To assess the overall metabolic alteration of organic pollutants through biological systems in the environment, the basic characteristics of metabolic systems in microorganisms, plants, and animals have been examined. While most of their metabolic activities contribute to reduce the levels of pollutant residues and their toxicities, certain of their activities result in the formation of stable,...

Usually a Riemannian geometry is considered to be the most general geometry, which could be used as a space-time geometry. In fact, any Riemannian geometry is a result of some deformation of the Euclidean geometry. Class of these Riemannian deformations is restricted by a series of unfounded constraints. Eliminating these constraints, one obtains a more wide class of possible space-time geometr...

The fetal origins hypothesis, or Barker hypothesis, is both stimulating and challenging for evolutionary human biologists. While evidence of a correlation between conditions around the time of birth and later health outcomes has been presented before, the more recent evidence of a connection between fetal growth and chronic disease risk later in life has attracted considerable attention among e...

In this study, a bioremediation approach was evaluated for the decontamination of an aquifer affected by release organohalides industrial landfill. After preliminary physicochemical and microbiological characterization landfill groundwater, stimulation natural organohalide respiration addition reducing substrate (i.e., molasse) tested both at microcosm field scales, placement anaerobic permeabl...