a focus on heavy metal toxicity

... family history of similar disorders A conventional approach was applied, involving elevation of the affected limb, massage, physical activity and compression with elastic stockings On physical ... lymphedema in a 33-year old female Discussion In the first case the analysis of SF-36 results disclosed a significant functional impairment with a slight impact of the condition on emotional and social ... dermatologists, may represent an essential issue for an optimal overall management of cases with a congenital primary lymphedema [14] Conclusions Assessing the impact of the duration and severity of the condition...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 11:40

... Pan American Health Organization and the Organization of American States -recognized the gravity of gender-based abuse and passed resolutions condemning it A coalition of more than 900 international ... documented consequences of sexual abuse are early onset of sexual activity and an inability to distinguish sexual from affectionate behavior (Donaldson, Whalen and Anastas, 1989; Browne and Finkelhor, ... questions about abuserelated issues Providers are generally granted greater "social permission" to ask personal questions about matters related to reproduction and sexuality and can adopt an attitude...

Ngày tải lên: 13/02/2014, 10:20

... and data-sharing and management institutions Resources are needed to build national and regional capacity to collect, manage, and analyze water quality data Improve communication and education ... Americas, Europe, Australasia, and most significantly, in Africa and the eastern Mediterranean (Figure 1) Beyond nitrate contamination, agricultural activities are also linked to the salinization ... and gas exploration Impact on shallow groundwater quality Oil and gas production Produced water can impact surface and groundwater Coal and uranium mining Tailings and drainage can impact surface...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 15:21

... visual air quality and physical indicators such as color and contrast in a landscape Flachsbart and Phillips (1980) used physical data for a variety of air pollutants and weather indicators and, ... Saksena Sumeet Saksena is a Fellow in the Research Program at the East-West Center He is also Affiliate Faculty at the Department of Urban And Regional Planning, University of Hawai`i at Manoa ... 401-405 Koushki P A, Al-Fadhala S, Al-Saleh O, and Aljassar A H 2002 Urban air pollution impact of modal shift in school transportation in Kuwait Journal of Urban Planning and Development 128(2):...

Ngày tải lên: 06/03/2014, 16:20

... oxidation/reduction, microbiological activity and plant uptake PURIFICATION CAPACITY OF WETLANDS Observations show that both natural and artificial wetlands have a capacity to purify wastewater containing heavy ... contamination and plant genotype REMOVAL MECHANISMS OF HEAVY METALS IN WETLANDS SEDIMENTATION AND FLOCCULATION Once a heavy metal is in a wetland, whether the water is stagnant or mobile, a number ... relation to environmental metal concentration have been carried out with aquatic plants as pollution indicators (Pip & Stepaniuk, 1992) Phytoplankton plays an important role in heavy metal dynamics...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 23:06

... churchowned primary health care facilities in Dar Es Salaam and other Tanzanian coast regions East Afr Med J 2001, 78(10):510-514 Ratanawijitrasin S, Soumerai SB, Weerasuriya K: Do national medicinal drug ... understanding and/or implementation of international and/or national guidelines The South Africa study, mentioned above, looked at national guidelines Also a review on India and diabetes, stated: ... investigate further the link between lack of information and feelings of professional isolation and general dissatisfaction among rural health workers How important is lack of information as a contributing...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 17:20

... organizations on the basis of criteria A similar approach might also be useful to track e-Environment related organizations as well as the many applications that are being created on an ongoing basis ... conditions, planning may also include the anticipation of environmental conditions and emergency scenarios, such as climate change, man-made and natural disasters 4) Environmental management and ... Administration (NASA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the European Space Agency (ESA); • The World Meteorological Organization (WMO); • United Nations Environment Programme...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 12:20

... North American Free Trade Agreement (pg 530) Central America Free Trade Agreement (pg 531) South American Trade Alliances (pg 531) Asian Trade Alliances (pg 532) Association of Southeast Asian Nations ... experience and apply the concepts, explore the additional material associated with Chapter Social Changes Today Part Part Part Part Part 1: Leading and Managing for Today and the Future (Chapters ... this section, we have looked at the traditional views of what managers and leaders do, and we’ve made a case that at work, everyone needs to be both a manager and a leader We all need to learn skills...

Ngày tải lên: 29/06/2014, 08:20

... clinical classification of the Medical Scientific Advisory Board of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America (MGFA) [3] The patient was classified to be in MGFA class IIa, as mild weakness ... Penn AS, Sanders DB: Myasthenia gravis: recommendations for clinical research standards Task Force of the Medical Scientific Advisory Board of the Myasthenia Gravis Foundation of America Neurology ... specimen was staged to be as Masaoka Stage I since macroscopically it was a completely encapsulated thymoma with no microscopically determined capsular invasion [4] The postoperative course was uneventful...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 10:20

... Khorashad JS, Gabriel IH, Chaidos A, Olavarria E, Goldman JM, Apperley JF, Marin D: Pleural effusions in patients with chronic myeloid leukaemia treated with dasatinib may have an immune-mediated pathogenesis ... http://www.jhoonline.org/content/2/1/46 Dasatinib Dasatinib is a thiazole carboximide with potent activity against BCR-ABL and also SFKs [15] This agent has 325fold greater activity against unmutated BCR-ABL in vitro than imatinib, ... ASY, Celgene, Novartis, and Methylgene Authors' contributions GG, DM, and AY contributed equally to the content and focus of the manuscript from its earliest conception All authors read and approved...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 22:20

... infection or vaccination with avian type mycobacteria and allows to rule out mammal tuberculosis infection according to standardized criteria An additional drawback to MAP vaccination, which at least ... field data suggest that vaccination of adult or subadult animals might have some management (no need for separate handling, vaccination of only replacers) and therapeutic (stronger humoral and cellular ... IBD: Inflammatory Bowel Disease Author details Vacunek, Bizkaiko Teknologia Parkea, Ibaizabal Bidea 800, Derio 48160, Bizkaia, Spain 2NEIKER-Tecnalia, Department of Animal Health, Berreaga 1, 48160...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... Canadian Natural Gas Production Forecast Source: Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP), “Conventional & Unconventional” (© 2009), http://www.capp.ca/canadaIndustry/naturalGas/ConventionalUnconventional/Pages/default.aspx#Zce9tkSvt2pJ ... common types of unconventional gas are tight gas, coal bed methane, and shale gas While conventional gas is the primary source of gas production in Canada, unconventional gas is anticipated to contribute ... Sample Data Used in the Analysis of Hydraulic Fracturing Processes and Chemical Usage by Shale Play/Basin Bakken Shale Play Barnett Shale Play Eagle Ford Shale Play Fayetteville Shale Play Marcellus/Utica...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2014, 23:07

... that of Japan and Sweden, while under-five mortality rate of Germany is 4, Australia 5, U.K 6, Canada and U.S What makes Singapore’s achievement laudable is that it has done so at a fraction of ... 199826; Phua and Yap, 1998) is that the saving approach resolves the problem of intergenerational transfers that a rapidly ageing society poses in a tax-financed system A major concern in a pay-as-you ... Chronic Care Program and Primary Care Partnership Scheme are also in place 1.5 The Focus of the Thesis As discussed above, the ageing population is expected to have a sizeable impact on the health...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 15:53

... tamandua (Tamandua mexicana), the Sechuran fox (Pseudalopex sechurae), the puma (Puma concolor), the jaguar (Panthera onca), the ocelot (Leopardus pardalis) the tayra (Eira barbara), the collared ... Region Cajamarca from elevations between 1100-1500 m a. s.l (CisnerosHeredia et al 2008) We collected our specimens near Santa Rosa de la Yunga, Region Cajamarca, and in Zapatalgo, Region Amazonas ... in Balsas, in the Southern part of the Region Amazonas, in Chacanto, Region Cajamarca and in various localities in the Region La Libertad (San Vicente/Pusac, Santa Rosa/El Tingo, Vijus, Chagual,...

Ngày tải lên: 19/11/2015, 15:51

... boreholes and hand pumps) and increased local organizational capacity/social capital Village water committees have been created in projects evaluated in India, Paraguay, and Sri Lanka, and many of ... Social Affairs Nongovernmental organization Operations Evaluation Department Project Management Unit Provincial Project Management Unit National Rural Water and Sanitation Project, Bolivia Poverty ... Papers, Operations Evaluation Department (hereafter, OED) publications, academic and on- line publications, and publications available at the Vietnam Development Information Center (a reference...

Ngày tải lên: 26/04/2016, 07:33

... ion diameters of some heavy metal ions It can be seen from the table that the metal ions are much smaller than the layer distance of the PTW crystal [5] So that the metal ions could rather easily ... time on the adsorption capacity The effect of pH value on absorption capacity of PTW is showed in Fig It can be seen that the absorption capacity of Pb2+ and Cd2+ on PTW increases with pH value ... can be seen that the absorption of Pb2+ and Cd2+ on PTW increases with time The absorption capacity of PTW increases quickly in the beginning and slows down gradually, and reaches constant at...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 09:38

... two models for appropriate modeling and prediction of heavy metal toxicity and accumulation Funaria hygrometrica Hedw is one of the most tolerant mosses to heavy metals (Itouga et al., 2006) Therefore, ... moss was incubated for days, and then the photograph of the moss was taken again All incubations were performed under aseptic condition The area covered by the moss was measured by an image analysis ... the copper accumulation in the moss while taking the metal speciation and the effects of competing cations into consideration, fCu was calculated using eq and copper accumulation can also be predicted...

Ngày tải lên: 05/09/2013, 10:15

Ngày tải lên: 26/01/2014, 01:20

... curvature and water absorption were analyzed/tested in the laboratory of Construction material, Hanoi University of Construction The environmental safety of sludge re-usage was assessed based on ... result of heavy metal rich sludge composition Analysis result of chemical compositions of heavy metal sludge showed that the sludge taken from Goshi -Thanh Long company contains some heavy metals like ... heavy metals leaching after 2, 14 and 21 days of soaking in rain water The experiments were carried out in the laboratory of Environmental analysis, faculty of Environmental Sciences and department...

Ngày tải lên: 12/02/2014, 17:20