Hourly total gaseous mercury (TGM) concentrations at three monitoring sites (receptors) in Ontario were predicted for four selected periods at different seasons in 2002 using the Stochastic Time-Inverted Lagrangian Transport (STILT) model, which transports Lagrangian air parcels backward in time from the receptors to provide linkages to the source region in the upwind area. The STILT model was ...

Mercury (Hg) is one of the trace toxic and bioaccumulative global pollutants, due to its long atmospheric lifetime, it presents a significant challenge. The present study (1) utilizes total gaseous mercury (TGM) measurements made around former Hg-cell chlor-alkali plant (CAP) located in Pavlodar, Kazakhstan, predicts spatial distribution Hg over premises nearby city. It then (2) estimates envir...

OBJECTIVE To report the optical coherence tomography (OCT) findings of 27 eyes treated with intravitreal bevacizumab for intraretinal and subretinal vascular activity associated with atypical choroidal nevi. METHODS This was an Internal Review Board-approved retrospective review of 27 eyes of 27 patients with choroidal nevus treated for secondary vascular activity with intravitreal injections...

“Comparison of the Inflammatory Potency of Bacteria in Their Cell Wall Components in theLung.” JM Gassman, PS Thorne, M O’Neill, J Phipps, K Kulhankova, C Duchaine, Toxicological Sciences,The Toxicologist, March 2000, 39 Annual Meeting Society of Toxicology. March 2000. Abstract: “A National Survey of Endotoxin in House Dust”, PS Thorne, K Kulhankova, M. O’Neill, PJVojta, W Friedman...

This paper presents exploratory research evaluating a conceptual structure for the description of visual content of images. The structure, which was developed from empirical research in several fields (e.g., Computer Science, Psychology, Information Studies, etc.), classifies visual attributes into a Pyramid containing four syntactic levels (type/technique, global distribution, local structure,...

Core level photoemission spectra of CO and N;! using snyhrotron radiation excitation have been measured in order t o study the neat threshold photon energy range of the K-shell satellites. The C I s and N 1s r-r* satellites show very similar behavior characterized by increasing intensity of the first satellite and decreasing intensity of the second satellite towards threshold. In contrast t o t...

Die bestehenden Tiergesundheitsmanagementsysteme in der Schweineproduktion unterscheiden sich deutlich in der Organisation, den Inhalten und insbesondere der Datengrundlage. Daher gestaltet es sich schwierig, Daten zwischen den Systemen zu vergleichen und auszutauschen. Dies gilt nicht nur für die Systemlösungen in Deutschland, sondern auch für die Lösungen in den Nachbarländern Dänemark und de...