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The cycle of nitrogen is an essential, integral process in nature. Since amino acids form an important part of life-building and maintenance, nitrogen and its chemical compounds are an integral nutrient and ingredient for all living organisms. Understanding the processes in soil is essential because it helps both to ensure agricultural productivity, to control various, soil-based, unwanted pests and diseases, and, crucially, to limit climate change-related factors directly related to soil. The nitrogen cycle resea...

Energy policy of the European Union aims to move towards the sustainable and green energetics, therefore, identification and exploitation of renewable energy resources is of high importance in all EU member states. One of the types of renewable energy production is cogeneration of heat and power from biomass. Cogeneration becomes more and more topical in the Baltic States as various kinds of biomass, e.g., forestry and agriculture residues, cultivated plants for biomass are rather easy obtainable. For example, in ...