The aim of this research was to study the flood pulse influence and the anthropic impact caused by bauxite tailings on the chemical composition of O. glumaepatula in Batata lake (PA, Brazil). Sampling was carried out in stands of O. glumaepatula in the low-water, filling, high-water, and drawdown periods in impacted and natural areas of Batata lake. During the low-water and drawdown periods the...

Water is a naturally circulating resource that is constantly recharged. Therefore, even though the stocks of water in natural and artificial reservoirs are helpful to increase the available water resources for human society, the flow of water should be the main focus in water resources assessments. The climate system puts an upper limit on the circulation rate of available renewable freshwater ...

One of the main problems faced by the users of the World Wide Web is that of a broken link in a hypertext, normally caused by the unavailability of a particular resource. The introduction of redundancy is the key mechanism to solve this problem. Unfortunately, the current infrastructure of the Web is based on a resource identification scheme that maps a resource identifier on a unique physical ...

Internet resources that focus on Legionella and legionnaires disease are presented. Web sites were selected on the basis of their content and adherence to suggested standards of medical Internet publishing. Free, accessible, English-language Web sites were categorized according to users' needs as follows: (1) those with comprehensive information on Legionella infection (including pathophysiolog...

Advances of modern technology, including the development of the Internet and the World Wide Web, have given clinicians and researches the opportunity to have immediate access to continuously updated information in various scientific fields. We compiled a list of World Wide Web resources of data from surveillance studies on antimicrobial resistance that may be useful to practitioners--especially...

I’VE BEEN TOLD that I can be a perfectionist—but I’m working on that and expect that I can improve myself. In the meantime, there are just so many things that seem to need doing, and they all seem to be things that a well-rounded person should be able to do. Find me at a concert, and I’ll be beating myself up for not knowing how to play a musical instrument. Find me on travel, and I’ll be regre...

This review is intended for several audiences. For those not yet using the World Wide Web (WWW), it provides an introduction and a roadmap to some important electronic databases and analytical programs. For more familiar users, it describes some Web sites in detail. The multi-faceted focus reflects the diverse resources of the Internet and a subset of particular use to microbiologists. Of equal...

Aluminum is one of the most abundant metals in world and plays an important role various industries, but synthesis bauxite into aluminum accompanied by serious environmental pollution, such as electricity consumption, carbon dioxide, toxic by-products. This paper analyzes development materials, specifically discusses how metal made recycled, ways to add value from perspective circular economics...