Atmospheric deposition is an important pathway for moisture, nutrient, and pollutant exchange among the atmosphere, forest, and soils. Previous work has shown the importance of proximity to the forest edge to chemical fluxes in throughfall, but far less research has considered stemflow. This study examined the difference in acid neutralization capacity (ANC) of stemflow of nineteen Liriodendron...

[1] Weathering of olivine basalt by H2SO4-HCl aqueous solutions at the conditions of early Mars was investigated through numerical modeling in a system open with respect to CO2 and O2 only. The model includes dissolution rates of primary and secondary minerals and oxidation rate of aqueous Fe, as well as chemical equilibration among solutes, dissolved gases, and precipitates. The results reveal...

Objectives : Drug induced-phospholipidosis is a pathological state caused by repeated administration of cationic amphiphilic drugs. The mechanism of drug-induced phospholipidosis is unclear. Several hypotheses have been proposed, such as inhibition of phospholipase, upregulated phospholipid synthesis, increased uptake of phospholipids, and inhibition of intracellular phospholipid traffic. Among...

Altogether 562 sheep and goat blood serum samples were collected from livestock located in Konya, Burdur, and their environs in Turkey. The samples were tested for bluetongue virus antibodies by ELISA and serum neutralization test (SNT). Fifty-four (17.1%) out of 315 sheep serum samples from Konya and 1 (1.5%) out of 66 sheep serum samples from Burdur were detected as seropositive. Seventy-thre...

The oleaginous yeast Trichosporon fermentans can degrade oils and fats in soybean oil refinery effluent (SORE) accumulate intracellular lipids. Effective harvesting techniques for yeasts improve their utilization efficiency. Considering its excellent adhesion properties, Cunninghamella echinulata, a lipid-producing fungus, was introduced to harvest the SORE via two-step process. Compared with C...

The geologic characteristics (ore mineralogy, geochemistry, host rock lithology, etc.) that economic geologists use to classify mineral deposits are key to understanding their environmental signatures. Mineralogic characterization and chemical analysis are among the many scientific tools that can be applied to mining-environmental prediction, mitigation, and remediation (Plumlee and Logsdon, 19...

This study demonstrates sulfite pretreatment to overcome recalcitrance of lignocellulose (SPORL) for robust bioconversion of hardwoods. With only about 4% sodium bisulfite charge on aspen and 30-min pretreatment at temperature 180 degrees C, SPORL can achieve near-complete cellulose conversion to glucose in a wide range of pretreatment liquor of pH 2.0-4.5 in only about 10 h enzymatic hydrolysi...