To improve its resilience to increasing climatic uncertainty, the City of Cape Town (the City) aims become a water sensitive city by 2040. undertake this challenge, means measure progress is needed that quantifies urban systems at scale enables whole-of-system approach management. Using an metabolism framework, we (1) provide first city-scale quantification cycle integrating natural and anthrop...

As long as lakes and reservoirs are an important component of the global carbon cycle, monitoring of their metabolism is required, especially in the tropics. In particular, the response of deep reservoirs to water-level fluctuations (WLF) is an understudied field. Here, we study community metabolism through oxygen dynamics in a deep monomictic reservoir where high WLF (~10 m) have recently occu...

during the past two centuries, production and consumption of nitrate, especially in agricultural field, have been increased considerably. currently many countries in the world including iran encounter to a high nitrate level in drinking water. the main reason is the seepage of agricultural runoff and municipal and industrial wastewater to water resources, particularly groundwater. from the old ...

Fluctuations in the prevailing environmental conditions, including light availability and intensity, CO2/O2 ratio, temperature, nutrient or water supply, require rapid metabolic switches to maintain proper metabolism [...]

growth blood pressure some aspects of pregnancy and childbirth including stimulation of uterine contractions during childbirth breast milk production sex organ functions in both males and females thyroid gland function the conversion of food into energy (metabolism) water and osmolarity regulation in the body water balance via the control of reabsorption of water by the kidneys temperature regu...

The role of bicarbonated mineral waters on lipid metabolism and lipoprotein concentrations in man has scarcely been investigated. The present study aimed to investigate whether drinking sodium bicarbonated mineral water affects postprandial cholesterol and triacylglycerol metabolism in postmenopausal women. In a three-way, randomised, crossover study, eighteen healthy postmenopausal women consu...

Although the mechanisms of nodule N(2) fixation in legumes are now well documented, some uncertainty remains on the metabolic consequences of water deficit. In most cases, little consideration is given to other organs and, therefore, the coordinated changes in metabolism in leaves, roots, and nodules are not well known. Here, the effect of water restriction on exclusively N(2)-fixing alfalfa (M...

The doubly labeled water tecbnique represents an unobtrusive and noninvasive means lo measure total daily energy expenditure in free-living human subjects who are unaware that energy expenditure is being measured. When combined with measurement of resting energy expenditure, the doubly labeled water technique can also be used to estimate energy expenditure related to physical activity. The rela...