Lead contamination is of great concern because of its adverse effects on human health, especially children. This research evaluated the effects of phosphate rock on chemical associations of Pb in eight Pb-contaminated soils using a sequential extraction procedure. The chemical fractions are operationally defined by an extraction sequence in the order of increasing ability to dissolve Pb of lowe...

A fast-growing theoretical literature on the political economy of reform has provided a sizable collection of models that have deepened our understanding concerning how distributional conflict manifests itself in the political process and can prevent efficiency-enhancing economic reform from taking place (see e.g., Allan Drazen [2000 Ch. 10, 13] for an insightful review). Unfortunately, systema...

9 Country Comparisons of Human Stroke Research Since 2001 A Bibliometric Study Kjell Asplund, MD; Marie Eriksson, PhD; Olle Persson, PhD (Stroke. 2012;43:830-837.)

Comparative Performance of Multi-view Stereoscopic and Mammographic Display Modalities for Breast Lesion Detection by Lincoln Jon Webb Medical Physics Graduate Program Duke University Date:_______________________ Approved: ___________________________ Ehsan Samei, Supervisor ___________________________ Joseph Lo ___________________________ Sua Yoo An abstract of a thesis submitted in partial ful...

substituted BiFeO3 epitaxial thin films at morphotropic phase boundaries Daisuke Kan, Ching-Jung Cheng, Valanoor Nagarajan, and Ichiro Takeuchi Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA Institute for Chemical Research, Kyoto University, Gokasyo Uji, Kyoto 611-0011, Japan School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of N...

PURPOSE This study evaluates the extent to which bilingual children produce the same or overlapping responses on tasks assessing semantic skills in each of their languages and whether classification analysis based on monolingual or conceptual scoring can accurately classify the semantic development of typically developing (TD) bilingual children. METHOD In Study 1, 55 TD children (ages 4;0 [y...

O estudo de Trattinnickia burserifolia levou ao isolamento dos triterpenos conhecidos ursanos α-amirenona, α-amirina, 3-epi-α-amirina, 3α,16β-diidroxiurs-12-eno; oleananos β-amirenona, βamirina, 3-epi-β-amirina, 3α,16β-diidroxiolean-12-eno; tirucalanos ácidos 3α-hidroxitirucal-8,24dien-21-óico, 3α-hidroxitirucal-7,24-dien-21-óico, e 3-oxotirucal-8,24-dien-21-óico; damaranos dammarenediol-II e 3...