Crop performance and nitrogen use-efficiency in maize under conservation agriculture coupled with sub-surface drip fertigation

A field experiment was conducted in maize under medium-term conservation agriculture (CA) based maizewheat system at BISA-CIMMYT, Ladhowal, Punjab during kharif 2019 to assess the effect of CA+ practices (CA with sub-surface drip irrigation) with variable N doses on maize.The CA+ treatments were residue retained (WR) permanent bed (PB) with sub-sur

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Acoustic beta indices exhibited a weak correlation with both vocal species composition dissimilarity and environmental factors dissimilarity in a subtropical forest

Monitoring biodiversity through analyzing acoustic signals of ecosystems, as well as their relationship with environmental factors has garnered significant attention in fields like landscape ecology and biodiversity conservation.However, validation studies centered around only one of the acoustic diversities, the alpha index, while largely left out

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Sometimes Surgery is the Only Way to Make a Diagnosis and Treat the Patient: A Case of Congenital Partial Absence of Pericardium

Introduction: A 47-year-old Caucasian woman with a past medical history of multiple ablative procedures for supraventricular arrhythmias and pacemaker implantation presented with increasing shortness of breath.The initial working diagnosis of the team treating her was ablation-induced pulmonary stenosis, especially after the recording of increased

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