The pharmacokinetics aspects of levofloxacin were studied in healthy and experimentally renal damaged Muscovy ducks after single intravenous (IV) and oral (PO) dose of 10 mg kg(-1) bwt. Following IV administration, elimination half-life (t 1/2( β )) and mean residence time (MRT) were longer in renal damaged ducks than in healthy ones. Total clearance (Cltot) in renal damaged ducks (0.20 L kg(-1...

[1] Estimates of mean residence time (MRT) are increasingly used as simple summary descriptors of the hydrological processes involving storage and mixing of water within catchment systems. Current understanding of the physical controls on MRT remains limited, and various hypotheses have been proposed to explain its variability between catchments. We present a series of virtual experiments to in...

Evaluating biochars for their persistence in soil under field conditions is an important step towards their implementation for carbon sequestration. Current evaluations might be biased because the vast majority of studies are short-term laboratory incubations of biochars produced in laboratory-scale pyrolyzers. Here our objective was to investigate the stability of a biochar produced with a med...

Pyrogenic carbon (PyC) is an important component of the global soil carbon (C) pool, but its fate, persistence, and loss dynamics in contrasting soils and environments under planted field conditions are poorly understood. To fill this knowledge gap, a 13C-labelled biochar, as a surrogate material for PyC, produced from Eucalyptus saligna by slow pyrolysis (450°C; δ13C -36.7‰) was surface (0-10 ...

perhaps the more interesting nanostructures with large application potential, from transistors to probes, are carbon nanotubes. one of the most widely uses of these nanostructures are their applications as gas detector, which is an important application in the field se of environmental technologies. the present work studies the adsorption of carbon monoxide on a (6, 6) armchair carbon nanotube ...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Leaf longevity is controlled by the light gradient in the canopy and also by the nitrogen (N) sink strength in the plant. Stand density may influence leaf dynamics through its effects on light gradient and on plant growth and reproduction. This study tests the hypothesis that the control by the light gradient is manifested more in the vegetative period, whereas the opposite ...

Residence time is a critical factor in determining the size of an open face biofilter. Four test biofilters were constructed with media comprised of yard waste compost and brush chips to compare 8 s. and 4 s. residence time. Biofilter performance was monitored for ten months by measuring pressure drop, moisture content, odor threshold, hydrogen sulfide, and ammonia concentrations. Odor reductio...

0009-2614/$ see front matter 2010 Elsevier B.V. A doi:10.1016/j.cplett.2010.08.019 * Fax: +972 2 651 3742. E-mail address: [email protected] The residence time of a diffusing particle in a prescribed spatial region recently finds an increasing number of applications in physics and chemistry. A partial differential equation for the residence time moments is derived, as a generalization of the ...