abstract   background : the application of du emanation for first time contaminated certain areas in the south west region of iraq after the second gulf war (1991). these contaminated areas were discovered in 1994. radioactive contamination was detected using the nuclear enterprise pcm5/1 in soil samples collected from two regions near by grazing lands. this study was done for assessment of du ...

This paper will discuss about the role of the geopolitical location of South Africa in the development of movie and the cinema industry in this country. Despite of bringing ci-nema to South Africa by white Europeans, but the development of this phenomenon is mostly due to the geopolitical position of this country. It is interesting to know that ci-nema reached Africa in much the same time as it...

Recent meat demand models incorporate demand functions for cuts of meat rather than whole carcasses. However, parameters for “meat quality” are seldom included in such models. Modelling difficulty arises as meat cuts are heterogeneous in their quality attributes. Meat quality may be assessed by measurement of attributes including tenderness, juiciness and flavour. Cooking method and cooking tim...

Probiotics have been suggested to be of use in many diarrhoeal disorders, particularly in the prophylaxis and treatment of infectious diarrhoea. Several different preparations are available commercially and they are widely used but consistent scientific documentation of their efficacy is lacking. Although their putative mode of action is not known, non-pathogenic organisms may prevent or displa...

Maximizing the yield of taxol per tree is important for the best management of the yew resource. Therefore, the possibility of obtaining additional taxol from the wood was explored. Initial reports form our laboratory, in cooperation with the National Cancer Institute, indicated relatively high concentrations of taxol in Pacific yew heartwood. Although these taxol concentrations were only about...

The adsorption of Li and K atoms on the (001) surface of tungsten is found to exhibit remarkable differences in the surface core-level shifts (SCLS) of the W 4f level and in adsorbate-induced changes of the transition temperature of the substrate surface reconstruction. Density-functional theory calculations suggest that these results reflect mainly the different bonding geometry of the adatoms...

As an erudite book, all combinations of which reveal the harmonies preexisting between signs and numbers, the practical value of the Tarot is truly and above all marvelous-Eliphas Levi Originally published in New York, 1920 2 Introduction to the Study of Tarot 3 Preface This book aims to show how to use the Tarot cards for the purpose of evoking thought, and thus bringing to the surface of the ...

A shift in the dominant Symbiodinium species within a coral colony may allow rapid ac climatization to environmental stress, provided that the new symbiont is better suited to prevailing conditions. In this study, the Symbiodinium diversity in Pocillopora corals was examined following a cold-water bleaching event in the Gulf of California. Individual colonies were differentially im pacted by th...

The genus Phytophthora includes some of the most destructive plant pathogens affecting agricultural and native ecosystems and is responsible for a number of recent emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases of plants. Sudden oak death, caused by the exotic pathogen P. ramorum, has caused extensive mortality of oaks and tanoaks in Northern California, and has brought economic losses to US and ...