Free-living game can be an important source of dietary cadmium and lead; the question is whether exposure to these two elements is such that it might cause adverse health effects in the consumers. The aim of this study was to estimate dietary exposure to cadmium, lead, and mercury from free-living big game (fallow deer, roe deer, red deer, wild boar, and brown bear), and to mercury from small g...

This study deals with data about the acoustic properties of nasal vowels of the Twi language, spoken in Ghana, compared to the oral counterparts. Evidence from our data shows a general tendency whereby F2 and F3 of the nasal vowels are lower than the oral counterparts in both the short and long contexts. Acoustic data also reveal that nasal-oral contrast depends on the vowel type. Nasal vowels ...

On the calculation of the topographic wetness index: evaluation of different methods based on field observations R. Sørensen, U. Zinko, and J. Seibert Department of Environmental Assessment, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, P.O. Box 7050, 75007 Uppsala, Sweden Department of Ecology and Environmental Science, Umeå University, Uminova Science Park, 90187 Umeå, Sweden Department of Phy...

Through wall imaging (TWI) using microwave radar system is an experimental approach in real time to collect the information about the living/nonliving target object hidden behind the wall made of any dielectric material and unknown thickness. The true and exact information of the target object is dependent not only on the wall parameters (thickness and dielectric constant) but also on the opera...

The trade wind inversion (TWI) serves as an important stabilizing mechanism in the tropical North Atlantic (TNA) region, including Caribbean basin. Previous studies have diagnosed TWI using situ observations and radiosondes, typically over islands. However, relying on these point measurements are unable to discern climatology evolution of rest TNA. This study addresses this gap literature throu...