1 Department of Interventional Cardiology – Cochin Hospital – Paris Descartes University – Paris, France. Correspondence: Christian Spaulding, MD. Department of Cardiology – Cochin Hospital and INSERM U 970 – Paris Descartes University – 27 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Jacques – 75014 – Paris, France. E-mail: [email protected] Received on: 13/11/2009 • Accepted on: 16/11/2009 In a movie ...

A linkage between Cd speciation in sediments and its bioaccumulation in edible oyster (Crassostrea sp.) from a tropical estuarine system was established. Bioaccumulation of Cd in edible oyster increased with the increasing lability and dissociation rate constants of Cd-sediment complexes in the bottom sediments. Total Cd concentration in sediment was not a good indicator of Cd-bioavailability. ...

Storm water overflow from the combined sewer system might result in a sudden devastating impact to the local ecosystem in an urban river environment. In order to assess overflow pollution load during tropical rainfall, a web-based share vision modelling system is organized and designed in this study to investigate the resultant water quality impacts from both spatial and temporal aspects simult...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The coastal morphotype of bottlenose dolphin is continuously distributed along the Atlantic coast south of Long Island, New York, to the Florida peninsula, including inshore waters of bays, sounds and estuaries. Except for animals residing within the Southern North Carolina and Northern North Carolina Estuarine Systems (e.g., Waring et al. 2007), estuarine ...

STOCK DEFINITION AND GEOGRAPHIC RANGE The coastal morphotype of bottlenose dolphin is continuously distributed along the Atlantic coast south of Long Island, New York, to the Florida peninsula, including inshore waters of bays, sounds and estuaries. Except for animals residing within the Southern North Carolina and Northern North Carolina Estuarine Systems (e.g., Waring et al. 2007), estuarine ...

Riju C. Issac S. S. Harilal Geetha K. Varier C. V. Bindhu V. P. N. Nampoori C. P. G. Vallabhan Cochin University of Science and Technology International School of Photonics Laser Division Cochin 682 022, India Abstract. Pulsed photoacoustic studies in solutions of C70 in toluene are made using the 532-nm radiation from a frequency-doubled Nd:YAG laser. It is found that contrary to expectation, ...

Over the past three decades heavy metal pollution has increased substantially in Cochin estuary, south west coast of India. Here we studied the distribution, diversity and enzyme expression profile of culturable microbial population along a pollution gradient. The distribution of resistance against 5 mM concentration of Zn, Co, Ni and Cu was observed among 90-100% of bacterial isolates retrieve...

Heavy metal pollution is of particular concern as they have deleterious effects on biota through mobilization and accumulation in various trophic levels. The present study mainly focused on the water pollution by heavy metals in Cochin estuary and two adjoining rivers. The methods include seasonal collection of surface water from the study area and their subsequent heavy metal analysis. The stu...