Antidating written human history the dung of animals, chalk, marl, wood ashes and other substances were probably used to increase the productivity of the soil. These practises found their way into the earliest farming activities of the Chinese, Persians, Greeks and Romans. (3)(11) In the Hebrew scriptures mention is made of the "Dung Gate". (10) This was undoubtedly a place given to the marketing of manures. That manure was used as a soil amendment in Asia Minor in Biblical times is not questioned. The famous Roman agricultural writer Cato (234 B.C.) wrote at length on manures and their handling. He gave bird manure preference and spoke of the manurial value of legumes. (3) Jethro Tull believed tillage was manure and contended that manures only benefit the soil because of improved physical condition after application. Liebig, the well known German agricultural chemist, gave prominence to the theory that small quantities of minerals added to the soil would suffice as manure. (1) Today the general ideas of soil fertility and the use of manures and fertilizers incorporates the views of these earlier students with better explanations of the relationships of one usage to the other. (19)(26)(29)(30) The study here reported is limited to other methods of handling barnyard manure and particularly to the recent development in Germany of what is known as "Hot Processing."

Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) tools are deployed within networks to monitor data that is transmitted to particular destinations such as MySQL,Oracle databases or log files. The data is normally dumped to these destinations without a forensic standard structure. When digital evidence is needed, forensic specialists are required to analyse a very large volume of data. Even though forensic tools can be utilised, most of this process has to be done manually, consuming time and resources. In this research, we aim to address this issue by combining several existing tools to archive the original IDS data into a new container (Digital Evidence Bag) that has a structure based upon standard forensic processes. The aim is to develop a method to improve the current IDS database function in a forensic manner. This database will be optimised for future, forensic, analysis. Since evidence validity is always an issue, a secondary aim of this research is to develop a new monitoring scheme. This is to provide the necessary evidence to prove that an attacker had surveyed the network prior to the attack. To achieve this, we will set up a network that will be monitored by multiple IDSs. Open source tools will be used to carry input validation attacks into the network including SQL injection. We will design a new tool to obtain the original data in order to store it within the proposed DEB. This tool will collect the data from several databases of the different IDSs. We will assume that the IDS will not have been compromised.

Subject of investigation - thermal extermination of monocotyledonous weed plant (barnyard grass (echinochloa crus-galli (L.))) using hot water vapour. Ecological weed control in crops is very important for development of ecological agriculture economy. While carrying out thermal weed extermination, it was noticed that monocotyledonous weeds are difficult to exterminate (to affect) thermally. The analysis of thermal extermination of the monocotyledonous weed plant (barnyard grass (echinochloa crus-galli (L.))) using wet water vapour is presented in the work. On the basis of temperature spread regularities in barnyard grass tissues established, the main technological indexes of thermal weed extermination using wet water vapour, application of which enables the efficient and ecological control of this difficult to exterminate weed plant, were determined. The data obtained were analysed statistically using the two-factor dispersion analysis. Growth stage efficiency of barnyard grass not dependent on the thermal effect duration, thermal effect duration influence not dependent on growth stages, as well as their interaction was discussed. The aim of this work is investigation of the water vapour thermal impact on the weed plant barnyard grass (echinochloa crus-galli (L.)) in various growth stages, with the purpose of its thermal extermination.