Particulate matter accumulated on tree bark specimens was examined in order to investigate its potential use as a natural monitor to study the impact on local atmospheric conditions. Tree bark from sargent cherry (Prunus sargentii) and sugar maple (Acer saccharum Marsh) trees was collected from four locations: Drax (North Yorkshire), Darley Dale (Derbyshire), Galway (Ireland) and Tristan da Cun...

Lentil (Lens culinaris Medik), a nutritious traditional pulse crop, has been experiencing a declining area of production in South East Asia, due to lower yields, and marginal soils. The objective of this study was to determine whether selenium (Se) fertilization can increase lentil yield, productivity, and seed quality (both seed Se concentration and speciation). Selenium was provided to five l...

Azolla is an aquatic plant that has the potential to be used as animal feed due its high nutritive value and very productive plant. Thus, objectives of this study are determine compare nutrient mineral composition pinnata microphylla. A. microphylla plants have a introduced new alternative supplement ruminants. Samples were collected at Ladang Lembah Kaprima Hulu Seladang, Tenox Agribusiness (M...

Element and mineral associations are fundamental parameters for palaeoceanographical reconstructions but laboratory methodologies expensive, time-consuming need a lot of material. Here, we investigate the quality reliability XRF measurements major elements (Fe, Ti Ca) using BTX II Benchtop, by comparing them with previous ICP-OES elemental analysis set Late Pleistocene marine sediments from Cam...

In the context of restrictions due to sanctions imposed, a key factor in country's development is new Russian high-tech materials and their production technologies. The study ash slag waste from Kemerovo State District Power Plant was carried out this work using methods inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP-OES) mass (ICP-MS). It has been established that matrix elements...

Friedreich ataxia (FA) is an autosomal recessive disease with a complex neurological phenotype, but the most common cause of death is heart failure. This study presents a systematic analysis of 15 fixed and 13 frozen archival autopsy tissues of FA hearts and 10 normal controls (8 frozen) by measurement of cardiomyocyte hypertrophy; tissue frataxin assay; X-ray fluorescence (XRF) of iron (Fe) an...