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Development of a Spectrophotometric Method for Determining pH of Soil Extracts and Comparison with Glass Electrode Measurements

 S Bargrizan, RJ Smernik, LM Mosley – Soil Science Society of America Journal, 2017 Abstract Soil pH measurement using conventional glass electrodes has several limitations. A spectrophotometric method was developed for determining soil pH involving indicator...

How Compact Spectrometers are being used in Environmental Research: Cleaning Up Our Messes

Modern technological advances have made our lives easier – from pharmaceuticals to help us stay healthy, to pesticides that allow greater crop yield – at least in the short term. But, what happens to these compounds once we are done using them? Many of them end up in...

How Compact Spectrometers are being used in Cancer Research: Approaches to a Multifaceted Problem

Every week, it seems like another friend or family member is diagnosed with cancer. The American Cancer Society predicts that 1,688,780 people will be diagnosed with cancer and 600,920 people will die from cancer in the US in 2017. This problem isn’t limited to the...

Developmental effects of visual environment on species-assortative mating preferences in Lake Victoria cichlid fish

DS Wright, N Demandt, JT Alkema, O Seehausen… – Journal of Evolutionary …, 2016 Local adaptation can be a potent force in speciation, with environmental heterogeneity leading to niche specialization and population divergence. However, local adaption often...
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