The natural nighttime light environment of the earth has been significantly transformed by human activities. Such “light pollution” has a profound influence on ecosystems. Protected areas (PAs) play key ecological functions and are only effective at low light pollution levels or without any light pollution. In China, with rapid population growth and high urbanization rates, light pollution in P...

pollution control is based on correctly measuring pollutant concentrations but, at the moment,the principal european cities only monitor pollution levels by means of a few fixed stations co-located inselected points of the urban layout far from hotspots and/or by means of meteorological prediction models offuture pollution. few cities integrate the information from both sources. the implementat...

objective(s): to evaluate the protective effect of erdosteine, an antiapoptotic and antioxidant agent, on torsion–detorsion evoked histopathological changes in experimental ovarian ischemia-reperfusion (ir) injury. materials and methods: eighteen female wistar albino rats were used in control, ir, and ir+edosteine (ir-e) groups, (n=6 in each). the ir-e group received the erdosteine for seven da...

this paper seeks to understand the role of the cost of pollution from vehicles fuel in feasibility of cng national plan. optimal control theory is used with two target functions, one with and another without the cost of pollution. model results indicate the high importance of pollution cost in the project feasibility, in such a way that without consideration of that the project will be infeasib...

Pollution in P2P file sharing occurs when a large number of decoy files are injected into the P2P system. Since peers “serve” each other in the P2P file sharing system, it is obvious that pollution dynamics are closely related to user behavior. Therefore, we first conduct a human subject study to investigate user behavior. We identify the factors that are key to model user behavior, e.g., coope...

background: renal ischemia reperfusion (ir), one of the most important causative mechanisms of acute kidney injury, is a major clinical problem that occurs in some hospitalized patients. the aim of this study was to investigate the effects of hydroxytyrosol (ht) on renal ischemia-reperfusion injury in mice. methods: male mice were randomly assigned to three groups (n = 9): (1) sham operated, (2...