Total dissolved mercury concentrations (HgT) were measured in groundwaters collected along a flow path within a deep, confined aquifer (i.e., the Carrizo Sand) in southeastern Texas, USA, along with major solutes, pH, and redox sensitive parameters that include dissolved iron species [Fe(II), Fe(III)] and sulfide [S(-II)] concentrations. Mercury concentrations range from below detection (<0.43 ...

یکی از پارامترهای مهم محیط­های پخش نوترون، طول نوترون حرارتی است. روش مرسوم محاسباتی استفاده کد MCNP برمبنای توزیع شار در محیط و برازش تابع ریاضی مربوطه بر آن این پژوهش، روشی نوین که مبنای کارت PTRAC است، ارایه شده پارامتر برای آب­سبک اساس روش­های فوق محاسبه با مقادیر گزارش مراجع مقایسه گردیده تطابق خوبی نیز مشاهده حسن فوق، عدم نیاز به علاوه فرض می­شود تا محل چشمه، فاصله­ی کافی وجود دارد. مسأله...

A new concept for household and large-scale safe drinking water production is presented. Raw water is successively filtered through a series of sand and iron filters. Sand filters mostly remove suspended particles (media filtration) and iron filters remove anions, cations, micropollutants, natural organic matter, and micro-organisms including pathogens (reactive filtration). Accordingly, treatm...

A new species of abertellid sand dollar, Abertella miskellyi n. sp., is described from the Miocene Camarones Formation of Patagonia, southern Argentina. The new taxon corroborates the existence of the genus in South America, given that Abertella is most common in the southeastern USA and the eastern coast of Central America. It is characterized by a unique basicoronal circle, in which the inter...

ground water is the major source of drinking water in rural and semi-urban areas of assam. it contains an excessive amount of iron (1 to 10 mg/l). people living in rural and semi-urban areas of assam uses indigenous household iron filter units – developed using community prepared wooden charcoal (cpwc) and river sand (rs) as filter media. cpwc and rs processed and respectively termed as process...

Organisms with external fertilization are often sperm limited, and in echinoids, larger eggs have a higher probability of fertilization than smaller eggs. This difference is thought to be a result of the more frequent sperm-egg collisions experienced by larger targets. Here we report how two components of egg target size, the egg cell and jelly coat, contributed to fertilization success in a se...

Complex life cycles have evolved independently numerous times in marine animals as well as in disparate algae. Such life histories typically involve a dispersive immature stage followed by settlement and metamorphosis to an adult stage on the sea floor. One commonality among animals exhibiting transitions of this type is that their larvae pass through a 'precompetent' period in which they do no...