BACKGROUND/AIM Among various kidney disease models, there are few rat glomerulonephritis (GN) models that develop in a short time, and with mainly glomerular lesions. Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF)-1alpha is a transcriptional factor that induces genes supporting cell survival, but the involvement of HIF-1alpha in attenuating the progression of GN remains to be elucidated. We developed a new mod...

Palladium nanoparticles (PdNPs) were conveniently prepared in tetraglyme (TG) solution using a variety of palladium precursors. At 140 °C, TG promoted Pd(3)(OAc)(6) to produce irregular shaped PdNPs with an average size of 4 nm. When these PdNPs were re-dispersed in TG and used for the dehydrogenation of ammonia borane (AB) at 85 °C, remarkably enhanced catalytic performance was achieved to rel...

The regional evaluation of monitoring stations for water resources can be of great importance due to its role in finding appropriate locations for stations, the maximum gathering of useful information and preventing the accumulation of unnecessary information and ultimately reducing the cost of data collection. Based on the theory of discrete entropy, this study analyzes the density of rain gag...

In studying the hydro-ecological conditions in northwestern Sichuan of southwestern China, an area at the edge of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, stream waters were extensively sampled and analyzed for the stable hydrogen and oxygen isotope ratios (  H and  18 O) which are often excellent indicators for a water body genesis and evolvement. The heavy isotopes of hydrogen and oxygen were found to b...

The 400,000 km Volta Basin is an international basin covering almost 28% of the West Coast. Basin of Africa. It extends from longitude 5 30 W to 2 00E and from latitude 5 30 N to 14 30 N and is shared by the six West African countries Benin, Togo, Ghana, La Cote d’Ivoire, Burkina Faso and Mali. The water resources of this basin are under severe stress due to both human and natural causes. High ...