Large areas of arable lands in China have been contaminated by heavy metals, which cadmium (Cd) contamination was the most prevalent. Cd accumulation main food crops and leafy vegetables grown Cd-contaminated fields has aroused considerable attention recent years. The present study investigated pollution farmland soils Qujing city Yunnan Province, China. By comparing uptake capacities different...

Introduction: Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) is a real time and minimal invasive imaging modality for detection of lesions in tissues even when their structures show no changes. Early detection of lesion with EIT depends on difference between electrical impedance of targeted tissue and its surroundings. Therefore, finding a contrast agent for EIT that increase this diffe...

Donald E. Low1 and Gerald D. Wright2 1University of Toronto and 2McMaster University, Toronto, Ontario, Canada and 1,2Canadian Bacterial Diseases Network, Calgary, Alberta, Canada Despite legislation in the United Kingdom (UK) targeted at controlling the use of antimicrobials in food-producing animals, the farming industry commonly uses these drugs therapeutically, prophylactically, and/or for ...

There have been many published studies aiming to identify temporal changes in river flow time series, most of which use monotonic trend tests such as the Mann–Kendall test. Although robust to both the distribution of the data and incomplete records, these tests have important limitations and provide no information as to whether a change in variability mirrors a change in magnitude. This study d...

abstract genomic dna extraction with high quantity and quality is the basic necessities of molecular genetic studies. the aim of this study is the applicability of different dna extraction methods as the easiest and fastest methods for and their efficiency with different tissue qualities (foot, siphon, harpoon) from marine cone snail conus coronatus, mollusca with phenol-chloroform, ammonium ac...

hormonally active agents are widespread in the environment and exist in the human diet. there isinsufficient knowledge regarding the influence of phytochemicals on the pathophysiology of the malereproductive system. kiwi is a rich source of phytochemicals such as flavones (with estrogenic activity),serotonin and vitamin c. these components can influence the hormones and interfere with reproduct...