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Soil and water conservation techniques are widely used to reduce water and soil loss through engineering, tillage and biological measures in TSA. The conservation objects of the techniques include sloping farmland, barren land and eroded gullies [30,31,32]....

Vetiver grass biomass production and decomposition were studied in three Australian soils....

This meta analysis found that creatine has a trivial effect on muscle growth. However, Greg Nuckles says that this study is actually saying that creatine helps you build muscle up to 1/3 faster....

Nonstandard work schedules such as shift work and night work tend to trigger problems for workers in different areas. To illustrate the diversity of areas affected and the relative interest of the scientific community, we conducted a literature review of the effects of shift work and night work on workers. In particular, we...

"In this paper, we analyse spatial variation in the Japanese dialectal lexicon by assembling a set of methodologies using theories in variationist linguistics and GIScience, and tools used in historical GIS. Based on historical dialect atlas data, we calculate a linguistic distance matrix across survey localities. The linguistic...

"The conservation of the genetic resources of old trees is crucial to their ecological role but is extremely difficult, especially for oak species (Quercus spp.) displaying recalcitrance in seed and vegetative propagation methods. Our study aimed to assess the regenerative potential of Quercus robur trees of different ages (up...