Accurate and nondestructive methods to determine individual leaf areas of plants are a useful tool in physiological and
agronomic research. Determining the individual leaf area (LA) of rose (Rosa hybrida L.) involves measurements of leaf
parameters such as length (L) and width (W), or some combinations of these parameters. Two-year investigation was
carried out during 2007 (on thirteen cultivars) and 2008 (on one cultivar) under greenhouse conditions, respectively, to
test whether a model could be developed to estimate LA of rose across cultivars. Regression analysis of LA vs. L and W
revealed several models that could be used for estimating the area of individual rose leaves. A linear model having L×W
as the independent variable provided the most accurate estimate (highest r2, smallest MSE, and the smallest PRESS) of
LA in rose. Validation of the model having L×W of leaves measured in the 2008 experiment coming from other cultivars
of rose showed that the correlation between calculated and measured rose LA was very high. Therefore, this model can
estimate accurately and in large quantities the LA of rose plants in many experimental comparisons without the use of
any expensive instruments
The biological degradation of solid fatty residues is limited by their low bioavailability. In this work, the effect of the day mineral bentonite on the degradation of hexane extractable matter and its conversion to volatile fatty acids was investigated. Our results showed that the best performance in the elimination of hexane extractable matter (73% +/- 2.5) and the production of volatile fatty acids (39% +/- 1.5) were observed in continuous experimental assays with a bentonite/greases ratio of 0.9. Isotherm studies showed that the sorption equilibria of oleate on bentonite and sludge could be described by the LANGMUIR model.
Inverse gas chromatography (IGC) at infinite dilution is a powerful technique to characterize the superficial and interfacial properties of solid substrates as oxides, polymers or polymers adsorbed on oxides. It can also be used to determine the physicochemical properties and the transition phenomena of polymers. In this paper, IGC was used to determine the changes, as a function of temperature, of the specific free enthalpy DG a SP and deduce the specific entropy DS a SP of poly (methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) adsorbed on alumina or on silica for different tacticities of PMMA. The study of the surface properties of PMMA/SiO 2 and PMMA/Al 2 O 3 , revealed an important difference in the physicochemical behaviour of oxides covered by various concentrations of PMMA. This study also highlighted an important effect of the tacticity of the polymer on the specific entropy of PMMA adsorbed on oxides.
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