A5084124189- Soil and Unsaturated Flow
- Electrocatalysts for Energy Conversion
- Irrigation Practices and Water Management
- Fuel Cells and Related Materials
- Groundwater flow and contamination studies
- Catalytic Processes in Materials Science
- Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
- Plant Water Relations and Carbon Dynamics
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Catalysts for Methane Reforming
- Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics
- Advanced battery technologies research
- Soil erosion and sediment transport
- Dam Engineering and Safety
- Brake Systems and Friction Analysis
- Rice Cultivation and Yield Improvement
- Greenhouse Technology and Climate Control
- Metal and Thin Film Mechanics
- Landslides and related hazards
- Gas Sensing Nanomaterials and Sensors
- Carbon dioxide utilization in catalysis
- Advancements in Solid Oxide Fuel Cells
- Agricultural Science and Fertilization
- Conducting polymers and applications
- ZnO doping and properties
University of Toyama
2013-2024
Tottori University
2010-2023
Keio University
2020-2023
Sumitomo Dainippon Pharma (Japan)
2014-2020
Nagaoka University of Technology
2008-2017
Karolinska Institutet
2015-2017
Nagaoka University
2008-2011
Kumamoto University
2010
Kyoto University
2002-2007
Kyoto Pharmaceutical University
2007
In this study, we performed a greenhouse experiment to investigate the effect of cow manure biochar on maize yield, nutrient uptake and physico-chemical properties dryland sandy soil. Biochar was derived from dry pyrolysed at 500 °C. Cow mixed with soil rate equivalent 0, 10, 15 20 t per hectare. Maize used as test crop. Results study indicated that contains some important plant nutrients which significantly affected crop growth. yield were improved increasing mixing rate. Application t/ha...
Increased levels of the pathogenic amyloid β-peptide (Aβ), released from its precursor by transmembrane protease γ-secretase, are found in Alzheimer disease (AD) brains. Interestingly, monoamine oxidase B (MAO-B) activity is also increased AD brain, but role pathogenesis not known. Recent neuroimaging studies have shown that MAO-B expression brain starts several years before onset disease. Here, we show a potential connection between MAO-B, γ-secretase and Aβ neurons.MAO-B...
Spinal cord injury (SCI) often results in various long-term sequelae, and chronically injured spinal cords exhibit a refractory feature, showing limited response to cell transplantation therapies. To our knowledge, no preclinical studies have reported treatment approach with surpassing those of comprising rehabilitation alone. In this study rats SCI, we propose novel combined therapy involving semaphorin 3A inhibitor (Sema3Ai), which enhances axonal regeneration, as the third element...
The HNK-1 carbohydrate epitope, a sulfated glucuronic acid at the non-reducing terminus of glycans, is expressed characteristically on series cell adhesion molecules and synthesized through key enzyme, glucuronyltransferase (GlcAT-P). We generated mice with targeted deletion GlcAT-P gene. −/− exhibited normal development gross anatomical features, but adult mutant reduced long term potentiation Schaffer collateral-CA1 synapses defect in spatial memory formation. This first evidence that loss...
Solutes spread relative to the mean displacement position during water flow in soils as a result of meandering through (partially) saturated pore complex. Spreading is characterized by hydrodynamic dispersion coefficient convection-dispersion equation (CDE). This has been extensively studied for soils. In this study coefficients nonaggregated dune sand were determined function volumetric contents, θ, ranging from saturation 0.08 cm3cm−3 columns 5-cm diam. and 25- 40-cm length. Unit-gradient...
Soil degradation has been a very serious problem for sustainable production, especially by re-cropping of greenhouse-cultivated cucumber (Cucumis statirus L.). The aim this research was to expound the actuality soil degradation, at same time, put forward some suggestion preventing from and maintain production in greenhouse basic on two experiments conducted solar during 2001-2008 suburb area Yan'an, Shaanxi province North China. result shown that fruit productivity increased as increasing...
Evaporation from the soil surface is a major cause of salinization irrigated soils in arid and semiarid regions. To optimize irrigation scheduling under saline conditions, it essential to be able accurately predict solute transport evaporation rate. We conducted laboratory column experiments constant meteorological except for radiation, which was automatically regulated such that temperature remained same as air. The concentration initial solution inflowing water bottom 5.2‐cm‐long were set...
ABSTRACT Soil salinity is a major abiotic factor limiting crop production but an amendment with synthetic zeolite may mitigate effects of stress on plants. The objective the study was to determine soil properties and growth barley irrigated diluted seawater. Barley raised sand dune treated calcium type at rate 1 5% every alternate day seawater electrical conductivity (EC) levels 3 16 dS m−1. Irrigation m−1 saline water significantly suppressed plant height by 25%, leaf area 44% dry weight...
The objective of this research was to compare the potential native plants for phytoaccumulation heavy metals (HM). Thirteen predominant plant species (including trees, bushes and grasses) namely Ricinus communis, Ipomoea carnea, Cannabis sativa, Parthenium hysterophorus, Acacia nilotica, Dalbergia sissoo, modesta, Solanum nigrum, Xanthium stromarium, Chenopodium album, Cynodon dactylon, Eleusine indica, Dactyloctenium aegyptium were collected from wastewater originated Hattar industrial...
Estimation of the retention and unsaturated hydraulic conductivity functions is essential to effectively provide input for water flow transport simulation prediction. A parameter optimization procedure shown as a promising tool estimate inversely these function parameters from transient soil matric potential cumulative solution extraction measurements. Sensitivity analyses synthetic data generated forward numerical model simulations showed that optimum tensiometer locations will depend on...
In this paper, we describe our electrochemical investigation of platinum degradation in concentrated sulfuric acid. The Pt electrode weight is found to decrease by an alternating potential cycle between <−0.5 V vs Ag2SO4 and >+0.5 Ag/Ag2SO4. No marked occurs excluding the former or latter region. Also, reactions that participate dissolution occur two regions were studied a rotating ring−disk (RRDE) method. obtained voltammogram indicates (i) electrodeposition sulfur at Ag/Ag2SO4, (ii)...
Dielectric sensors have been widely used for nondestructive determination of volumetric soil water content (θ, m 3 −3 ). Since the output such is affected by temperature ( T , °C), calibration effect indispensable accurate θ. The objectives this paper were (i) evaluation effects on outputs commercial capacitance probes called ECH 2 O various types soils, and (ii) to include in empirical equations. Laboratory experiments performed obtain probe at (5– 35°C) θ (air‐dry– near‐saturation), using...
In this work, we introduce a water electrolysis and CO2 hydrogenation tandem system which focuses on methane generation. The concept consists of electrolyzer thermally coupled to reactor, where the power required generate hydrogen comes from renewable energy. A thermodynamic analysis was carried out. Our exposes that it is possible increase exergy efficiency by thermal coupling, energy split into H2 O2 during process compensated heat generated reaction. Here, conditions at high can be...
Abstract The greatest fear of global climate change is drought. World‐wide, 61% countries receive rainfall less than 500 mm annually; domestication wheat first occurred in such a semiarid region southwestern Asia, and it seems that foods originally came from dryland gardens. Wheat plants respond to drought through morphological, physiological metabolic modifications all plant parts. At the cellular level, responses water deficit may result cell damage, whereas other correspond adaptive...
The electrochemical dissolution of the Pt cathode catalyst, which determines lifetime polymer electrolyte fuel cells (PEFCs), has been studied. A newly developed solid-state cell, consisted a Nafion membrane sandwiched by Pt/C-based catalyst layers, was employed for measurement. When humidified O2 and H2 gases were supplied to working counter electrodes, respectively, surface area (ESA) decreased during potential cycle 20 h. highest rate ESA decrease recorded an alternating between (i)...
To substitute for petroleum, Fischer-Tropsch synthesis (FTS) is an environmentally benign process to produce synthetic diesel (n-paraffin) from syngas. Industrially, the gasoline (iso-paraffin) can be produced with a FTS followed by isomerization and hydrocracking processes over solid-acid catalysts. Herein, we demonstrate cobalt nano-catalyst synthesized physical-sputtering method that metallic nano-particles homogeneously disperse on H-ZSM5 zeolite support weak Metal-Support Interactions...