2014 Some aspects of the thermodynamic state of CdTe crystals grown by different zone passing techniques (sealed ingot zone refining technique and THM in tellurium solvent) are considered with regard to the general objective of getting high resistivity crystals. A vapour growth technique, called sublimation THM, which reduces several drawbacks of classical THM using a tellurium solvent, is deve...

Economic challenges associated with noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) and the sociocultural outlook of many patients especially in Africa have increased dependence on traditional herbal medicines (THMs) for these diseases. A cross-sectional descriptive study designed to determine the prevalence of and reasons for THM use in the management of NCDs among South African adults was conducted in an urb...

Off-energy-shell effects in p - p scattering have been investigated at p - p relative energies from 600 down to 80 keV applying the Trojan horse method (THM) to the p + d --> p + p + n reaction at 5 MeV. In contrast with the on-energy-shell case, no Coulomb-nuclear interference minimum has been found in the extracted THM p - p cross section, due to the suppression of the Coulomb amplitude as pr...

Abstract The French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra) is in charge of studying the disposal high-level and intermediate-level long-lived waste (HLW ILW-LL) a deep geological repository (Cigéo project) within host formation Callovo-Oxfordian claystone (COx). heat emitted from packages induces thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupling structural elements rock. This study focuses o...

A combined process for temperature measurements in THM growth systems is described including the preparation of the source material as well as the liquid solution zone in one and the same ampoule. Using starting compositions with an excess of that component to act as the solvent the solution zone is formed during the travelling heater procedure. With thermocouples attached to the slightly modif...

Renin, a rate-limiting enzyme in the renin-angiotensin system, is regulated to maintain blood pressure homeostasis: renin gene expression in the kidney is suppressed in a hypertensive environment. We found that expression of a 15-kb human RENIN (hREN) transgene was aberrantly upregulated (>4.2-fold), while the endogenous mouse renin (mRen) gene was suppressed (>1.7-fold) in Tsukuba hypertensive...

Trihalomethane (THM) concentrations in blood and tap water were measured for 50 women living in two locations with different bromide concentrations and disinfectant types. Blood samples were taken from each woman early in the morning prior to any major water-use activity and again immediately after showering. Each residence was sampled for THMs in tap water prior to the woman's shower. Cobb Cou...

Within the context of deep geological radioactive waste disposal, French National Radioactive Waste Management Agency (Andra) is conducting a research program including in-situ experiments at Meuse/Haute-Marne Underground Research Laboratory (MHM URL), which aims to demonstrate feasibility constructing and operating High Level (HLW) disposal facility in Callovo-Oxfordian (COx) claystone formati...

A theorem of Dolfi, Herzog, Kaplan, and Lev \cite[Thm.~C]{DHKL} asserts that in a finite group with trivial Fitting subgroup, the size soluble residual is bounded from below by certain power order, inequality sharp. Inspired this result some arguments \cite{DHKL}, we establish following generalisation: if $\mathfrak{X}$ subgroup-closed formation full characteristic which does not contain all gr...

Around the world, coastal groundwater is increasingly subject to seawater intrusion (SWI). The quality and characteristics of such waters differ from those surface groundwater. In current study, trihalomethane (THM) formation under varying levels SWI, natural organic matter (NOM), chloride-to-bromide (Cl/Br) ratio was evaluated. Different SWI were simulated by mixing deionized water with real (...