The analysis of environmental occurrence microplastic (MP) particles has gained notable attention within the past decade. An effective risk assessment MP litter requires elucidating sources particles, their pathways distribution and, ultimately, sinks. Therefore, sampling to be done in high frequency, both spatially and temporally, resulting a number samples analyze. Microspectroscopy technique...

Due to the lack of a stable technetium isotope, and the high mobility and long half-life, (99)Tc is considered to be one of the most important radionuclides in safety assessment of environmental radioactivity as well as nuclear waste management. (99)Tc is also an important tracer for oceanographic research due to the high technetium solubility in seawater as TcO(4)(-). A number of analytical me...

It is now common to survey microbial communities by sequencing nucleic acid material extracted in bulk from a given environment. Comparative methods are needed that indicate the extent to which two communities differ given data sets of this type. UniFrac, which gives a somewhat ad hoc phylogenetics-based distance between two communities, is one of the most commonly used tools for these analyses...

BACKGROUND In Malaysia, researchers and medical practitioners are unfamiliar with Naegleria infections. Thus little is known about the existence of pathogenic Naegleria fowleri, and the resultant primary amoebic meningoencephalitis (PAM) is seldom included in the differential diagnosis of central nervous system infections. This study was conducted to detect the presence of Naegleria species in ...

Iodine is found in organic forms in plants and animals and in inorganic forms in natural water samples. Methods of identification and quantitative determination for iodine species are decided by the types of compound and the matrices in which they occur. Iodine is an essential element and specific radioimmunoassay methods have been devised for physiologically important compounds (thyroxine and ...