MICROBIAL COMMUNITY DIVERSITIES AND TAXA ABUNDANCES IN SOILS ALONG A SEVEN-YEAR GRADIENT OF POTATO MONOCULTURE USING HIGH THROUGHPUT PYROSEQUENCING APPROACH.

Microbial community diversities and taxa abundances in soils along a seven-year gradient of potato monoculture using high throughput pyrosequencing approach.

BACKGROUND: Previous studies have focused on linking soil community structure, diversity, or specific taxa to disturbances.Relatively little attention has been directed to crop monoculture soils, particularly potato monoculture.Information about microbial community changes over time between monoculture and non-monoculture treatments is lacking.Furt

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Design of a Bearingless Outer Rotor Induction Motor

A bearingless induction (BI) motor with an outer rotor for flywheel energy storage systems is proposed due to the perceived advantages of simple rotor structure, non-contact support and high speed operation.Firstly, the telemarkskongen flue configuration and operation principle of the proposed motor are described.Then several leading dimensional pa

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An Efficient Compound Image Compression Using Optimal Discrete Wavelet Transform and Run Length Encoding Techniques

Reduction in file size leads to reduction in the number of bits required to store it.When data is compressed, it must be decompressed into its original form bit for bit.Compound images are defined as images that contain a combination of text, natural (photo) images and graphic images.Here, compression is the process of reducing the amount of data r

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Global Theme Issue: Poverty and Human Development The effect of poverty on access to oral health care in Nigeria

Nigeria is a country with a population of over 140 million people (1).Over 60% of Nigerians live in rural areas.Poverty is especially severe in rural areas where social services and infrastructure are limited or non existent.Africa is the continent where the poorest people in the world live.Nigeria is the most populous black African country where a

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