Lac Pavin is a meromictic maar lake for which the interpretation of sediment radiocarbon dates is complicated by the existence of a largely undefined reservoir effect resulting from degradation of carbon stored in the bottom layer of the water column. A data set of the contemporary 14C distribution of dissolved and particulate organic pools in the water column is presented to address this issue...

Medical treatment of pulmonary Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) disease does not always provide curative effects and is frequently hampered by recurrence. This suggests the presence of a reservoir for MAC in the environment surrounding patients. We previously reported the recovery of MAC isolates from the residential bathrooms of outpatients. In the present study, to ascertain the colonizing s...

A mathematical model is presented for calculating the change in volume and sand-bypassing rate at ebb-tidal shoals. Conceptually and mathematically, the ebb-tidal shoal is distinguished from bypassing bars that emerge from it and from attachment bars where the bypassing bars merge with the beach. The volumes and bypassing rates of these morphologic entities are calculated by analogy to a reserv...

Forensic DNA analysis of sexual assault evidence requires separation of DNA from epithelial (victim) and sperm (perpetrator) cells. The conventional method used by crime laboratories, which is termed "differential extraction", is a time-consuming process. To supplant the conventional process, separation of sperm from a biological mixture containing epithelial cells has been demonstrated on a mi...

Large volumes of naturally jointed Precambrian crystalline rock can be stably maintained at pressures considerably above the least principal earth stress in the surrounding rock mass. At Los Alamos National Laboratory’s Fenton Hill hot dry rock (HDR) geothermal test site, tests carried out for a cumulative period of 11 months in the deeper and larger of the two HDR reservoirs showed no evidence...

Thermal end effects on electroosmotic flow in a capillary are numerically investigated in this paper. The model accounts for the dynamic coupling effects of Joule heating on the temperature field, the electrical double layer field, the applied electric potential field and the flow field in the full capillary from reservoir to reservoir. These fields are strongly coupled via temperature dependen...

— Grey Herons foraged in a high number only in one of three preferred foraging areas in the Dobczyce Reservoir, S. Poland: (1) the backwater area at the main tributary inlet (MTI), (2) the shore of the near-dam pool (NDP), and (3) shallow lateral bay (SLB). Median value of the fraction of herons foraging in MTI was 64% of all counted in the reservoir in 2001-2002 despite the smallest fish densi...

We have investigated the thermocapillary flow of a Newtonian liquid on hydrophilic microstripes which are lithographically defined on a hydrophobic surface. The speed of the microstreams is studied as a function of the stripe width w, the applied thermal gradient udT/dxu and the liquid volume V deposited on a connecting reservoir pad. Numerical solutions of the flow speed as a function of downs...

The planning and design of a sustainable reservoir require the accurate prediction of flow and sediment deposition patterns. Numerical simulation of flow in reservoirs is important in order to determine the detailed flow pattern. This typically includes flow separation at the inlet, accompanied by recirculation and stagnation regions. The aim of the present paper is to study the influence of th...

Saguling Reservoir is one of the reservoirs built in Citarum Watershed which quite polluted, and has a potential to contain heavy metals (such as Pb). The Pb will be concentrated body catfish (Pangasius djambal) commonly cultured reservoir long term accumulate. Liver an organ that accumulates most so it cause damage form necrosis, fibrosis, cirrhosis. This study aims analyze content liver its e...