The arsenic contamination of aquifers has been linked to the input of dissolved organic matter (DOM). In light of this suggestion, the aim of this study was to quantify chemical effects of DOM on desorption and redox transformations of arsenic bound to synthetic iron oxide and natural samples from different geochemical environments (soils, shallow aquifer, lake sediment). In batch experiments, ...

Terrestrial dissolved organic matter (DOM) undergoes significant changes during the estuarine transport from river mouths to the open sea. These include transformations and degradation by biological and chemical processes, but also the production of fresh organic matter. Since many of these processes occur simultaneously, properties of the DOM pool represent the net changes during the passage a...

The relationship between the bioavailability of dissolved organic matter (DOM) and its bulk chemical composition was examined on three dates at 10 sites on the Ogeechee River, a blackwater river in Georgia, Samples of riverine DOM were concentrated from filtered river water using reverse osmosis. In addition, particulate organic matter (POM), in the form of leaf litter, algae, and macrophytes, ...

In the presence of iron (Fe), dissolved organic matter (DOM) may bind considerable amounts of arsenic (As), through formation of Fe-bridged As-Fe-DOM complexes and surface complexation of As on DOM-stabilized Fe-colloids (collectively referred to as As-Fe-DOM complexation). However, direct (e.g., chromatographic and spectroscopic) evidence and fundamental kinetic and stability constants have be...

The following propositions are true: (1) Let n, m be natural numbers, a be a function from [: Segn, Segm :] into R, and p, q be finite sequences of elements of R. Suppose that (i) dom p = Seg n, (ii) for every natural number i such that i ∈ dom p there exists a finite sequence r of elements of R such that dom r = Segm and p(i) = ∑ r and for every natural number j such that j ∈ dom r holds r(j) ...

The articles [20], [21], [6], [7], [22], [8], [3], [1], [4], [14], [13], [19], [16], [9], [2], [5], [10], [17], [11], [18], [12], and [15] provide the notation and terminology for this paper. Let f be a partial function from C to C. The functor <(f) yielding a partial function from C to R is defined as follows: (Def. 1) dom f = dom<(f) and for every complex number z such that z ∈ dom<(f) holds ...

As a preliminary study of the influence of urban organic matter on the bioavailability of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), the effect of different types of dissolved organic matter (DOM) on the bioaccumulation of fluoranthene, pyrene, or benzo[a]pyrene in Daphnia magna was studied. Commercial humic substances, DOM from the aeration basin of a wastewater treatment plant, and highly biode...

Major fraction of marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) is biologically recalcitrant, however, the accumulation mechanism of recalcitrant DOM has not been fully understood. Here, we examine the distributions of humic-like fluorescent DOM, factions of recalcitrant DOM, and the level of apparent oxygen utilization in the Japan Sea. We find linear relationships between these parameters for the dee...

Since XML becomes a crucial format for representing information, it is necessary to establish techniques for managing XML documents. A possible solution can be found in storing XML data in (object-)relational databases. For this purpose most of the existing techniques often exploit an XML schema of the stored XML data, usually expressed in DTD. But the more complex today’s applications are, the...

Respiration of dissolved organic matter (DOM) in streams contributes to the global CO2 efflux, yet this efflux has not been linked specific DOM sources and their respective uptake rates. Further, removal inferred from longitudinal concentration gradients river networks insufficient account for observed outgassing. We hypothesize that understanding in-stream dynamics DOM, which is a heterogeneou...