Lake Mariut has suffered over the years from the untreated sewage, agricultural and industrial wastes dumped into it. Lake Mariut fish quality and quantity were adversely affected eventually being unfit for human consumption due to its poor water quality. The present study was carried out to evaluate the levels of metals in the fish caught from Lake Mariut main basin and its fitness for human c...

Introduction Familial Mediterranean Fever(FMF) is an autoinflammatory disease particularly frequent around the Mediterranean basin. Behçet disease (BD) is a autoinflammatory disease which distribution is mainly around the Mediterranean Sea, Middle East and Far East.Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the brain that affects people in every country of the world.It is characterized by recurrent seiz...

HbO-Arab emerged about 2,000 years on a rare haplotype, characteristic of the Greek Pomaks. Its frequency increased as a consequence of high genetic drift within this population, and it was dispersed throughout the Mediterranean basin and Middle East with minor variations of its haplotypic pattern.

A sequence of amorphous iron r>xide-rich sediments, interbedded with iron-free calcareous nannoplankton oozes, occurs in the basal zones of Sites 74 and 75 of the Deep Sea Drilling Project, immediately overlying basalt. These sediments have affinities with iron and manganeserich sediments previously described from the crest of the East Pacific Rise. It is considered most likely that this sedime...

Endothelial cells form a multifunctional cell lining that covers all of the inner surface of blood vessels and regulates several important physiological and pathological reactions. These include inflammation/immune reaction, blood vessel tonus, hemostasis/thrombosis, angiogenesis and so on. Behçet’s Disease (BD) is a chronic, relapsing, multisystemic disorder characterized by urogenital ulcers ...

A drought index analytical method based on a relative moisture index was used to evaluate meteorological data between 1958 and 2012 and study the temporal variation, spatial distribution, and sub-regional evolution characteristics of spring drought in Southwest China. The results showed a decreasing frequency of spring drought in the West Sichuan Plateau, Southwest Sichuan Upland, and Yunnan Pl...

A variety of N2-fixers occur in oligotrophic waters and these diazotrophs make a substantial contribution to the nitrogen budget of the upper water column. A synthesis of previously published and new rate measurements for the North Atlantic provides insight into the role of two different groups of N2-fixers (Trichodesmium and small diazotrophs) in supporting N2 fixation in the tropical Atlantic...

the present article is a review of a palaeobiogeographic analysis of jurassic ostracods from east africa, india and madagascar and includes also some general remarks on palaeobiogeography, biodiversity and ostracod ecology.the palaeobiogeographic study shows the high significance of this microfossil group for the reconstruction of palaeogeographic processes, particularly plate tectonic developm...

SHALEHILLS, PA CZO Snow FLUX-­‐PIHM(LSM) Age Isotope Transport Carbon Cycle LITTLE JUNIATA, PA CZO Ecology/Wetland FLUX-­‐PIHM(LSM) SHAVERS CREEK, PA CZO Ecology/Wetland LACKAWANNA RIVER, PA Ecology/Wetland MAHANTANGO CREEK, PA Ecology/Wetland MUDDY CREEK, PA Ecology/Wetland YOUNG WOMAN CREEK, PA CZO Ecology/Wetland JUNIATA RIVER BASIN, PA Parallel computa>on Large watershed applica>on WHITE CL...

We investigate the evolutionary history of the wide-ranging Nearctic treefrog Hyla arenicolor through the integration of extensive range-wide sampling, phylogenetic analyses of multilocus genetic data, and divergence dating. Previous phylogeographic studies of this frog documented a potential signature of introgressive hybridization from an ecologically and morphologically divergent sister spec...