The term`resources' is used in many ways in different disciplines. For purposes of this paper, a resource is an essential input to the economic process. Resources may be material or immaterial (e.g. information) and material resources may be of natural origin or man-made. Services provided by nature (e.g. `assimilative capacity') are also sometimes called resources. However, in this paper, the ...

The well-being and survival of dialysis patients not only depend on the removal of waste products and excess fluid, but also on the prevention of cardiovascular complications by maintaining normovolaemia and adequate blood pressure and avoidance of ectopic calcification. Also, the maintenance of nutritional status and adequate removal of middle molecules are amongst the most important issues in...

Bacillus thuringiensis var. israelensis (B. t. i.) is being widely used in mosquito control programs. However, the large-scale production of this bacillus is expensive due to the high cost of the production medium. In this study, we attempted to develop a cost-effective medium, based on a locally available raw material namely coconut water which is available in plenty as waste product from coco...

We analyse the impact of news on five financial markets in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland using a newly constructed data set in a GARCH framework. Macroeconomic shocks (on GDP, inflation rate, current account and trade balance) are constructed as deviations from expected values. EMU-related political and fiscal news is captured as news dummies. Macroeconomic shocks significantly affect ...

Allergies and food sensitivities can both be considered as "adverse reactions individualistic" to food. Are pathological and individual forms because they affect a few individuals in way rather serious; immediate or delayed reactions occur instead with simple effects histamine, or, in severe cases with respiratory and anaphylactic shock The eggplant (Solanum melongena L.) is known to cause food...

Rapid increase in construction activities has resulted in shortage of conventional construction materials.In the present scenario, the high cost of conventional building materials is a major factor affecting housing delivery in the world.This has necessitated research into alternative materials of construction.The effective housing techniques deal with reduction in cost of construction as well ...

A case is presented in which numerous mitotic figures were found in the liver, pancreas, and adrenal glands of a patient who died in uraemia due to acute tubular necrosis. The possibilities of the failure of excretion of a waste product acting as a stimulus to mitosis, or that a mitotic stimulant is released from the acutely ischaemic kidney, are suggested.

The artificial kidney was first used successfully by Dr Wilhem Kolff in the Netherlands, during the Second World War. At the end of the War he published his results,' and gave three of his machines to centres abroad. One was given to Hammersmith Hospital in London, leading to great interest in kidney diseases there. Dr Graham Bull (later Sir Graham) one of the group ofyoung men working there, w...

This overview is focused on the bilirubin molecule and its important biological properties. For a long time, bilirubin has been considered a waste product of heme catabolism with potential toxic effects especially on the central nervous system. However, bilirubin has attracted the attention of scientists because of its protective effects. Mildly elevated plasma bilirubin levels are associated w...

There is an urgent need to develop technologies that use renewable energy to convert waste products such as carbon dioxide into hydrocarbon fuels. Carbon dioxide can be electrochemically reduced to hydrocarbons over copper catalysts, although higher efficiency is required. We have developed oxidized copper catalysts displaying lower overpotentials for carbon dioxide electroreduction and record ...