Groundwater is a vital water resource in arid and semi-arid areas. Diurnal groundwater table fluctuations are widely used to quantify rainfall recharge evapotranspiration (ETg). To assess resources for sustainable use, ETg were estimated using the diurnal at three sites along section with different depths (DWT) within wetland of Mukai Lake Ordos Plateau, Northwest China. The level was monitored...

Weykamp et al. recently reported on their efforts toward the harmonization of carbohydrate-deficient transferrin (CDT) measurements in serum (1). Alcohol biomarkers play a key role in the identification of alcohol abuse, a chronic disorder with enormous health and legal implications. CDT is a widely used biomarker for the detection of excessive alcohol use that has a high diagnostic sensitivity...

Abstract On the basis of gyrokinetic theory, we derive nonlinear equations for zonal flow (ZF) generation in intermediate-scale electron temperature gradient (ETG) turbulence (with wavelength much shorter than ion Larmor radius but longer radius) nonuniform tokamak plasmas. Both spontaneous and forced ZFs are kept on same footing. The resultant Schrödinger equation ETG amplitude is characterize...

The first toroidal, gyrokinetic, electromagnetic simulations of small scale plasma turbulence are presented. The turbulence considered is driven by gradients in the electron temperature. It is found that electron temperature gradient (ETG) turbulence can induce experimentally relevant thermal losses in magnetic confinement fusion devices. For typical tokamak parameters, the transport is essenti...

Ethyl glucuronide (EtG) determination is increasingly used in clinical and forensic toxicology to document ethanol consumption. The enzymes involved in EtG production, as well as potential interactions with common drugs of abuse, have not been extensively studied. Activities of human liver (HLM), kidney (HKM), and intestinal (HIM) microsomes, as well as of 12 major human recombinant UDP-glucuro...

An in vivo study was conducted to assess the effects of the consumption of Astrocaryum aculeatum Amazon Meyer (tucumã) in the treatment of diet-induced dyslipidemia in sedentary and exercised Wistar rats. With an average weight of 350 grams, 40 male rats were divided into 4 subgroups of 10. The sedentary control group (SCG) was fed with commercial feed, while the sedentary treatment group (STG)...

1. In discussions on how to develop a scientifically robust assessment of the eutrophication status expected after implementation of agreed measures, ETG 2003 concluded that OSPAR Contracting Parties currently lacked the necessary tools to develop an assessment that would go beyond the assessment already agreed and published by OSPAR 2001. In the JAMP, a further assessment of the expected eutro...

BACKGROUND Considerable lives and money could be saved if one could detect early stages of lapsing/relapsing behavior in addicted persons (e.g., in safety-sensitive workplaces) and could disclose harmful drinking in social drinkers. Due to the serious public health problem of alcohol use and abuse worldwide, markers of alcohol use have been sought. Both ethyl glucuronide (EtG) and phosphatidyl ...

We present deep BV I observations of the core of M35 and a nearby comparison field obtained at the WIYN 3.5m telescope under excellent seeing conditions. These observations probe to V > 26, and display the lower main sequence in BV and V I CMDs down to V = 23.3 and 24.6, respectively. At these faint magnitudes the background Galactic field stars are far more numerous than the cluster stars, yet...

We present preliminary observational results on tidal synchronization in detached solar-type binary stars in the open clusters M35 (NGC2168; ∼ 150 Myr) and M34 (NGC1039; ∼ 250 Myr). M35 and M34 provide populations of close late-type binaries with ages that make them attractive observational tests of models of tidal synchronization during the early main-sequence phase. A combined dataset of stel...