Application of biochar to landfill cover soils can purportedly improve methane (CH4) oxidation rates. However, understanding of the combined effects of soil texture, compaction, and biochar on activity and composition...
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Application of biochar to landfill cover soils can purportedly improve methane (CH4) oxidation rates. However, understanding of the combined effects of soil texture, compaction, and biochar on activity and composition of the methanotrophs is limited. The amendment of wood biochar on two differently textured landfill cover soils at three compaction levels of the Proctor density were explored by analyzing changes in soil physical properties relevant to methane oxidation, the effects on CH4 oxidation rates and on the composition of the methanotrophic community. Loose soils with and without biochar were pre-incubated to equally elevate the CH4 oxidation rates. Hereafter, soils were compacted and re-incubated. Methane oxidation rates, gas diffusivity, water retention characteristics and pore size distribution were analyzed on the compacted soils. Abundance of methanotrophic bacteria (MOB) was determined at the end of both the pre-incubation tests and the incubation tests of the packed samples. Biochar significantly increased porosity at all compaction levels, resulting in enhanced diffusion coefficients. Also, a re-distribution in pore sizes was observed. Increased gas diffusivity from low compaction and amendment of biochar, however, did not reflect higher methane oxidation rates due to high diffusive oxygen fluxes over the limited height of the compacted soil specimens. All soils, with and without biochar, were strongly dominated by type II methanotrophs. In the sandy soil, biochar amendment strongly increased MOB abundance, which could be attributed to a corresponding increase in the abundance of Methylocystis species, while in the clayey soil no such response was observed. Compaction did not change the community composition in either soil. Biochar addition to landfill cover soils may not always enhance methanotrophic activity and hence reduce fugitive methane emissions with the effect being soil-specific. However, especially in finer and more compacted soils, biochar
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The Fermi-Hubbard model, a fundamental framework for studying strongly correlated phenomena could significantly benefit from quantum simulations when exploring non-trivial settings. However, simulating this problem re...
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Detecting and interpreting individual acoustic cues to identify features that distinguish among speech sounds plays a key role in modeling human speech perception. The individual acoustic cues form a bridge between tr...
Detecting and interpreting individual acoustic cues to identify features that distinguish among speech sounds plays a key role in modeling human speech perception. The individual acoustic cues form a bridge between transcription using phonemes and raw acoustic measurements from the signal, and they capture systematic language-related differences in how words are produced in different contexts. This study proposes and evaluates a Gaussian Mixture Model-based algorithm that predicts the presence of cues to phonation events from waveform analysis. This GMM-based approach to acoustic cue detection has the advantage that it can be directly integrated in current models of human speech perception.
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In this paper, we investigate the problem that asks if there exists a net of a polycube that is exactly a rectangle with slits. For this nontrivial question, we show affirmative solutions. First, we show some concrete...
A qubit lattice algorithm (QLA), which consists of a set of interleaved unitary collision-streaming operators, is developed for electromagnetic wave propagation in tensor dielectric media. External potential operators...
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