Chlorine oxidation followed by treatment with activated carbon was studied as a possible method for removing radioactive iodine from water. Chlorination time, chlorine dose, the presence of natural organic matter (NOM), the presence of bromide ion (Br⁻), and carbon particle size strongly affected iodine removal. Treatment with superfine powdered activated carbon (SPAC) after 10-min oxidation wi...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW The study aims to describe the evidence-based management and controversies in blunt splenic trauma. RECENT FINDINGS A shift from operative management to non-operative management (NOM) has occurred over the past decades where NOM has now become the standard of care in haemodynamically stable patients with blunt splenic injury. Splenic artery embolisation (SAE) is generally be...

Un modèle de bandit à K bras est un ensemble de K lois de probabilités ν1, . . . , νK , appelées bras, avec lesquelles un agent, ignorant les caractéristiques de ces bras, interagit. A chaque instant t, ce dernier choisit un bras At et observe une récompense Xt tirée sous la loi du bras choisi : Xt ∼ νAt . L’objectif de l’agent est d’adopter une stratégie de tirages des bras maximisant l’espéra...

Hitherto, the Malaconothridae contained Malaconothrus Berlese, 1904 and Trimalaconothrus Berlese, 1916, defined by the possession of one pre-tarsal claw (monodactyly) or by three claws (tridactyly) respectively. However, monodactyly is a convergent apomorphy within the Oribatida and an unreliable character for a classification. Therefore we undertook a phylogenetic analysis of 102 species as th...

As water scarcity intensifies, point-of-use and point-of-entry treatment may provide a means of exploiting locally available water resources that are currently considered to be unsafe for human consumption. Among the different classes of drinking water contaminants, toxic trace elements (e.g., arsenic and lead) pose substantial operational challenges for distributed drinking water treatment sys...

In situ capping of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated sediments with a layer of activated carbon has been proposed, but several questions remain regarding the long-term effectiveness of this remediation strategy. Here, we assess the degree to which kinetic limitations, size exclusion effects, and electrostatic repulsions impaired PCB sorption to activated carbon. Sorption of 11 PCB con...

Abstract The purpose of this study is determining the significance effect social performance on Islamic commercial banks in Indonesia for 2013-2018 period. This using quantitative method which analyzes numeric data. subjects are 11 Commercial Banks Indonesia. data used secondary collected from financial reports published by each these and related institutions such as Financial Services Authorit...

Rationale: 31 P magnetization saturation transfer (MST) experiment is the most widely used method to study ATP metabolism kinetics. However, its lengthy data acquisition time greatly limits the wide biomedical applications in vivo, especially for studies requiring high spatial and temporal resolutions. Objective: We aimed to develop a novel superfast MST method that can accurately quantify ATP ...

The authors present an agent-based stochastic simulation model of NOM transformations and its implementation using Java/Swarm. An autonomic self-manageable infrastructure is designed to facilitate remote invocation of simulations, analysis and reports of the resulting large simulation datasets. The NOM simulation system may be useful in many areas including chemistry, geology, microbial ecology...

This work describes how we used AnCora-Nom, a Spanish nominalization lexicon, to extend NomLex-PT, a lexical resource for Portuguese, originally based on the English NomLex lexicon and fully integrated to OpenWordNet-PT, our freely available Portuguese WordNet. The complete Spanish lexicon, which contains 1,655 entries, was translated to Portuguese and then compared to our previous data. Furthe...