From the late 19th century, Africa has faced heavy exploitation of its natural resources with increasing land/water pollution, and several described species have already become extinct or close to extinction. This could also be the case for marine nematodes, which are the most abundant and diverse benthic group in marine sediments, and play major roles in ecosystem functioning. Compared to Euro...

The occurrence of methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) and gasoline hydrocarbons was examined in three types of studies of ground water conducted by the U.S. Geological Survey: major aquifer surveys, urban land-use studies, and agricultural land-use studies. The detection frequency of MTBE was dependent on the study type, with the highest detection frequency in urban land-use studies. Only 13 ground ...

in recent years, a potential connection between human intake of aluminum and alzheimer’s disease has drawn attention to the aluminum concentration in drinking water. it is therefore of interest to investigate the aluminum concentration m drinking water, produced under different circumstances. a random selection of 152 water samples were taken by the supply source including ground, surface and a...

Potential Application to Studies of Pesticide Transport to California Ground Water. The purpose of this memo is to briefly summarize (i) methods for distinguishing different source contributions to shallow ground water using stable isotope markers, and (ii) methods for age-dating shallow ground waters using various environmental tracers. I. INTRODUCTION The Pesticide Contamination Prevention Ac...

In this paper, the rare earth mining area of southern Ganzhou in Jiangxi Province, China is taken as a study area. And the ecology quality evaluation mode based on remote sensing technology was built up to assess the ecology equality status of the opencast mine area. In order to determine the influence sphere on the surrounding ecology quality, the buffer zone method was introduced. The result ...

Clarithromycin (CLA), a broad-spectrum macrolide, is a poorly soluble drug with dissolution rate limited absorption. The aim of this investigation was to prepare CLA nanoparticles from a ternary ground mixture in the presence of sodium lauryl sulfate (SLS) and polyvinyl pyrrolidone (PVP) as co-grinding water-soluble compounds, in order to improve the drug dissolution rate. Different weight rati...