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More than a princess
Aislin of Eliasind must rely on more than the magical gifts she has as a half-fairy, half-pedrasi when she becomes entangled in a sinister plot and saddled with difficult human princesses.
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Models for relating pH measurements in water and calcium chloride for a wide range of pH, soil types and depths
Soil pH is commonly measured in water (pHw) or 0.01 M CaCl2 (pHCa). The need to convert between these methods has led to the publication of linear, quadratic and cubic polynomial relationships for limited suites of soils. Concerns over the applicability of such relationships when mapping a wide range of soils and pH led to the establishment of a database of pHW and pHCa values on each of 7894 samples from soil survey and field experimental sites in Queensland. The relationship between pHW and pHCa across all soils was investigated and preliminary results examining the effect of soil depth and soil type on the relationship are presented. For all soils and depths, a linear regression accounted for 93.2% of the variation but did not predict pHCa well at very high or low pHW values. The inclusion of second and third powers of pHW accounted for significantly more of the variation (R2=0.94) in pHCa and the resultant curve matched the data better at high and low pH. Analysis of surface, sub-surface and subsoil groupings did not reveal any appreciable differences in the relationship between pHW and pHCa attributable to depth. In contrast, differences in the relationship were evident between soil types. Generally, the mildly leached soils had linear relationships, while the weathered soils were distinctly curvilinear at low pH.
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The truest heart
Cory Feathering has abandoned the tooth fairy guild she was born into in favor of choosing her own path as a matchmaker, and now decides to fight for what she believes in by helping Mary Lambkin find true love.
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Adaptation of Vesicular-Arbuscular Mycorrhizae to Edaphic Factors
In three field soils, birdsfoot trefoil (Lotus corniculatus L.) transplants infected with mycorrhizal fungi from 42 soils showed no clear superiority of strains from these individual soils after a year's growth. Differences among strains decreased with time and were only significant for all three soils at the first cutting. There were low-level correlations between yield and various chemical properties of the soils from which the cultures were derived. In the greenhouse, with sterilized soils low in P, trefoil yield was always greatest when the inoculum used was indigenous to the soil in which the plants were grown as compared to inocula from five different soils. These results suggest that indigenous strains of mycorrhizal fungi may possess an adaptation to edaphic factors and that the performance and persistence of strains otherwise more efficient in nutrient uptake may be limited by their lack of adaptation.
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The frog princess returns
Prince Eadric, having been turned from a frog into a human again, is still in Greater Greensward where, because the Fairy Queen has disappeared, dangerous foes are threatening, so Emma must use her knowledge and magic to restore order.
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The princess and the pearl
When Princess Annie's father and uncle fall ill, Annie and Liam must set sail on dangerous seas full of sea monsters and magical creatures to find the only cure, a giant pearl.
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Advances in agricultural nutrient runoff controls
Progress has been relatively slow for reducing nitrate and phosphate losses from the Susquehanna River Watershed to the Chesapeake Bay. It was initially recognized that farmers on the well drained limestone soils of Southeastern Pennsylvania, especially Lancaster County, were land applying excessive N and P in the form of manures and commercial fertilizers. The objective of the authors has been to define “the greatest agricultural production experiment of the century”. The farmers combined manures and commercial fertilizers on these lands over a period of 20 years and experienced a two fold increase in yields of different crops. While it has been relatively easy to convince the farmers to stop applying commercial fertilizers, reductions in nutrient loadings via a reduction in animal numbers per acre or per farm has not occurred. The authors and others have not proposed a reduction in dairy cows per acre because such reductions would not allow these producers to remain in business, and if we can't explain how these farmers were so successful in increasing production, we have little justification for asking that they be denied the technology they have developed. The data summarized below serve to justify the need for a program to increase cellulose and lignin carbon as bedding or direct application to land to increase the water holding capacities of the soils and immobilize an acceptable excess amount of manure N applied.
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Princess before dawn
Annie and Liam call on their friends Francis and Zoe to help when a strange group visits Treecrest and takes over the hunting grounds.
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