time about 20 kg and go up to 200°C. I...
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Also Please suggest related research papers?
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In plaxis when doing dynamic analysis or liquefaction it is advised to do analysis in 1. Ko , initial phase 2. phase 1 with DIFFERENT SOIL characteristics and Phase 3 the dynamaic analysis with...
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