Commercial charbroiling emissions are a significant source of ambient particulate matter (PM) in urban settings. The objective of this study was to determine whether organic extract of PM emissions from commercial charbroiling meat operations could induce an inflammatory response in human bronchial epithelial cells and whether this effect was mediated by oxidative stress. PM samples were collec...

we prove that the class of profinite groups $g$ that have a factorization $g=ab$ with $a$ and $b$ abelian closed subgroups, is closed under taking strict projective limits. this is a generalization of a recent result by k.h.~hofmann and f.g.~russo. as an application we reprove their generalization of iwasawa's structure theorem for quasihamiltonian pro-$p$ groups.

Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is associated with human malignancies, especially those affecting the B cell compartment such as Burkitt lymphoma. The virally encoded homolog of the mammalian pro-survival protein Bcl-2, BHRF1 contributes to viral infectivity and lymphomagenesis. In addition to the pro-apoptotic BH3-only protein Bim, its key target in lymphoid cells, BHRF1 also binds a selective sub-se...

The pro-health and pro-environmental assets of organic farming are a reason why this system is now promoted in agriculture. objective the research was to determine effect conventional crop production (potato, oat, spring vetch) on yield, water erosion, losses NPK nutrients, LAI, infiltration, fresh mass earthworms. From 2019 2021, two-factor field experiment carried out at Mountain Experimental...

An organic solvent tolerant lipase gene from Staphylococcus epidermidis AT2 was successfully cloned and expressed with pTrcHis2 in E. coli TOP10. Sequence analysis revealed an open reading frame (ORF) of 1,933 bp in length which coded for a polypeptide of 643 amino acid residues. The polypeptide comprised of a signal peptide (37 amino acids), pro-peptide and a mature protein of 390 amino acids....

This paper evaluates the behavioral spillover effect of organic waste sorting on households’ reduction. We use an administrative household-level dataset residential from a Swedish municipality. To identify effects, we utilize natural experiment triggered by staggered implementation policy that introduced home-based bins. find substantial positive The effect, however, disappears over time.

One of the goals of organic crop production is to grow species which combinetraditional pro-healthy properties, innovative cultivation practices and harmonywith the environment. Among the ancient species the spring spelt is especiallypredisposed for organic farming. In comparison with common wheat spring spelthas a relatively short research history on physiological analysis of growth anddevelop...

Several papers in a Special Issue of Sustainability have recently discussed various aspects to evaluate whether organic farming and gene manipulation are compatible. A special emphasis was given to new plant breeding techniques (NPBTs). These new approaches allow the most predictable genetic alterations of crop plants in ways that the genetically modified plant is identical to a plant generated...