Purpose: To evaluate the effect of fullerene on chemical properties of naphazoline drug in   water by density functional theory (DFT) methods.   Materials and Methods: Naphazoline belongs to the imidazoline class of sympathomimetics.   The present study on naphazoline drug and its fullerene connected form were carried out using   computerized calculations of Gaussian program in b3lyp/6-31g le...

Phytoplankton size class variation is a good indicator of water dynamics changes, alga blooms or ecosystem change, for it usually corresponds to different phytoplankton group composition. Remote sensing technique is a very effective method for studying phytoplankton at large scale by virtue of synoptic view and large area cover. Here we detected seasonal and annual phytoplankton size class vari...

BACKGROUND This paper describes an occurence dataset, also including numerical abundance and biomass data, pertaining to the macrobenthic molluscan assemblages from a marine - lagoonal environmental transition. The study system was the soft-substrate benthoscape of the area of the Kalloni solar saltworks (Lesvos Island, Greece). Specifically, the study area extended from the infralittoral zone ...

Many scientists have worked out on the host-parasite relatiosship. The cestode parasites were attached mostly in the stomach and duodenal mucosa. Heavy infection with this cestode parasites caused inflammation, congestion(Khadap,2009). Lytocestus indicus is a caryophyllaeid cestode of fresh water fishes. During the present study on the helminth parasites of the fresh water fishes of Warangal, C...

The effect of tannery wastewater on the biochemical constituents of fresh water bivalve, Lamellidens marginalis was studied. The acute toxicity study was carried out to determine lethal concentration. Bivalves were exposed to different sublethal concentrations of tannery wastewater for 10 and 20 days. The biochemical changes in the protein, glycogen, lactic acid and cholesterol, in the tissues ...

Recently, a method has been developed that exploits the correlation properties of the ocean's ambient noise to measure water depth (a passive fathometer) and seabed layering [M. Siderius et al., J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 120, 1315-1323 (2006)]. This processing is based on the cross-correlation between the surface noise and the echo return from the seabed. To quantitatively study the dependency betwee...

Large rivers are commonly regulated by damming, yet the effects of such disruption on prokaryotic communities have seldom been studied. We describe the effects of the three large reservoirs of the Ebro River (NE Iberian Peninsula) on bacterioplankton assemblages by comparing several sites located before and after the impoundments on three occasions. We monitored the abundances of several bacter...

Bedload and water column traps were used with simultaneous wind and water velocity measurements to study postlarval macrofaunal dispersal dynamics in Manukau Harbour, New Zealand. A 12-fold range in mean wind condition resulted in large differences in water flow (12-fold), sediment flux (285-fold), and trap collection of total number of individuals (95-fold), number of the dominant infaunal org...

Temporal responses of indigenous bacterial populations and proteolytic enzyme (i.e., aminopeptidase) activities in the bacterioplankton assemblages from 3 separate freshwater environments were examined after exposure to various zinc (Zn) concentrations under controlled microcosm conditions. Zn concentrations (ranging from 0 to 10 μmol/L) were added to water samples collected from the Kalamazoo ...

A participatory research model was used in six village communities in the Central Region of the North West Province of South Africa in order to achieve the following broad objectives: to obtain information on the challenges owners face in raising livestock in these areas and to evaluate the livestock owners' level of knowledge of internal parasites in their animals. Information obtained at part...