Quantitative analysis of the factors influencing heavy metal migration could be useful for controlling heavy metal migration. In this paper, a geographical detector was used to calculate the contributions of and interactions among factors in Huanjiang County, South China, covering an area of 273 km2. In this paper, nine factors were analyzed. The results showed that, among these factors, soil t...

A survey is reported of infant feeding practice at the time of discharge from a single maternity ward. It is shown that a change in the attitude of nursing staff increased the number of mothers breast feeding their infants and eliminated the practice of giving the infants formula feed complements. This change in attitude, however, did nothing to prevent the rapid decline in lactation after leav...

and water balance in insect eggs, ion and water transport across epithelia and the physiology of reproduction. This is an excellent volume, well edited and well documented with references useful to a wide range of basic biological scientists. The contributors have two things in common: they have accepted the eminent suitability of insects as vehicles to elucidate principles in cellular physiolo...

Prostate Cancer is the second most frequently diagnosed cancer and the sixth leading cause of cancer death in males. It accounts for 14% of the total new cancer cases and 6% of the total cancer deaths in males in 2008 [1]. The incidence and mortality rates were different in diverse geographic regions and racial ethnic population. But lack of consistency between studies additionally indicates th...