Scorpion venom is a rich source of biomolecules, which can perturb physiological activity of the host on envenomation and may also have a therapeutic potential. Scorpion venoms produced by the columnar cells of venom gland are complex mixture of mucopolysaccharides, neurotoxic peptides and other components. This study was aimed at cataloguing the elemental composition of venoms obtained from me...

Consumers must regulate the elemental composition of body tissue at ratios that differ from those of their food. This problem of elemental homeostasis is especially acute for herbivores for which elemental composition of food does not equal that of the consumer and changes widely throughout the lifespan. We extend work of Sterner [1] and Frost & Elser [2] using a dynamic model of homeostatic co...

Co-combustion of chicken litter with coal was performed in a laboratory-scale fluidized bed combustor to investigate the effect of chicken litter addition on the partitioning behavior of mercury. Gaseous total and elemental mercury concentrations in the flue gas were measured online, and ash was analyzed for particlebound mercury along with other elemental and surface properties. The mercury ma...

In this paper, we present a recognition method for a 3D object in scattering media by using the axially distributed sensing (ADS) method and nonlinear correlation operation. Since the scatter noise for a 3D object is recorded into the elemental images by ADS method, we apply a statistical image-processing algorithm to convert the scattering elemental images into the scatter-reduced ones. After ...