... pathogens and certain toxins in food, to reduce the amount of packaging and food waste, and to minimize the carbon footprint in the life cycle of food products and processes In this context, the advent ... confirmation of the authenticity of products This is where application of nanobarcodes incorporated into printing inks or coatings has shown the potential for use in tracing the authenticity of the packaged ... 2008) The main areas of application include food packaging and food products that contain nanosized or nano-encapsulated ingredients and additives The main principle behind the development of nanosized...
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... Treatment against Cirrhosis), is a multicenter study of the potential benefit of prolonged peginterferon therapy in mitigating the progression of fibrotic liver disease [8] In this study, 391 of the 1045 ... rigorously in a randomized controlled format to assess their value and impact on efficacy of therapy although they are now widely used in patients receiving interferon therapy Treatment of advanced ... transplant outcome, and the difficulties in treatment of the infection following LT [12], it is reasonable to emphasize the importance of pretransplant treatment of HCV The International Liver...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 1 pot
... case of hormones and other endogenous compounds, since the rise of animal life What is emerging is the interest by the scientific and lay communities in the presence of these chemicals in the ... detected in other large studies Also, the simplicity of using existing published methods to begin studies of the presence of pharmaceuticals in the environment may have constrained the variety of compounds ... present, the total number of compounds determined by the analytical methods used in these studies, the varying presence of interferences in the different media sampled, and the total number of studies...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 2 docx
... waters, and raw and treated sewages The authors26 studied the effect of the washing and of the eluting solvent and pH on the extraction step using a single pretreatment (SPE, Oasis HLB) Prior to the ... clofibric acid, diclofenac, fenoprofen, gemfibrozil, ibuprofen, indomethacin, ketoprofen, and naproxen) in WWTP effluents The recoveries ranged from 59% (indomethacin) to 92% (fenoprofen) in the ... allowed the quantification of the four blockers—acebutolol, atenolol, metoprolol and sotalol, carbamazepine and the three fluoroquinolones antibiotics—ciprofloxacin, ofloxacin, and norfloxacin—in...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 3 pdf
... for drinking water, pond water, and well water.48 The binding of estrogens to an MIP developed to aid in the analysis of estrogens in natural waters was lower than the binding of estrogens in deionized ... Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems the fraction of pharmaceuticals that are bound to solids in environmental studies instead of just concluding that the pharmaceutical ... the amount of recovered pharmaceuticals It is possible that during the contact time of 14 hours used in the study, the microorganisms have either incorporated the pharmaceuticals into the organic...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 4 potx
... within 10 days The degradation of the reference substances fulfilled the quality criteria set by the guidelines (i.e., the inoculum was viable and active) The elimination of organic carbon in the ... 24, 48, and 72 hours The pH value was measured at the beginning and at the end of the test For the study with dimeglumine gadopentetate and gadofosveset trisodium, an incubating apparatus (Abimed ... concentration, on the one hand, and the experimental determination of a no-effect concentration (NOEC) of the pharmaceutical on the other hand.3,4 Because the aquatic environment represents the primary...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 5 pot
... be incorporated into the calculation The model calculated the concentration of the veterinary medicine in animal manure and then uses the nitrogen content of the manure and the maximum spreading ... the inputs of livestock medicines to the environment and synthesizes the available information on the fate and transport of veterinary pharmaceuticals in manure and soils Toward the end of this ... prioritize these and begin to develop an understanding of the fate (and effects) of some of the more important classes in the environment A large body of data is now available on the effects of the...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 6 pptx
... erythromycin, roxithromycin, and salinomycin of 41 d, 130 d, and d, respectively, whereas no degradation of tiamulin was observed.51 The dissipation of tylosin was studied in anaerobic slurries of swine ... (50 g/L), intended to eliminate biodegradation, increased these times to 90 h and 500 h, respectively In contrast, aerating the systems in either the presence or absence of NaN3 reduced the 90% ... MnO2, reflecting the lower redox potential (0.63 V) of the mineral.60 6.4 HORMONES 6.4.1 SORPTION BY SOIL AND SEDIMENT The occurrence of natural and synthetic estrogens and androgens in surface...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 7 pot
... An understanding of the degradation and fate of veterinary antibiotics in soil is important because of widespread use of the compounds in livestock production in the United States, and the concurrent ... were in the absence of exposure to tylosin or other antibiotics and may be explained by a natural level of resistance in the population Leaching of tylosin-resistant Enterococcus in the MT and ... leaching of tylosin in our study Finally, Saini et al (2003) found increased survival of an E coli strain when manure in which they were residing was incorporated into the soil Additionally, they...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 8 potx
... Comparing the three soils in the initial phase, it can be seen that the uptake is dependent on the availability of the antimicrobial in the soil which is best in the sandy soil D With the course of ... to the soil would be done via spiked sea sand at the beginning of the experiment Unfortunately, the high concentrations prevented the grass from growing A reduction in dose and in the number of ... incorporation of 1.00 g of the sea sand into the 100.0 g of soil the resulting soil concentration was 10 mg kg1 This provided a thorough distribution of the compounds in the soil and a slow desorption The...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 9 docx
... group of amino acids located in the N terminal domain of the polypeptide The C terminal domain contains the binding site for the hydrophobic substrate (H site) This region is much more variable in ... in CTC-treated pinto beans The increase in the proteins banding at this size range was indicative of GST induction in the treated maize plants © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 206 Fate of ... quantified in the fruit of apple and pear trees by Chard and coworkers.13 On the other hand, our research demonstrates the involvement of the glutathione conjugation pathway in dechlorination of chlortetracycline...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 10 docx
... what does and does not work in remediating the presence of drugs in drinking water There is no question that subtherapeutic doses of these compounds are finding their way into the surface and groundwaters ... chlorine to form N-chloroamines that can further decompose The kinetics and mechanisms of sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, and three fluoroquinolone antibiotics (ciprofloxacin, enrofloxacin, and ... consumers’ drinking water and that, for now, the levels found in that finished drinking water are most often close to the analytical limits of detection Nevertheless, there are insufficient occurrence...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 11 docx
... identified as the main elimination processes for these contaminants in the lake water Loraine and Pettigrove reported the occurrence of pharmaceuticals and personal-care products in raw drinking water ... agglomeration of individual resin beads that yields resin settling against the rapidly rising water in the settler Since the MIEX resin used for benchscale testing was cycled several times through the ... Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems To date, the number and type of organic contaminants investigated are still limited considering the large pool of undetected...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 12 pot
... Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems chlorine conditions, confirming that the hydrazone side-chain is the reactive site and the quinoxaline N,N´-dioxide and ... the Chattahoochee River in Atlanta—near the intake of a regional drinking water treatment plant, and from Lake Zurich in Switzerland—at the intake of one of Zurich’s drinking water treatment plants ... 266 Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems O– Reaction and Transformation of Antibacterial Agents with Aqueous Chlorine 267 of the aniline N and the other corresponding...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 13 pot
... DHT.45 The primary pathway to inactivate testosterone and DHT is the oxidation of the 17-hydroxy group resulting in androstanedione and androstenedione.42 Furthermore, the reduction of the keto ... degradation.104 Because of the similarity in their basic structures, the degradation of androgens and progesterone is expected to go through the same pathways in terms of the final mineralization Photodegradation ... Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems 13.4 NATURAL ANDROGENS Natural androgens are C-19 steroids that possess androgenic activities (stimulating and maintaining...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 14 doc
... ampicillin, novobiocin, penicillin, kanamycin, gentamicin, spectinomycin, streptomycin, tylosin, and tetracyclines over a wide range of inhibition (from to 100%) This rapid plateauing in the inhibition ... directly beneath the slatted floor of the building housing the swine (Figure 14.2) The swine manure, along with excess food and other solids, falls or is periodically rinsed down into the underfloor ... activity in swine lagoon slurry in lab-scale microcosm experiments This work monitored the impacts of varying concentrations of sulfonamides, tetracycline, lincomycin, and tylosin on the production of...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 15 docx
... tetracycline Because of the high sorption of tetracycline in sludge, the influence of SRT on the sorption behavior of © 2008 by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC 356 Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment ... examine the efficiencies of various disinfection processes in the removal of pharmaceuticals in drinking water 15.3.1 BIODEGRADATION AND BIOTRANSFORMATIONS During biological degradation in WWTPs, pharmaceutical ... 350 Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems Residues of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals are introduced into the environment via a number of pathways...
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Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems - Chapter 16 (end) pptx
... did find, however, that the elimination in the anoxic region of the biofilm reactor improved the removal efficiencies of clofibric acid and diclofenac to values between 60 and 80% of their initial ... of EE2/NADH removed by incubating EE2, NADH, and other components in the presence of an AMO-containing enzyme extract; the molar ratio of NADH/ EE2 determined during the incubation was 2.2, which ... LLC 380 Fate of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment and in Water Treatment Systems 25 Martin, S.R Equilibrium and kinetic studies on the interaction of tetracyclines with calcium and magnesium...
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báo cáo sinh học:" Managerial competencies of hospital managers in South Africa: a survey of managers in the public and private sectors" docx
... planning, organizing, leading and controlling Planning involves defining goals and mapping out ways to reach them; organizing entails arranging and coordinating human, material and information resources ... years of age has implications in terms of the natural attrition and the replacement of these managers and on the return on investment from the development of these managers The future sustainability ... well as their needs for further training and development These included specific health care competencies, planning, organizing, leading, controlling, legal and ethical, and self-management These...
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Equations of motion in the state and confiruration spaces pptx
... how the inputs enter the linear combination yielding the output of the system It is called the direct link matrix and its size is s × r In many cases the inputs not enter the linear combination ... by writing the complete expression of the energies, performing the derivatives obtaining the complete equations of motion and then cancelling nonlinear terms The second is by reducing the expression ... The virtual displacement of the center of the contact zone of the ith wheel in the reference frame of the vehicle is δui = δx δy + δψxi (B.48) The virtual work of forces Fxi and Fyi and of the...
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