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... quantification of the role of these interfaces on the movement of PTOCs leads to a better ability to understand, model, and predict the aquatic fate of PTOCs The following discussion focuses on these interfaces ... carbon content of only some % or less However, some of this organic content can be in the form of thin organic coatings on the mineral substrates In fact, partitioning of PTOCs onto aquatic particulates ... although the Niagara River is a major source, other sources, such as the atmosphere, are involved The areas of highest concentrations reflect these sources and in- lake processes of sediment focusing...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... applications of CuO on the basis of the number of papers published in the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Science, as reported in Table 1-2 [8] Ag NP is the most incorporated NP in industrial ... determine the partitioning of ENP in the water, sediment, and biota compartments It should be noted that in the current thesis wherever the possibility of joining particles tightly to one another ... results of the distribution of these ENPs indicate that they mainly occur in water compartment, and their corresponding predicted environmental concentrations (PECs) are in the range of between...

Ngày tải lên: 09/09/2015, 08:18

... For PG, the content of 16:0 was 52% in the chilling-sensitive strain and 36% in the chilling-resistant strain The content of 16:1(3trans) at the sn-2 position of PG was 8% in the chilling-sensitive ... understanding of the role that EFAs play in maintaining the health and ecological integrity of aquatic ecosystems Superimposed over this, and of imminent concern to policy makers, is the specter of ... phytoplankton The synthesis of very large amounts of DHA by the non-pigmented dinoflagellate Crypthecodinium cohnii (Mansour et al 1999) is an important finding The DHA-formation pathway in Crypthecodinium...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 19:20

... reviewing the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence in hazard evaluation and of persistence measures as applied to metals, including the potential to use bioavailability measures in aquatic ... broaden the scientific underpinnings of the PBT analysis, the difficulty of prescribing a meaningful way to quantitatively weight the various PBT parameters and to integrate them into a single numerical ... The distribution of the mass input to the different compartments should be designed on the basis of the objective of the screening 3.5.5 PRECAUTIONARY APPROACH The UWM approach presented in the...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 11:45

... function of the degree of biomagnification or trophic dilution that occurs in organisms of lower trophic levels in the food web, thus regulating the concentration of the chemical in the diet of upper ... resulting in a kM of 0.05 dÀ and a t of 0.013 t counteracts b and essentially reduces the influence of food web magnification of these substances Further, a kM of 0.05 dÀ results in a half-life of ... probability interval of the empirical data rather than the more conventional 95% is that the majority of the BAF data in the BAF data represent BAFs in lower trophic organisms For biomagnifying chemicals,...

Ngày tải lên: 22/03/2014, 14:20

... during inflammation in tissues of the lung nor the identity of the cells that are the source of PRXV production are known We therefore investigated the effects of gram-negative bacterial inflammation ... first determined the level of expression of PRXV in the cells of the murine bronchial epithelium (Figures and 2) PRXV was abundantly expressed in the bronchial epithelium of the lungs of control ... mechanisms of further PRXV up-regulation in the bronchial epithelium are limited, there is a basis for proposing therapeutic administration of this protein in recombinant form Administration of PRXV in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 08:21

... domain [9], plus a MEKHLA (called after the goddess of lightning, water and rain) domain in subfamily III proteins [12] HD-Zip II TFs also have a distinguishing feature in their C-terminus, the ... the sites which are homologous to all the HD-Zip I proteins analyzed The initial strategy involved the comparative analysis of the HZT and CST, and the manual inspection of the alignment of the ... alignment of the HD-Zip domains The HD-Zip domains of the 178 proteins plus the three outgroups were processed for alignment This alignment was used for the HZT (only the 178 HD-Zip I proteins) and the...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 11:21

... RLAT in the injection log within 28 days prior to the visit Because RLAT steady-state plasma concentrations are maintained at a minimum of weeks after the last injection [14], the 28-day interval ... that these data be interpreted cautiously and not be overly generalized Initiation of RLAT at the beginning of the study was the only clinical mandate, and treatments for schizophrenia including ... acquisition of data, analysis and interpretation of data, and drafting of the manuscript and its critical revision for important intellectual content WM was involved in the interpretation of data and in...

Ngày tải lên: 11/08/2014, 16:20

... reviewing the scientific underpinnings of the use of persistence in hazard evaluation and of persistence measures as applied to metals, including the potential to use bioavailability measures in aquatic ... reviewing the soundness of current uses of bioaccumulation in hazard evaluation of metals in aquatic species and aquaticlinked food chains Toxicity — reviewing toxicity procedures used to assess the ... explanation without intent to infringe Library of Congress Cataloging -in- Publication Data Adams, William J., 1946Assessing the hazard of metals and inorganic metal substances in aquatic and terrestrial...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... membranes of the epithelial cells by endocytosis and further metabolic processing The intestine is also the site of small organic molecule uptake Metals may bind to these molecules and inadvertently ... regulation of uptake primarily occurs at this epithelial membrane by the expression pattern of the transport proteins, complexation by mucus, or storage in the intestinal tissue A complicating factor in ... certain threshold level so that essential functions are impaired (e.g., inhibition of enzymes or transporters by binding of metals in the catalytic centre of the molecule) When the rate of metal...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... providing input to the UWM, and (3) providing an interim solution to the use of aquatic toxicity data in metal categorization, independent of and in advance of the UWM 5.2 DATA ACCEPTABILITY The ... to differences in sorption at the gill and kinetics of uptake and internal distribution of metal accumulated via the diet In any event, they illustrate the difficulties in establishing robust residue–effect ... indirectly, if the bound metal is subsequently transported across the plasma membrane into the cell Once within the cell, the metal may interact with a variety of intracellular sites, resulting...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... difficulty) to obtain the aquivalence in water, then the other aquivalences as shown in Figure A.1 Inspection of this figure shows that the aquivalence is the sum of contributions for each of the possible ... key elements of the soil ecosystem (Figure 6.4) The microbial test represents the basis of the soil ecosystem in terms of biomass for fueling the food chain; microbes are involved in almost every ... determined by averaging the ranks of birds and mammals Rank determined by reassigning the wildlife ranks to and then averaging ranks of wildlife, plants, and invertebrates b (Section 6.4.2) or using...

Ngày tải lên: 12/08/2014, 04:22

... acknowledgement is given to the original source of publication and a link is inserted to the published article on Springer's website The link must be accompanied by the following text: "The final publication ... (LEV), ofloxacin (OFL), and lomefloxacin were below the detection limit The levels of CIP and NOR in Vietnam were generally in the same order of magnitude as in Switzerland The removal of the analyzed ... strengthened the assumption of them constituting a very high risk Thus, in conclusion, the results of this study underline the importance of the negative impacts of antibiotics and synthetic...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2015, 18:05

... or lying on the ground) with all the vertical poles diminishing in size as they proceed along the limiting lines of perspective towards a central vanishing point lying in the centre of the horizon ... buildings, allowing for a toning down of the purple Then with a warmer brown tone, you can mark in some of the darker windows and roofs and the front façade of the buildings Lastly, the domes ... end of your picture Start with the outline The colour could be ultramarine but a fairly watery mix Then define all the blocks of architecture and the line of the base of the buildings where they...

Ngày tải lên: 13/09/2012, 14:19

... ‘‘peripheral’’ to the main lines of development of the novel, we should follow the lead of Ina Ferris and Katie Trumpener by investigating the central role of ‘ the regional’’ in the construction of English ... required the development of ideological instruments that would promote these ends, arts of peace rather than of war, of in uence instead of domination: in the revolutionary s in Ireland, amidst the ... becoming good members of the Empire that they should not remain in the anomalous position they are in, but since they absolutely refuse to become the one thing, that they become the other;...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 10:39

... these values, could be contained The emotional intensity of the backlash against the intrusions of these subaltern groups suggests the importance of reading these developments in ways which interfuse ... advances in the print industry.22 In Letters on Education (1790), Catherine Macaulay argued that the ‘advantages of printing, by rendering easy the communication of ideas, giving an universality to their ... because the events of this period helped generate a discursive shift in the dominant ideas about literature (the beginning of the end of the bourgeois ideal of publicity), and partly because the...

Ngày tải lên: 21/09/2012, 11:00

... wake at a.m., but nap for two hours or so in the early afternoon Thus the influence on one's sleep pattern is worthy of consideration when choosing an occupation ...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:02

... profitability is declining The internalization of information within the same institution may thus enhance intra-circuit and inter-circuit stability by reducing the incentive to overfinancing The ... placing money with investment financial institutions in the capital market, and hold the remaining share in noninterest bearing, short-term bank deposits (eq 7) The share of savings going to the ... allocation of resources Creating a stronger investor base amounts to strengthening the circuit by completing the financial market structure of the economy, thus eliminating discontinuities in the transmission...

Ngày tải lên: 24/10/2012, 09:33

... to 4.4% of men and 1.8% of women over the age of 65 [4] A two-fold increase in incidence of gout has been reported in the USA and New Zealand over the past 30 years, while the prevalence of gout ... attacks in the first metatarsophalangeal joint he was unaware that gout could occur in his wrist Typical presentation includes sudden onset of intense pain, redness and swelling of the joint Examination ... any joint including the ankle, knee, hand, wrist, elbow, sacroiliac joint and other joints of the spine, however most commonly occurs in the lower extremity In this case, although the patient had...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:06

... nursing handover (red, up-pointing arrows), the beginning and end of the daily medical shift (green, down-pointing arrows), and periods of routine nursing observations (pink, shorter, up-pointing ... activation of the MET service during these hours in the years following the introduction of the MET system When directly compared with the study conducted by Lee and coworkers [5], 46.2% of the 2568 ... increase the ease of utilisation of the MET system at our institution Furthermore, the timing and frequency of patient observations reported in the study would be typical of most hospitals Finally,...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2012, 10:45