BACKGROUND, AIM, AND SCOPE Diffusive gradients in thin films (DGT) have been recognized as a suitable tool to assess in situ metal bioavailability in soils. Mine tailings have some singular characteristics such as high heavy-metal concentrations, low pH, or absence of water retention capacity that may compromise the correct application of this technique whose applicability is known to be pH dep...

This study was conducted to assess the effectiveness of phytoremediation on a tailing dam located in Shimen County, Hunan Province. Quadrat survey method was employed to investigate and sample the dominant plant species growing on the rehabilitated tailing dam. The fertilities of the soils were assessed, and concentrations of arsenic and other heavy metals in the plant and soil samples were mea...

This paper investigates the impact of service quality in e-tailing on site visits and consumer demand (approximated by the last-clickthrough concept). We use a large representative data set obtained from a price-comparison site which covers most of the national (Austrian) market on e-tailing. Customers’ valuations for a broad range of 15 different service characteristics are condensed by factor...

electrokinetic remediation is one of the most promising in situ or ex situ processes for decontamination of heavy metals, anions and polar organic compositions from the soil. in this study, we investigated the efficacy of this method in removing mercury from clayey soil (with kaolin to sand weight ratio of 2:1) and from gold mine tailing dam sediment and determined optimum removal conditions. t...

Moloney murine leukemia virus reverse transcriptase (MMLV-RT) is a widely used enzyme for cDNA synthesis. Here we show that MMLV-RT has a strong template-independent polymerase activity using blunt DNA ends as substrate that generates 3' overhangs of A, C, G, or T. Nucleotides were appended efficiently in the order A > G > T > C, and tail lengths varied from 4 to 5, 2 to 7, 2 to 4, and 2 to 3 f...