soils influence on living organisms and radon safety measures in russia

... SECTION Influence of harvesting time around grain maturity on rice cracking and head rice yield in the Mekong River Delta of Vietnam ABSTRACT Timely harvesting plays an important role in controlling ... right in the paddy field due to incorrect harvesting time and improper harvesting practices, and occur also due to adverse post-harvest drying conditions and inappropriate milling operations The ... temperature fluctuation during day and night, solar radiation intensity, sunshine hours and frequency of rain During the rainy season, the rice grain can develop cracks during the late maturity...

Ngày tải lên: 21/06/2014, 06:20

... surfactants and salt were sprayed in combination In this paper, we report the influence of marine salt on the leaf uptake of LABS in Pinus halepensis Mill To mimic the conditions found during storms, ... is conveyed onto the foliage by wind during storms and damage the coastal vegetation LABS accumulation in the needles of P halepensis Mill needs to be confirmed on pines growing in natural conditions, ... (Wells and Shunk, 1938; Oosting, 1945; Pyykkö, 1977; McWilliams and Sealy, 1987) A great deal of information has been obtained concerning nonionic surfactants commonly employed in the penetration...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 18:21

... were made in May, July and September during the growing season and decreased when made in November and March outside the growing season Cuttings in January were followed by frost and wind which ... sprout growth On the contrary, winter cutting, in conjunction with frost, reduced both sprout number and height growth Results from cuttings made during the growing particularly in July and September, ... Harrington (1984) on red alder, Cabanettes and Pagès (1990) on chestnut and Martinez and Martin (1985) on eucalyptus However, results in oaks differ Piskoric (1963) observed that sprouting intensity...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 23:22

... trademarks, and are used only for identification and explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Sindermann, Carl J Coastal pollution: effects on living ... Eutrophication Processes in Coastal Systems: Origin and Succession of Plankton Blooms and Effects on Secondary Production in Gulf Coast Estuaries, Robert J Livingston Handbook of Marine Mineral Deposits, ... began in Peru in 1991 was actually a later phase of a global pandemic that originated in Indonesia in 1961 and moved through India, Bangladesh, and Thailand in the 1960s, then to eastern and western...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... in humans 1997 — Monitoring of methylmercury concentrations in fish and shellfish continued in the Minamata area, as did other investigations that led to the conclusion that “continuous methyl mercury ... disease and to conduct medical examinations of possible victims 1996 — The institute’s role was expanded to include international chemical and environmental studies of mercury poisoning in humans ... huge cost in environmental degradation and human suffering Minamata continues as a stark illustration of that reality, and one that the Japanese people recognized and began changing in the 1970s...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... harmful algal blooms is almost overwhelming Advances in understanding have been aided by a long and continuing series of international conferences, beginning in the early 1970s (LoCicero 1975), each ... red sea bream (Pagrus major) larvae and juveniles were affected, and many died after feeding on plankton containing the toxins Poisoning by Alexandrium toxins was also suspected to be a cause ... resulting in severe reduction of light penetration of the water This had caused significant reduction in eel grass abundance and distribution in Long Island bays, and profound disturbances in other...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... oil and water from mixing leads on one hand to dismay at the repetitions of regional environmental insults from petroleum spills, and on another hand to some satisfaction with the accretion of information ... examined repeatedly in molluscan shellfish, using a combination of field observations and field or laboratory experiments, since the combined impacts of reduction in growth rates and increase in ... useful in population analyses Exposure to 100 ppb throughout the gonad maturation of parents and during fertilization and embryogenesis resulted in a 3- to 9-d delay in hatching, a 19% reduction in...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... published in an edited volume by Rolland, Gilbertson, and Peterson (1997), and other papers documenting research on effects of contaminants on marine fish have appeared in increasing numbers in an ... that included the following: • • Lesions or malformations of gonads, pituitary, brain, and liver Inhibition of production and release of hormones of the hypothalamus, pituitary, and gonads * Measures ... effluents containing alkyl phenols — degradation products of detergents — were found to have estrogenic (feminizing) effects on male rainbow trout, inhibiting growth of testes and inducing production...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... their use in other parts of the world is expanding, and contamination of the world’s oceans is continuing and may even be increasing Because of their persistence in the environment and their ... consequences of environmental degradation All three kinds of effects — on public health, economics, and quality of life — should be closely integrated in our thinking and acting, when confronted ... in 1968 and in Taiwan in 1979 by unfortunate outbreaks of accidental poisonings through contamination of cooking oil by PCBs and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (PCDFs) More direct demonstrations...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... seafood products in a “minimal consumption” category (one-half or one meal per month) Of the three principal producing areas, concentrations of contaminants in farmed salmon from Europe and North America ... or condoms fouling bathing beaches on Long Island We can conclude this discussion of consumer resistance by pointing out that, partly because of the consequences of coastal pollution, those consumers ... advisories restricting or banning fishing for certain species or in specific areas were increasing annually, with 95% of them resulting from fish contamination by mercury; dioxins; and now-banned PCBs,...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... populations is of overriding importance Third, investigations of effects of chemical contaminants on resource species have produced much useful information, including the following: • • • • Contaminant ... mutagens, and other toxic chemicals in the marine environment and marine resource populations The human species may become (in the presence of continued contamination of the coastal environment) ... facing a future in which: • • • • • Currently isolated zones of severe environmental contamination may gradually expand, intensify, and coalesce as human population density and industrialization...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... Valiullin and Valentin Tarabarin 387 The Influence of Archimedes in the Machine Books from Renaissance to the 19th Century Francis C Moon Archimedes Influence in Science and Engineering Thomas G Chondros ... the calculation of the Laplacian in curvilinear coordinates In his view this reduces to one equation only, namely the Poisson equation in curvilinear coordinates, with boundary conditions (Guitart, ... Editions of Works Alexander Golovin and Anastasia Golovina Archimedes in Program on History of Mechanics in Lomonosov Moscow St University Irina Tyulina and Vera Chinenova Archimedes Discovers and...

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... increase and decrease breast cancer risk On one hand, tobacco smoke contains chemicals that can cause breast cancer in animals and could thus be associated with an increase in breast cancer risk On ... differ in how their bodies process different chemicals, including the toxic chemicals in tobacco Examinations of the connection between breast cancer risk and differences in the processing of ... with continued smoking For example, there is a well established 1,000 to 2,000 percent increase in lung cancer risk associated with smoking Without question, the effects of quitting smoking on overall...

Ngày tải lên: 15/03/2014, 01:20

... ecology of Maculinea teleiusthe Ecology and Conservationin&Polandin Europe Studies on and M nausithous of Butterflies Vol 1: General Concepts and Case Studies, pp 9-10 Landscape influences on butterflies ... indicator species in national and international monitoring programmes The protection of wetlands in Switzerland was decided in the Rothenthurm Initiative in 1987 Following this initiative, management ... examine the definitions of habitat and matrix, the impact of land-use change on populations and communities, and how dispersing individuals are affected by features and resources in the landscape...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 01:20

... amount of misinformation In his essay, ‘Sample and hold: pop music in the digital age of reproduction’, Andrew Goodwin frets over the increasing difficulty in distinguishing human- from machine-generated ... (pressing a button or turning a knob) are not a prescribed, fixed routine, but are instead a site of continual negotiation among users, and ultimately, a measure of one’s connoisseurship of and intimacy ... recorded within the confines of a laptop by a musician working alone in a bedroom studio – indeed has a social context What are the historical roots and ongoing implications, for instance, of...

Ngày tải lên: 23/03/2014, 13:20

... involved in all aspects of this study She was involved in the concept and design, data collection and collation, data analysis, writing and editing of the manuscript CM was involved in the conception ... neurotrophic factor concentration or serotonin concentration in persons with MS, this provides a possible explanation for the decreased incidence of depression observed in persons with MS who regularly ... representation of all persons with MS living in Queensland, Australia This study had a reasonably low response rate (31%) and it is possible that health conscious individuals may have been more inclined...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation 2009, 6:13 Background Postural instability is one of the cardinal symptoms of Parkinson's disease (PD), and persons with PD run an increased risk of falling [1,2] ... falls occur during functional activities, e.g walking and turning [3], and it is common to experience near falls and a fear of falling [2,4,5] Contributing factors to falls are numerous and affect ... exclusion criteria: concomitant diseases interfering with balance testing, an inability to cooperate or an inability to stand for two minutes without support One patient declined participation Page...

Ngày tải lên: 19/06/2014, 08:20

... involved in all aspects of this study She was involved in the concept and design, data collection and collation, data analysis, writing and editing of the manuscript CM was involved in the conception ... neurotrophic factor concentration or serotonin concentration in persons with MS, this provides a possible explanation for the decreased incidence of depression observed in persons with MS who regularly ... representation of all persons with MS living in Queensland, Australia This study had a reasonably low response rate (31%) and it is possible that health conscious individuals may have been more inclined...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

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Ngày tải lên: 07/08/2014, 18:21

... according to the protocol (Invitrogen Co.) Cells were harvested and rinsed twice in ice-cold PBS, and kept on ice for 30 in cell lysis buffer containing mM PMSF while agitating constantly, and insoluble ... important in the development of new and effective strategy in cervical treatment Conclusions In conclusion, our study demonstrates that DNMT1 silencing could suppress proliferation and induce apoptosis ... demethylation and re-expression of CXCL12 in MCF-7 breast cancer as well as AsPC1 in pancreatic carcinoma cell lines, and suggested that they acted synergistically in inhibiting CpG island hypermethylation...

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