behavior and fate of aromatic bromine compounds in the environment

... release of these chemicals to the environment The specific research gaps identified in the context of understanding the fate and transfer of SVOCs in SEA are summarized below: I Determination of atmospheric ... a combination of laboratory experiments, field studies and theoretical models, has provided key insights into our understanding of the fate and distribution of SVOCs in the multi-media environment ... of these pollutants on the natural environment and human health, it is important to gain a comprehensive understanding of the fate and transfer of organic pollutants upon their release into the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/09/2015, 10:15

... 3B) The pK2 increased as the size of the residue at position 169 increased The effect of the size of the residue at position 169 may be related to the solvent accessibility of the side-chain of ... side-chain of His210 increased with the decrease in size of the side-chain at residue 169 (Table and Fig 3A) However, the ASAs of Asp113 and His57 remained constant when the side-chain at residue ... determined as part of the investigation into the shielding from solvent of the electrostatic interaction between Asp113 and His210 With increasing NaCl, the maximum activity decreased, while the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/02/2014, 03:20

... Randall and others, 1988; Melvin and others, 1992; Tiedeman and others, 1997; Lyford and others, 2003; Kontis and others, in press), with the thin till at the upper end of the reported range The ... streamflow in September in the Assabet River about doubled at the outlet of the Main Stem Headwaters subbasin and increased by about percent at the outlet of the Main Stem Upper subbasin These increases ... components of average A, March; and B, September nonstorm streamflow in subbasins of the Assabet River Main Stem, in a hypothetical scenario of increased withdrawals and discharges in the Assabet...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 15:20

... identified as a single point in Fig Point (∼17:00) is an interception of the plume at a lower altitude upon return into the MCMA The higher mixing ratios of MTBE at the beginning and the end of the flights ... further reduction of the boundary layer height in the morning together with some contribution from traffic and industry during the early morning before the boundary layer has expanded During the ... highlighted in the discussion section There were a number of flights in which the C130 flew over the city including the T0, T1, and T2 ground stations and these are shown in the lower panel of Fig A...

Ngày tải lên: 28/03/2014, 20:20

... of the Indias The Company next acquired the privilege of farming all the taxes and the whole revenue of the kingdom; and presently bought out the mint, and the right of coinage, lor a sum of money ... of effecting payments by the transfer of these credits from the account of the payer to that of the receiver In this way the trouble of counting large sums of coin, and of transporting it from ... the Bank of England Chapter V Scotch Banks Two banks were established in Scotland by charter from the king; one the Bank of Scotland, in 1695; the other, the Royal Bank of Scotland, in 1727 These...

Ngày tải lên: 29/03/2014, 07:20

... human fucokinase cDNA is similar to the long splice variant of mouse fucokinase cDNA at the 3¢ splice region The first and third methionines in the murine sequence, in the upstream end of the CDS, ... neither is the splice junction between exon 23a or 23b, and exon 24 In conclusion, the alternative splicing maintains the reading frame along the entire protein, therefore the protein variants ... variants of the murine fucokinase genes were expressed in COS-7 cells in frame with a 10-amino acid E2Tag present in the pQM vector The molecular masses of fucokinase proteins were determined by...

Ngày tải lên: 30/03/2014, 13:20

... were those involved in H S production through the biosynthesis of the sulfur-containing amino acids and the sulfate assimilation pathway (Figure 2c) Addition of DAP, on the other hand, upregulated ... 67% of the genes involved in sulfate assimilation and the synthesis of the sulfur-containing amino acids (Figure 2c) This appears to conflict with our phenotypic observations at the sampling point ... intermediate in the biosynthesis of the sulfur-containing amino acids (pathway is illustrated in Figure 2c) This pathway involves reduction of sulfate; the most abundant sulfur source in grape must, into...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 23:20

... performance of BMPs in addressing social and environmental issues and overall sustainability of the catfish farming sector in the Mekong Delta On the basis of this study and the key findings and conclusions, ... between each other and others in the community The diversity and complexity of the catfish farming industry Broadly speaking there are three categories of different farmers represented in the survey ... suffuse the industry and highlight the implicit and explicit roles of farmer associations in accessing and sharing information (and therefore likely role in BMP adoption and implementation going...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 04:20

... versions of the training data The clean and noisy testing sets consisted then of all the detected signal frames which did not belong to the training data Note that the testing data included also the ... models The standard models were trained using the clean training data The noise-compensated models were obtained by using multi-condition training approach, that is, the models were trained using ... improved by using models trained on noise-corrupted training data, since such models can accommodate the effect of noise The use of the same noise conditions for training the models, and testing is generally...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 05:20

... Recycling 945 Distribution in the Environment, in Foods, and in Living Organisms 946 Distribution in the Environment 946 Mercury Emissions to the Environment 946 Mercury Species in the Environment ... Foods, and Living Organisms 1117 Contamination of the Environment 1117 Inorganic Tin 1117 Organic Tin 1118 Contamination of Food and Living organisms 1119 Uptake, Absorption and Elimination in Plants, ... Important Compounds and Uses, Waste Products, and Recycling 1088 Distribution in the Environment, in Foods, and in Living Organisms 1090 Uptake, Absorption and Elimination in Plants, Animals, and Humans...

Ngày tải lên: 03/07/2014, 16:08

... the analysis of living trees, this procedure indirectly evaluates the variability of the dying-off of trees within individual developmental stages In the advanced phase of the growth stage, the ... starts to dominate from the aspect of yield and function at this stage Because of the dying-off of trees of the upper layer and damage to the lower layer by falling trees the correlation index for ... were found in the processes of the formation and structure of dead wood A significant increase in the necromass volume in the optimum stage, confirming the observations of Saniga and Schütz (2002),...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... cells with the dominant function of water and minerals supply The ratio between the fine root length and the number of root tips is an indicator of the intensity of the fine root forking A direct ... almost a linear character in the mineral soil The comparison of the amounts of explained variance (r2) and the parameters of the linear and nonlinear (exponential) regression shows that the replacement ... between the specific density of root tips in the finest diameter class of fine roots and the soil depth The decrease in the root tip number is caused rather by the increasing root Table 6 Mean and...

Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 10:22

... France [32] there should be a mean temperature increase of oC or oC, more marked in the summer and in the south of the country, increased precipitation in the winter but a reduction in the summer, ... differences in the range and value of the indices, in relation to the size of the areas and their altitudes Thus A numidica, A nebrodensis and A pinsapo have high indices due to their positions ... bearing in mind the uncertainty about the real evolution of climatic parameters and also the complexity of the phenomena involved: flower induction, fertilization, fruiting, seed dispersal, germination...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 14:20

... made the development of the physical mapping of the canine genome possible The objective of the present study was the chromosomal localization of NORs in the dog karyotype and the analysis of their ... terminal part of the q arms of chromosome pairs: and 17 The third chromosome pair, also bearing NORs in the terminal part of the q arm, belongs to a group of small autosomes not yet included in the ... included in the canine standard karyotype The banding pattern of this chromosome is shown in figure 1A In the male karyotype, a NOR occurred also in the terminal part of the long arm of the Y chromosome...

Ngày tải lên: 09/08/2014, 18:22

... diagram of enzymes and major products in the synthesis of chlorogenic acid in plants A simplified diagram of enzymes and major products in the synthesis of chlorogenic acid in plants The product ... downstream enzymatic step Indeed the involvement of the HQT gene in the profile of phenolic acids accumulated can influence the kind of response to the UV stress as reported in a previous study on ... timepoint considered, the Ct values of the samples of interest (CtI) with the appropriate calibrator (CtM) The Ct values of both the calibrator and the samples of interest are normalized to the...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 03:20

... regarding the methods of implementation and technical characteristics of the ventilation devices (Table 3) and regarding the definition and adequacy of criteria for ETI (Table 3) The analysis of ... CPAP, the optimal levels of pressure when using NPPV and definition of the best time to start non-invasive ventilation Competing interests The authors declare that they have no conflicting interests ... presented in Table There were several different definitions of ACPE (see Table 3), but most of them included the basic criteria considered in our definition (existence of dyspnea of sudden onset, increased...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... EGDT) was still only 1.6% and its non-NFR mortality lower These findings are relevant to other institutions considering the application of EGDT and to the powering of future randomized controlled ... ventilation in the ICU Of these 52 study patients, 37 (71.2%) survived hospital admission, two (3.8%) died in the ED, eight (15.3%) died in the ICU and six (11.5%) died in the ward Using the lactate ... summarizes their primary sources of infection Available online http://ccforum.com/content/10/3/R80 Table Table Clinical and laboratory findings in the emergency room Primary source of infection in patients...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 23:23

... PCO2, and this is a pragmatic issue in modern emergency medicine [12] Also, the use of capnography in the prehospital setting is interesting: there might be situations in which a rapid and rough ... But the sheer simplicity of the technique used by Rumpf and colleagues [1] is appealing and certainly deserves validation in a large-scale prospective study Indeed, it emphasizes the use of expired ... hemodynamic effect of thrombolysis in such patients [13] Finally, the merit of the article by Rumpf and colleagues [1] is to remind us that clinical applications of capnography are still growing, especially...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 20:21

... from the beginning of intron and the novel microsatellite, which included a tandem repeat of (TC)n is located approximately at 1264 bp from the beginning of intron 3.3 Allele frequencies in different ... for fine QTL mapping of production traits and for the study of the expression of porcine CA3 An assessment of the relationships between the CA3 functions and the characterisation of its genomic ... association analyses of the three microsatellite markers within the CA3 gene Additionally, the expression patterns of the porcine CA3 gene during the porcine skeletal muscle development and in different...

Ngày tải lên: 14/08/2014, 13:22