This article addresses the issue of estimating probability of misclassification (PoM), when assessing the status of a water body (w.b.). The standard deviation of a monitoring data is considered a good measure of the uncertainty of the assessed w.b. status. However, when PoM is to be estimated from the biological data, a problem caused by too few monitoring data emerges. The problem is overcome...

A comparison was made of the incidence of postoperative myalgia (POM) and fasciculations when atracurium (ATR) or d-Tubocurarine (DTC) was given prior to succinylcholine (SDC) for facilitation of tracheal intubation. The subjects were 44 ASA physical status I or II outpatient females undergoing laparoscopy. They were assigned to one of three groups: Group 1 received 0.025 mg/kg ATR; Group 2 rec...

The hydrothermal synthesis of two new inorganic-organic hybrid materials in which PDA (PDA = 1,10-phenanthroline-2,9-dicarboxylate) is connected to a well-defined Keggin-type polyoxometalate anion (POM) and a Ln(III) cation (POM = [SiW12O40]4−; Ln = Eu3+ (1), Er3+ (2)), are reported. These hybrids are characterized by elemental analyses, IR spectra and single-crystal X-ray diffraction. Single-c...

Particulate organic matter (POM) is an important source of energy in aquatic systems, where decomposition rates have traditionally been studied using the litter-bag technique. However, this method has limitations for estimating in situ decomposition rates, especially for fine particles. In this study the litter-bag technique is combined with measurements of microbial enzyme activities to estima...

A temporal sensory code occurs in posterior medial (POm) thalamus of the rat vibrissa system, where the latency for the spike rate to peak is observed to increase with increasing frequency of stimulation between 2 and 11 Hz. In contrast, the latency of the spike rate in the ventroposterior medial (VPm) thalamus is constant in this frequency range. We consider the hypothesis that two factors are...

Producing manure-based fertilizers (MBFs) with specific nutrient ratios is a solution to overpassing the imbalance of nitrogen and phosphorus in manures, way recycle manure’s nutrients, promoting sustainable agricultural practices. Several MBFs different tailored N:P (0.5:1, 1:1 2:1) were produced determine their agronomic value pot experiment oat (0.5:1 ratio: cattle manure pig slurry (CaM+PiS...

BACKGROUND Traffic exhaust, refineries and industrial facilities are major sources of air toxics identified by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) for their potential risk to human health. In utero and early life exposures to air toxics such as benzene and 1,3-butadiene, which are known leukemogens in adults, may play an etiologic role in childhood leukemia that comprises the ma...

A new structure related to previously reported structure of 12-tungstoborate Keggin-type polyoxometalate, K5[BW12O40], was synthesized and its characterization by single crystal X-ray diffraction shows the polymorph structure. Further attempts have been performed to provide three component compounds based on L-proline, lanthanoid cation and K5[BW12O40] (BW12 (II)) under hydrothermal conditions ...

The Cover Feature shows the photocatalytic hydrogen production by dual Ru(II)-dye sensitized layered niobate oxide with intercalated Pt cocatalyst in presence of redox-reversible M-substituted polyoxometalate anions (M-POM, M = VIV, MnII). In their Research Article, A. Kobayashi and co-workers found that activity is remarkably higher MnII-POM aq. than VIV-POM despite comparable redox potentials...

We consider the simplest representative of class multiply branched polymer macromolecules, known as a pom-pom structure. The molecule consists backbone linear chain terminated by two branching points with functionalities (numbers side chains) f1 and f2, respectively. In symmetrical case, considered in present study, one has = f2 f total number chains F 2f + 1. Whereas rheological behaviour melt...