postpartum depression (ppd) is a major depressive disorder that most often emerges within 6 to 12 weeks of delivery, but can happen any time up to 1 year after birth. in developed countries, the incidence of postnatal depression is about 10-15% in adult women depending upon the diagnostic criteria, timing of screening and screening instruments used. mothers with depressive symptoms have been fo...

This work was undertaken to measure background silver in Illinois precipitation in the absence of any known seeding operations in or near Illinois. The overall rainfall-weighted mean concentration at several stations was 73 ng/liter. This is somewhat higher than has been found in unseeded precipitation in the western United States, but probably not high enough to preclude identification of silv...

The oceans are salty. Each litre contains about 35 g of dissolved salts, resulting from the balance between inputs and outputs to the ocean over geological time. The constituents of common salt—Na and Cl—make up more than 90% of this dissolved mass, and together with Mg, S and Ca, represent 99%. Add only three more elements— K, Br and C—and you have more than 999 parts in a 1000 of the dissolve...

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Constituents of coal combustion waste (CCW) expose aquatic organisms to complex mixtures of potentially toxic metals and metalloids. Multi-element trace element analyses were used to distinguish patterns of accumulation among 8 genera of dragonfly nymphs collected from two sites on a CCW contaminated coastal plain stream. Dragonfly nymphs are exceptional for comparing trace element accumulation...

As the result of establishment of brands for some farming districts in Japan, it is a big social issue that agricultural products of which geographical origins are camouflaged. To solve this problem, we have proposed a distributed system that identifies cultivated places of vegetables by using their trace element content as coresearch with agricultural chemists. This system records trace elemen...