AIM To investigate effects on men's health and well-being of higher prostate cancer (PCa) investigation and treatment levels in similar populations. PARTICIPANTS PCa survivors in Ireland where the Republic of Ireland (RoI) has a 50% higher PCa incidence than Northern Ireland (NI). METHOD A cross-sectional postal questionnaire was sent to PCa survivors 2-18 years post-treatment, seeking info...

in the recent years, agricultural soils have received more chemicals in various forms for higher yields. this may result in the accumulation of metals in soils which subsequently may be transferred into the agricultural crops. in the present investigation, nickel content of 58 composite soil samples and also agricultural crops, is studied. ni in samples of soil and agricultural products were ex...

M31 are divalent and trivalent metal cations, respectively, and A is an interlayer anion that may include The formation of Ni surface precipitates on natural soil materials NO3, silicate, or water] in which the metals are aligned may occur during sorption under ambient environmental conditions. in brucite-like octahedral sheets with anions in the interIn this study, we examined protonand ligand...

Injection of spin currents into solids is crucial for exploring spin physics and spintronics. There has been significant progress in recent years in spin injection into high-resistivity materials, for example, semiconductors and organic materials, which uses tunnel barriers to circumvent the impedance mismatch problem; the impedance mismatch between ferromagnetic metals and high-resistivity mat...

In the recent years, agricultural soils have received more chemicals in various forms for higher yields. This may result in the accumulation of metals in soils which subsequently may be transferred into the agricultural crops. In the present investigation, nickel content of 58 composite soil samples and also agricultural crops, is studied. Ni in samples of soil and agricultural products were ex...

The Ni(II) atom in the title porphyrin complex, [Ni(C(36)H(16)Br(4)N(4)S(4))], is in a square-planar geometry defined by four pyrrole N atoms. There is considerable buckling in the porphyrin ring with the dihedral angles between the N(4) donor set and the pyrrole rings being in the range 17.0 (3)-18.8 (3)°. Each of the six-membered chelate rings is twisted about an Ni-N bond and the dihedral an...

Resistance to the action of insulin affects fatty acid delivery to the liver, fatty acid synthesis and oxidation within the liver, and triglyceride export from the liver. To understand the metabolic consequences of hepatic fatty acid synthesis, partitioning, oxidation, and net liver fat content in the fasted and postprandial states, we used stable-isotope tracer methodologies to study healthy m...

The Hai River Basin (HRB) is one of the most polluted river basins in China. The basin suffers from various types of pollutants including heavy metals and nutrients due to a high population density and rapid economic development in this area. We assessed the relationship between heavy metal accumulation by periphyton playing an important role in fluvial food webs and eutrophication in the HRB. ...

BACKGROUND Sweet fennel (Foeniculum vulgare Mill.) is one of the precious spices. Almost all parts of fennel plant are edible. The herb is used as carminative, digestive, diuretic, cosmetic and medicine. METHODS A 0.5 g of the oven dried fennel fruit and soil samples were digested by wet-digestion method. The levels of selected elements (Ca, Mg, Fe, Mn, Cu, Cr, Co, Zn, Ni, Cd and Pb) were det...