However, the leachate characteristics were not influenced by amendment doses and no significant differences were observed in leachate composition (control and amended treatments) after 13 months.
In the core materials (5 to 10 cm in depth), the mineralogy was similar in both control and amended samples.
Non-contaminated soil (S) was used as control and amended with the same rate of HP, HP300 and HP500.
Nine months after the yearly sludge and mineral fertilizer applications, surface soil samples from control and amended soils were collected and analyzed for total organic C (TOC), total extractable C (TEC), and humified C fractions, both humic acid C (HAC) and fulvic acid C (FAC) fractions.
Amendment application led to differences between the solid phases of the efflorescent salts formed on the surface of the control and the amended treatments.
The amounts of various P fractions in the control and soils amended with either inorganic P fertilizer or turkey litter compost were analyzed after 1, 4, 8, 11, and 18 weeks by a sequential fractionation method.
We used primary hemocyte cultures prepared from fifth-instar tobacco hornworms, Manduca sexta in Boyden chambers to assess hemocyte migration toward buffer (negative control) and toward buffer amended with fMLP (positive control).
The Russian defense minister said today that although his government agreed with Washington that the United States and Russia faced new military threats, it continued to view the Antiballistic Missile Treaty as the foundation for modern arms control and sees no reason to amend it, as American officials have urged.
Hungary was at 23 last year, but fell 17 rungs "after adopting a law giving the ruling party direct control over the media and amending its constitution in December".
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