The Effect of Increasing Topsoil Disturbance on Surface-Active Invertebrate Composition and Abundance under Grazing and Cropping Regimes on Vertisols in North-West New South Wales, Australia

Agricultural intensification practices involve varying degrees of disturbance to the soil ecosystem.This study evaluated six agricultural management regimes with increasing levels of topsoil disturbance, on the composition and abundance of surface-active invertebrates on Vertisols at a sub-catchment scale.Two grazing (native and introduced pastures

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Non-destructive evaluation of the curing of a polybenzoxazine nanocomposite blend for space applications using fluorescence spectroscopy and predictive mechanical modelling

In this study, we employ fluorescence spectroscopy to monitor the curing process of a novel polybenzoxazine (PBZ) resin blend containing a polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane (POSS) purse reagent in a non-destructive way and compare it with the differential scanning calorimetry data.Our resin blend has been carefully selected for study on the Inte

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