The objective was to determine the spatial-temporal distribution of total mercury (T-Hg) bioavailability at the Goiana Estuary using Anomalocardia brasiliana as model organism. Two seasons (rainy in February and dry in August), three habitats of the tidal flats (upper, middle and lower) and two size classes (<20 mm and >20 mm) were considered. In addition, depurated and non-depurated samples we...

An often overlooked problem in the use of radiotracers is the possibility of isotopic contamination. Commercially available silver 110mAg was used to study silver uptake and depuration in rainbow trout and European eel. Quality control by means of comparative gamma and beta counting brought our attention to a contamination of the 110mAg stock with 109Cd, which could be seen only because the 109...

Twenty-eight incapacitated individuals (average 43 years old, 7 males, 21 females, range 12-70) exposed to molds and mycotoxins were studied and treated with a protocol of cleaning up or changing their environment to be mold free. Injections of the optimum dose of antigens were given as part of the treatment protocol as was oral and intravenous (i.v.) antioxidants; heat depuration (sauna); phys...

This paper proposes a validation method for the design of a CPU on which, in parallel with the development of the CPU, it is also manually described a testbench that performs automated testing on the instructions that are being described. The testbench consists of the original program memory of the CPU and it is also coupled to the internal registers, PORTS, stack and other components related t...

Materials and Methods Prospective multicenter-study in 34 Spanish ICUs covering a 4-month period (from December 15th, 2012 to March 15th, 2013). Research endorsed by the Spanish Society of Intensive, Critical and Emergency Care Medicine (SEMICYUC). From 1035 initial cases, exclusion criteria of uncompleted demography data and renal depuration yielded a final total of 1012 patients. CA-AKI is de...

Microscopic plastic debris is emerging as a global conservation issue. Ingestion of microplastics has been demonstrated in a range of marine animals both in the laboratory and in the oceans, but we know little of how microplastics may be transferred across trophic levels. Here, we used mussels (Mytilus edulis) and crabs (Carcinus maenas) to investigate the bioaccumulation and trophic transfer o...

BACKGROUND Typhoid fever remains endemic in the Apulia region of southern Italy. Here we investigate why this occurs despite increasing levels of environmental public health measures. METHOD We collected morbidity data for typhoid fever in the Puglia region of Italy in the years 2000 to 2006 from the national mandatory surveillance system for infectious disease. RESULTS In the last six year...