Biostimulant Application Alleviates the Negative Effects of Deficit Irrigation and Improves Growth Performance, Essential Oil Yield and Water-Use Efficiency of Mint Crop

The scarcity of water is limiting crop production and is one of the most important stressors that severely affects crop yield, and it may also decrease the quality of the final products.Most of the medicinal and aromatic plants are considered resilient to water stress and constitute a sustainable choice for crop production in arid and semiarid cond

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Extra-legislative Functions of Second Chambers in Federal Systems

Discussions regarding the functional design of second chambers in federal or quasifederal LONG AND CURL MASCA systems seem to focus mainly on legislative functions.Thus, extra- or nonlegislative functions related to the executive branch or the judiciary have been rather neglected in the literature.This paper will examine the extra-legislative funct

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Experimental investigation of the effect of processing parameters on densification, microstructure and hardness of selective laser melted 7075 aluminium alloy

The 7075 aluminum alloy of the 7xxx series largely used for structures in modern aircraft has been successfully fabricated using selective laser melting (SLM) technology.The morphology of the initial 7075 aluminum alloy powders was characterized by a Zeiss Evo 50 Scanning Climbers electron microscope (SEM).Energy Dispersive x-ray (EDX) spectrometer

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