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Fertilizers Affect Water and Substrate EC, pH, and Nutritional Concentrations for Nelumbo Production
(2012-05-04)
Sacred Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.) is an aquatic, herbaceous perennial considered to be one of the most valuable plants in the world. Each part of lotus is consumed throughout Asia for food or used for medicinal ...
Fiber and protein degradation characteristics of stockpiled Tifton 85 bermudagrass
(2016-07-27)
A 2-yr study was conducted to determine effects of rate of N fertilization on kinetic parameters of fiber digestion and protein degradability in stockpiled Tifton 85 bermudagrass. Six 0.76-ha pastures of stockpiled Tifton ...
Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strengthening of War Memorial Bridge—Installation, Load Testing, and Analysis
(2005-12-15)
An assessment of the rehabilitation of a reinforced-concrete bridge using carbon fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) laminate materials is presented. The installation of FRP strips to girder bottoms in the positive moment section ...
Fibroblast Growth Factor-21 (FGF21) in Domestic Cats
(2023-04-26)
Fibroblast growth factors (FGFs) are a group of structurally homologous yet functionally pleiotropic proteins. Unlike canonical and intracellular FGFs, the FGF19 subfamily, which includes FGF15/19, FGF21, and FGF23, act ...
Fiction Stir Welding of 5083-H131 Aluminum Alloy using A2 and H13 Tool Steels or 420 Stainless Steel Tooling
(2014-12-09)
Friction Stir Welding (FSW) is a solid state welding method developed by The Welding Institute. The process is environmentally friendly, highly repetitive and easily adapted to manufacturing geometries. New welding schedules ...
Fiducial Marker-Based Motion Capture System for Biomechanics and Lower Limb Prosthesis Alignment
(2019-07-15)
Lower limb loss is a disability that is currently estimated to affect more than one million Americans. Development of lower limb prostheses has allowed the amputee to regain their mobility to some extent and reengage in ...
Field Aligned Currents Derived from Pressue Profiles Obtained from TWINS ENA Images
(2017-08-21)
Field aligned currents (FACs) are an important mechanism coupling the Earth's magnetosphere and ionosphere. The Two Wide-Angle Imaging Neutral-atom Spectrometers (TWINS) mission is the first stereoscopic neutral atom ...
Field and laboratory investigations of groundwater arsenic sequestration in biogenic pyrite at an industrial site in Florida
(2020-05-07)
Pumping groundwater from arsenic-contaminated aquifers has exposed millions of people around the world to high and potentially deadly doses of the contaminant. Moreover, developing countries lack the resources and technology ...
Field Assessment of Cold Recycling Technologies Used for Pavement Preservation
(2020-07-14)
Cold recycling of asphalt concrete pavements is a widely practiced technique used to prolong pavement life as a low-cost preservation method. Research in recycled materials has become necessary to further evaluate the ...
Field Evaluation of Near-Surface Mounted, Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Strips for Strengthening of a Continuous Reinforced Concrete Bridge
(2016-04-27)
The Letohatchee bridge is a continuous, reinforced concrete, deck-girder bridge maintained by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) along AL 97 over I-65 near Letohatchee, Alabama. The bridge is deficient in ...
Field Investigations and SWMM Modeling of an Undeveloped Headwaters Catchment Located in the Lower Coastal Plain Region of the Southeast USA
(2013-11-05)
The southeastern region of the United States is host to a diverse variety of geophysical regions including the Blue Ridge, Piedmont, Inland Basins and Coastal Plains. Each region shows its own distinctive set of hydrological ...
Field Studies and Monitoring of Mosquito Populations (Diptera:Culicidae) in Urban Envrionments
(2005-12-15)
In 2004 and 2005 field work was conducted to survey and monitor larval and adult mosquito populations in urban habitats with, primary interest in Aedes albopictus, the Asian tiger mosquito.
In 2004 and 2005 a state-wide ...
Field-Based Strain Thresholds for Flexible Perpetual Pavement Design
(2009-05-15)
In the recent years, there has been a push towards designing roadways which will sustain 50 years of trafficking without having any structural fatigue damage. These --Y´perpetual pavements¡ are designed using mechanisti ...
Field-Orientation Control of Three-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor Control under healthy and open-circuit fault Conditions
(2024-04-19)
Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are widely used due to their simple structure, high performance, and simple control strategies. Over the years, several control techniques have been developed in motor control, ...
"Fiery Trials:" Women and the Civil War in East Tennessee, 1850-1865
(2020-11-17)
This dissertation examines East Tennessee’s white women and their role within the Civil War. Women, often portrayed as passive victims to the violent climate, remain minor characters in Appalachian and more specifically ...
The Fifth Border State: Slavery and the Formation of West Virginia, 1850-1868
(2014-06-30)
Civil War historians unfairly treat West Virginia as an oddity. They tend to see it as the dissident part of Virginia that resisted its secession in 1861 to protest decades of economic neglect. Some explain this process ...
Fighting Culture: Class and the Early English Boxing Novel in Late Victorian Society
(2013-12-19)
The early English boxing novel emerges at a critical point in the wider culture of
transition that typifies the later Victorian age in England. Evidencing the emergence of an
increasingly populist literature and popular ...
The Fighting Five-Tenth: One Fighter-Bomber Squadron's Experience during the Development of World War II Tactical Air Power
(2013-12-04)
During the years between World War I and World War II, many within the Army Air Corps (AAC) aggressively sought an independent air arm and believed that strategic bombardment represented an opportunity to inflict severe ...
Filament Morphology in Highly Magnetized Capacitively Coupled Low Temperature Plasmas
(2023-08-04)
Due to the small charge-to-mass ratio of dust particles, it is often necessary to use large magnetic fields of B ≥ 1 T, in order to observe the influence of magnetic forces in laboratory dusty plasmas. However, when ...
Filamentation and Formation of Imposed Patterns in Low-Pressure Magnetized Electric Discharges: A Numerical Approach
(2020-08-03)
Presence of strong magnetic fields (B ≥ 1.0 T) in magnetized dusty plasma experiments can result in a variety of phenomena in the background plasma and in the dust cloud. In the background plasma, the magnetic field induces ...