Anaerobic degradation of wild halophytes (Kalidium caspicum, Salicornia europaea and Climacoptera lanata) from solonchaks of Kyzylkum desert in comparison with conventional glycophyte Panicum coloratum was studied. Lab-scale reactors were fed with dried and milled plant biomass. Tests were operated under batch and continuous mode at mesophilic (M) and thermophilic (T) temperatures. High concent...

Four new dicaffeoylquinic acid derivatives and two known 3-caffeoylquinic acid derivatives were isolated from methanol extracts using the aerial parts of Salicornia herbacea. The four new dicaffeoylquinic acid derivatives were established as 3-caffeoyl-5-dihydrocaffeoylquinic acid, 3-caffeoyl-5-dihydrocaffeoylquinic acid methyl ester, 3-caffeoyl-4-dihydrocaffeoylquinic acid methyl ester, and 3,...

We investigate the effects of the institutional settings of the US health care system on individuals' life-cycle medical expenditures. Health is a form of general human capital; labor turnover and labor-market frictions prevent an employer-employee pair from capturing the entire surplus from investment in an employee’s health. Thus, the pair underinvests in health during working years, thereby ...

This work presents preliminary results about the use of TerraSAR-X imagery for mapping intertidal habitats (oyster parks, seagrass meadows of Zostera noltii, sediments) along coastal lagoons (Arcachon lagoon, France). The combination of SAR and optical data appears to be useful to improve the discrimination of the various sediment and vegetation covers into classification schemes. Unlike optica...

In the last talk of this conference, Joanne Walters-Wayland will discuss a continuum of minimizable properties of sublocales of a (completely regular) locale. By that is meant a property P such that above any dense sublocale S of a locale L there is a least sublocale having property P. Such properties induce a contraction of the lattice of prenuclei of the frame, i.e., an order-preserving map w...

A hybrid cordgrass, formed from a cross between Spartina alterniflora (Atlantic cordgrass) and S. foliosa (Pacific cordgrass), has recently spread within the intertidal zone of south San Francisco Bay. Sediment properties and macroinfaunal community structure were compared in patches invaded by Spartina hybrid and adjacent uninvaded patches at 3 sites in San Francisco Bay (2 tidal flats and 1 S...

Modern agriculture faces pressing problems, such as salinization that is a very common, but difficult to control and ameliorate process. Non-enzymatic compounds such as polyphenols and flavonoids are generally stimulated in response to bio-tic/abiotic stresses such as salinity (1). Halophytes are naturally salt-tolerant plants that may be potentially useful for economical (oilseed, forage, prod...

Floristic investigations on the eastern part of Adriatic coast in Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina led to discovery three glasswort taxa new for area: Arthrocaulon macrostachyum (Moric.) Piirainen et G. Kadereit Salicornia procumbens Sm. subsp. S. perennis Mill. All were recorded abandoned basins Tivat Saline Montenegro, while was also found Klek Peninsula Hercegovina. According IUCN criteria,...