Numerous recipes exist for the clearing of plant tissues prior to examination as whole mounts (see annotated bibliography by Lersten 1967). Broadly speaking, these methods may be classified into 3 groups; mild, drastic and very drastic procedures, depending upon the severity with which the tissue is extracted by the clearing procedure. For some purposes mild procedures are all that are needed f...

In the Pingtung Plain of southern Taiwan, elevated levels of NO₃--N in groundwater have been reported. Therefore, efforts for assessing groundwater vulnerability are required as part of the critical steps to prevent and control groundwater pollution. This study makes a groundwater vulnerability assessment for the Pingtung Plain using an improved overlay and index-based DRASTIC model. The improv...

due to simple operation and no needs for expensive infrastructure construction to convey water from a source to farm lands, groundwater becomes the most important sources of agricultural water supply in iran. however, the contamination of aquifers is a major concern in many countries, specifically in areas without effective groundwater protection and management. therefore, groundwater vulnerabi...

Climate change is a key problem of the 21st century. mainly caused by anthropogenic CO2 emissions, and one solution to this capture store in deep coal seams, where it immobilized adsorption surface. Here we propose modify with methyl orange (MO), typical dye that also major pollutant hydrosphere removed thereby. Thus, raw MO-modified coals were characterized investigate their thermal stabilitie...

Figure 1. Preoperative (a and b) photographs demonstrating a drastic improvement in facial appearance.