trans gill and dietary uptake of methyl mercury by the sacramento blackfish a planktivorous freshwater fish

Managing for Healthy Ecosystems doc

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 18:21

... of California Davis, CA Alan C Heyvaert University of California Davis, CA Barry Jessiman Health Canada Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Harry Hirvonen Canadian Forest Service Ottawa, Ontario, Canada Steen ... of Saskatchewan Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada A Senthilselvan University of Alberta Edmonton, Alberta, Canada M Sexton University of California Davis, CA Abdul Hadi Harmon Shah LESTARI Selangor, ... Contributors Pauzi Abdullah LESTARI Selangor, Malaysia Jock R Anderson The World Bank Washington, DC Saiful Arif Abdullah University Kebangsaan Malaysia Selangor, Malaysia James K Andreasen U.S Environmental...

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The Importance of Water and Water Quality in Brewing pptx

Ngày tải lên : 18/03/2014, 00:20

... stouts, and ales This is because the dark roasted malts lower the pH of hard water, and facilitate the reduction of the alkalinity and pH Soft water is better for pale lagers with good hop character ... carbonates and bicarbonates of magnesium and calcium and can be removed by high temperatures as CO2 boils off ↑alkalinity, ↑pH Permanent Hardness Permanent hardness is that portion of total hardness ... reduce acidity and raise pH Expressed as mg/l as calcium carbonate (CaCO3) for all three ions Residual Alkalinity This is related to permanent hardness and is also determined by the removal of bicarbonates...

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A CFD analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a tubular-shaped PEM fuel cell

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 14:58

... is used to analyse and evaluate the performance of a planar and a tubular-shaped PEM fuel cell 2.1 Computational domain The full computational domains for the planar and tubular-shaped PEM fuel ... the reaction propagates at the rate demanded by the current The activation overpotential can be divided into the anode and cathode overpotentials The anode and cathode activation overpotentials ... diffusive limitations, whereas at a planar shape the concentration of oxygen under the land areas has already reached near-zero values The molar oxygen fraction at the catalyst layer increases with...

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Báo cáo " Impacts of climate change on water resources in the Huong River basin and adaptation measures " pptx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 16:20

... and fish migration/spawning routes Changes in the natural environment lead to changes of biodiversity, the behavior of fauna and flora and change of their genetic diversity The coastal zone accounts ... sustainable development in these specific zones; and (4) Re-assessment of the carrying capacity of the coastal zone and lagoons and potential adaptive capacity of relevant sectors (agriculture, aquaculture, ... shrinking of land and coastal plain due to enlarged wetland and flooded areas in Tam Giang - Cau Hai lagoon would exacerbate the effects of floods to downstream of Huong River; (2) The flooding of terrestrial...

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báo cáo hóa học:" The influence of the level of physical activity and human development in the quality of life in survivors of stroke" potx

Ngày tải lên : 20/06/2014, 15:20

... is given by an equation that measures the distance between the observed value for the indicator and the minimum value as a proportion of the Aidar et al Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2011, ... regarding the frequency and duration of the physical activities Individuals were classified as very active, active, irregularly active and sedentary [18] IPAQ Classification The IPAQ contained ... per capita income of 245,425, and a national HDI ranking of 968; whereas Belo Horizonte has a high HDI-I economic indicator (0.828), a per capita income of 557,435, and a national HDI ranking of...

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An assessment of water quality in the Lower Mekong Basin pptx

Ngày tải lên : 06/07/2014, 22:20

... Khorat Plateau, mainly in Thailand, is a vast agricultural area situated on salt deposits that can affect water quality locally The tropical Great Lake of Cambodia and the Tonle Sap river form a ... on the water quality of the Mekong River There is anecdotal evidence of the use of mercury in artisanal placer gold extraction upstream of the Great Lake of Cambodia and in the mainstream in the ... transboundary transport of nitrate-N, total-P and CODMII between selected transboundary locations: Vientiane and Nakhon Phanom, Pakse and Kratie, and Koh Khel and Chau Doc 41 Variation between dry and...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp: "Analysis of snow accumulation and snow melting in a young mountain spruce and beech stand in the Orlické hory Mts., Czech Republic" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 07/08/2014, 04:20

... intervals always from five sites (3 samples from each of the sites) in a spruce and beech stand The depth of the samples was measured, their weight was determined and the snow water equivalent and ... 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 Characteristics of the field research station and methods of the study The field research station was established in 1976 in a mature spruce and beech stand in the district of ... beech stands, snow depth and snow water equivalent were always higher in the leafless broadleaved stand At the same time, it has been proved that the rate of snow melting is always significantly...

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Báo cáo lâm nghiệp:"Analysis of log shape and internal knots in twenty Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Ait.) stems based on visual scanning and computer aided reconstruction" pptx

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 01:21

... et al Table I Characteristics of the plot (279th plot from Leiria Forest) and of the 20 sample maritime pine trees (mean and standard deviation) Plot characteristics Characteristics of the sample ... operator and with the image of the flitch on the screen, the system registered the geometrical outline of the sawing surface, the log pith line and the location, size, shape and quality factor of each ... dry and rotten) and a set of data for knot pith line and diameters of a series of knot cross-sections [23, 24] The scanned images of all the flitches of the logs from one tree containing a total...

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Báo cáo khao học: "High-resolution analysis of radial growth and wood density in Eucalyptus nitens, grown under different irrigation regimes" potx

Ngày tải lên : 08/08/2014, 14:20

... time, there is a common axis with the measured wood properties The axis of the dendrometer data is therefore rotated in a way that the radial distances of both measures are plotted on the abscissa ... the same for the wood and dendrometer data The dendrometer data were smoothed using a 7-day moving average filter and shrinkage events removed The spatially measured wood property data was mapped ... the APART program of the Austrian Academy of Science Thanks to Dale Worledge, CSIRO Forestry and Forest Products for site maintenance and providing the soil water data REFERENCES [1] Antonova...

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Analysis of passive cooling and heating potential in Vietnam

Ngày tải lên : 17/06/2015, 09:05

... improvement of various passive cooling and heating strategies and their combinations The weather in Hanoi is found to be naturally comfortable during only 23.6% of total time of a year whereas in Danang ... the thermal environment - Analytical determination and interpretation of thermal comfort using calculation of the PMV and PPD indices and local thermal comfort criteria Geneva, 2005 [7] The US ... weather data of any season, any month or any day can be separately printed out In this step, hourly meteorological parameters of Hanoi, Danang, and Hochiminh city were graphically printed on the...

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ANALYSIS OF PASSIVE COOLING AND HEATING POTENTIAL IN VIETNAM USING GRAPHICAL METHOD AND TYPICAL METEOROLOGICAL YEAR WEATHER FILE

Ngày tải lên : 19/06/2015, 10:00

... improvement of various passive cooling and heating strategies and their combinations The weather in Hanoi is found to be naturally comfortable during only 23.6% of total time of a year whereas in Danang ... the thermal environment - Analytical determination and interpretation of thermal comfort using calculation of the PMV and PPD indices and local thermal comfort criteria Geneva, 2005 [7] The US ... weather data of any season, any month or any day can be separately printed out In this step, hourly meteorological parameters of Hanoi, Danang, and Hochiminh city were graphically printed on the...

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Analysis of transport phenomena and electrochemical reactions in a micro PEM fuel cell with nature inspired flow field design

Ngày tải lên : 09/09/2015, 10:17

... conditions are applied at the land area (interface between the bipolar plates and the gas diffusion layers) Neumann boundary conditions are applied at the interface between the gas channels and the gas ... concentration under the land area is smaller than that under the air inlet area The concentration of oxygen at the catalyst layer is balanced by the oxygen that is being consumed and the amount of ... the reaction propagates at the rate demanded by the current The activation overpotential can be divided into the anode and cathode overpotentials The anode and cathode activation overpotentials...

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Design and analysis of object allocation and replication algorithms in distributed databases for stationary and mobile computing systems

Ngày tải lên : 16/09/2015, 17:11

... Pitoura and Samaras in [55] provided a thorough and cohesive overview of recent advances in wireless and mobile data management The focus of [55] is on the impact of mobile computing on data management ... the ratio of a control-message transferring cost to an I/O cost and Cd is the ratio of a data-message transferring cost to an I/O cost On the other hand, in a MCE, since the bandwidth of wireless ... (deﬁned as the time instant between a transaction is submitted to the system and the time at which it is satisﬁed) of transactions, high data availability, and high system reliability/scalability,...

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Relevance of mineral nutrition and light quality for the accumulation of secondary metabolites in centella asiatica and hydrocotyle leucocephala

Ngày tải lên : 19/11/2015, 16:47

... contents of madecassoside and asiaticoside from sixty accessions of Centella asiatica of south India and the Andaman Islands: for cultivation and utility in cosmetic and herbal drug application ... the hypothesis that the increasing application of N, P, or K from to 150% of the amount in a standard Hoagland solution favors herb and leaf yield of C asiatica but decreases saponin and sapogenin ... Aschaffenburg, Germany) Every sample was assayed in duplicate Asiaticoside, madecassoside, asiatic acid, and madecassic acid are the quality determining saponins and sapogenins of C asiatica (Stahl-Biskup,...

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Improvement of nutrient removal and phosphorus recovery in the anaerobic/oxic/anoxic process combined with sludge ozonation and phosphorus adsorption

Ngày tải lên : 05/09/2013, 09:38

... (Chu et al., 2008; Cui and Jahng, 2004; Kamiya and Hirotsuji, 1998; Nagare et al., 2008; Sakai et al., 1997; Saktaywin et al., 2005; Suzuki et al., 2006; Yasui et al., 1996; Yasui and Shibata, 1994) ... was circulated back to the anaerobic tank and the oxic tank at an appropriate rate (Table 1) Table Operational conditions The hydraulic retention time (HRT) for influent wastewater was adjusted ... effective diameter of 0.7 mm (Japan Enviro Chemicals, Japan) The flow rate of the supernatant was set at 25 mL/min After phosphorus adsorption, the column was backwashed with 15 L of tap water to...

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Tài liệu Báo cáo khoa học: Altered expression of CD1d molecules and lipid accumulation in the human hepatoma cell line HepG2 after iron loading pptx

Ngày tải lên : 19/02/2014, 16:20

... further analysis From each sample, total RNA was isolated and DNAse treated using the RNeasy kit according to the manufacture speciﬁcations (Qiagen, Victoria, Australia) The total RNA concentration ... cells At the level of the hepatocyte, CD1d redistribution may inﬂuence quantitatively and qualitatively the intracellular lipid pool by either intracellular release and ⁄ or extracellular uptake At ... using a Kodak Digital Science DC40 camera and its associated software Band intensities are shown on the right and are expressed as the sum of all pixel intensity values in the band rectangle...

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PROSTHETIC REHABILITATION OF MISSING TEETH AND ORAL HEALTH IN THE ELDERLY pptx

Ngày tải lên : 05/03/2014, 18:20

... growth of Candida albicans on the surface of acrylic resin disks, and found that storing the disks in open air caused a loss of viability and death of Candida albicans Rinsing the dentures in the ... point of the maxillary alveolar crest was measured at the midline, and along the infraorbital vertical line and the zycomatic vertical line representing the sites of the first premolar and the ... the oral health of the aging patient is poorly documented Hardly any scientific data exist on the status and quality of prosthetic rehabilitation in the elderly As a part of the population-based...

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STAFF REPORT PREPARED FOR THE JOINT COMMITTEE ON WASHNGTON METROPOLITAN PROBLEMS ON SEWAGE DISPOSAL AND WATER POLLUTION IN THE WASHINGTON METROPOLITAN AREA ppt

Ngày tải lên : 06/03/2014, 15:21

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Báo cáo khoa học: Evolutionary origin and divergence of PQRFamide peptides and LPXRFamide peptides in the RFamide peptide family pdf

Ngày tải lên : 07/03/2014, 12:20

... (SPEIDPFWYVGRGVRPIGRFamide) Antiserum against lamprey PQRFa was conjugated to Protein A Sepharose 4B (Amersham Pharmacia Biotech) as an affinity ligand The brain extract was applied to the column and purified as ... complementary to nucleotides 708–727 (5¢-TCACT CACTCACACACTCAC-3¢); this synthesis was followed by dA-tailing of the cDNA with dATP and terminal transferase (Roche Diagnostics) The tailed cDNA was amplified ... the sea lamprey This is the first demonstration of the presence of RFamide peptides in the brain of any species of agnathans On the basis of the results of phylogenetic analysis and amino acid...

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Surfing the waves of globalization - Asia and financial lobalization in the context of the trilemma

Ngày tải lên : 15/03/2014, 11:21

... tài Bài nghiên cứu ‘’Surfing the Waves of Globalization: Asia and Financial Globalization in the Context of the Trilemma’’ Joshua Aizeman cộng (2010) cho thấy nhìn ba sách Do đó, phạm vi tiểu luận ... vectơ hai số ba số ba bất khả thi, là, MI (monetary independence - độc lập tiền tệ), ERS (exchange rate stability – ổn định tỉ giá), KAOPEN (financial openness – hội nhập tài chính) Aizenman cộng ... MI thấp, ERS thấp KAOPEN cao, Ai Cập ví dụ điển hình cho trường hợp, (A) Malaysia, Philippin, Thai Lan trùng khớp với TH ( C ), D thông qua nắm giữ IR cao cho phép kinh tế sau có mức độ ERS thấp,...

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