We report on the metagenome of a deep subsurface aquifer in the Tomsk region of Russia, sampled via an oil exploration borehole drilled to a depth of 2.8 km. Methanogenic archaea were present in the water along with members of various bacterial phyla, including Firmicutes, Chloroflexi, Bacteroidetes, Ignavibacteriae, and uncultured candidate divisions.

Iron (Fe) and aluminum (Al) hydroxides are highly reactive components in environmental processes, such as contaminant fate and transport. Phosphorus (P) sorption by these components can decrease environmental problems associated with excess accumulation of P in soils. The long-term stability of P sorbed by Fe/Al hydroxides is of major concern. Synthetic Fe and Al hydroxides coprecipitated with ...

Correspondence address: Carlos Alberto Cordeiro Abreu Filho. Av. Dr. Enéas de Carvalho Aguiar, 44. 2°andar. Cerqueira César. São Paulo, SP. CEP: 05403-001. Tel: (11) 3069-5014. E-mail: [email protected] Carlos Alberto Cordeiro de ABREU FILHO1, Luiz Augusto Ferreira LISBOA1, Luís Alberto Oliveira DALLAN1, Sérgio Almeida de OLIVEIRA1 Braz J Cardiovasc Surg 2005; 20(2): 167-173 REVIEW ARTICLE

The Atlantic forest is a terrestrial biome that extends along the Brazilian coast and has been subject of intense deforestation for decades. There are presently several efforts to try to preserve the flora and fauna of what remains from this region (e.g., Coco et al. 2014, Maciel-Silva et al. 2014, Missagia et al. 2014), but several questions on how the distinct floristic units of this biome ar...

A novel BRST quantization is described, which is applied in generalizing the JackiwNair construction of anyon. We have explicitly shown that the matter states connected to an unconventional ("non-zero") BRST ghost sector are physical. They are identi ed to the Jackiw-Nair system in a particular gauge. Also for the rst time an indepth analysis of the present kind for a reducible constraint syste...

Koho Akimaru, Yasuhiko Iino, Seiichi Matsunobu, Shuyou Hayama, Yoshio ledokoro, Kiichirou Uchiyama, Masafumi Hioki, Shinji Matsushima, Akirou Terashi, Tasuku Shoji, Tsuyoshi Kobayashi, Michiko Yokoyama, Nobutaka Yamada4 and Kouji Matsumoto The Second Department of Surgery, Nippon Medical School First Hospital The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Nippon Medical School First Hospital Depar...

We provide accounts of four species of Synelmis Chamberlin, 1919 (Annelida: Phyllodocida: Pilargidae) from Australian and adjacent seas, including one new species, S. sergi sp. nov. The only previous, positively identified, record of a Synelmis species in the region, S. gibbsi Salazar-Vallejo, 2003, has been checked and the specimens re-identified here as S. knoxi Glasby, 2003, which extends th...

5 eceived April 9, 2003; evised and accepted ugust 7, 2003. resented in part at the 9th Annual Meeting of the uropean Society of uman Reproduction and mbryology in Madrid, pain, June 29–July 2, 003. eprint requests: Flávio arcia Oliveira, M.D., lı́nica e Centro de esquisa em Reprodução umana “Roger bdelmassih,” Rua aestro Elias Lobo, 805, ão Paulo 01433-000, razil (FAX: 55-118858605; E-mail: avi...

The objective of this study was to identify claw lesions causing clinical lameness in lactating Holstein Frisian (HF) crossbred cows in dairy cattle. Seventy dairy farmers were interviewed at the monthly meetings of Progressive Dairy Farmers Association of Ludhiana, Punjab, India. Ten dairy farms were randomly selected as per probability proportional to size and a total of 450 lactating HF cros...

There is little empirical evidence to indicate that dairy cow live weight affects the extent of soil damage at the hoof-soil interface during grazing on poorly drained permanent grassland. In the present study the impact of Holstein-Friesian (HF) dairy cows with a mean (±standard deviation) live weight of 570 (±61) kg were compared with Jersey × Holstein-Friesian (JX) with a mean live weight of...