OBJECTIVE To evaluate the use of urinary mercapturic acids as a biomarker of human exposure to allyl chloride (3-chloropropene) (AC). During three regular shut down periods in a production factory for AC, both types of variables were measured in 136 workers involved in maintenance operations. METHODS Potential airborne exposure to AC was measured by personal air monitoring in the breathing zo...

We propose an amplitude calibration strategy for ALMA which attempts to reach the 1 % precision for absolute calibration. Key points and major difficulties are identified. Polarization is ignored in this first step. We first review the properties of possible calibration sources. Planets and specially giant planets satellites are the preferred reference sources for flux calibration. Asteroids ar...

The ALMA Scienti c Advisory Committee (hereafter ASAC) was formed in late 1999, as requested by the ALMA Coordinating Committee (hereafter ACC). The role of the ASAC is to provide scienti c advice to the ACC, the ALMA Executive Committee (hereafter AEC) and the project, via the project scientists. As requested, the ASAC developed its own charter, which we supply as Appendix A. The ASAC decided ...

We present results of ALMA (Cycle-0) observations of the CO (6-5) line emission and the 435μm continuum of two nearby luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) NGC 34 (a major merger with an AGN) and NGC 1614 (a minor merger with a circum-nuclear starburst). Using receivers in the highest frequency ALMA band available (Band-9), these observations achieved the best angular resolutions (∼ 0′′.25) for AL...

The Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) is a joint project between astronomical organizations in Europe and North America. ALMA will consist of at least 64 12-meter antennas operating in the millimeter and sub-millimeter range, with baselines up to 14 km. It will be located at an altitude above 5000m in the Chilean Atacama desert. The ALMA Common Software (ACS) provides a software infrastruct...

Mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs) are autonomous infrastructure less networks that can establish limited range, low cost networks for sharing data between devices. In MANET every node can access only local network but if a node in MANET want to access the Internet, it need to discover an Internet gateway. To discover the gateway, the node either may depend on periodic gateway advertisement or can...

⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail addresses: [email protected] (D. Wein [email protected] (J. Launay), eiluned.pearce@p [email protected] (R.I.M. Dunbar), l.stewart@gol http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.evolhumbehav.2015.10.002 1090-5138/© 2016 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Article history: Initial receipt 7 January 2015 Final revision received 13 October 2015

a Unidad de Hepatología, Hospital Clinic, Institut d’Investigacions Biomèdiques August Pi i Sunyer (IDIBAPS), Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digestivas (CIBERehd), Barcelona, España b Unitat de Suport a la Recerca (USR) Metropolitana Nord, Institut d’Investigació en Atenció Primaria (IDIAP) Jordi Gol, Centro de Investigación en Red de Enfermedades Hepáticas y Digesti...

Lampreys are extant representatives of agnathans. Descriptions of lamprey development, physiology and genome have provided critical insights into early evolution of vertebrate traits. However, efficient means for genetic manipulation in agnathan species have not been developed, hindering functional studies of genes in these important Evo-Devo models. Here, we report a CRISPR/Cas system optimize...

Situations are entities that have been discussed in philosophy, ontology and computer science for applications in the field of knowledge representation, conceptual modelling and natural language semantic. On the basis of an extensive literature review, situations and entities we call situoids, which are more basic than situations, will be discussed and their ontological features investigated. A...